2025-2026

Foodways in Dynastic Transition in Ancient China: Alcohol, Diet, and Identity from Shang to Zhou A talk by Jingbo Li ( American School of Prehistoric Research, Harvard University) This study investigates how foodways interacted with identity, labor, and...

Learning from the Experts:  Ethnoarchaeological insights on multi-species life-ways and mobile settlement among North and Inner Asian hunter-reindeer herders A talk by Henny Piezonka (Professor, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) In parts of the North and...

How to Fill a Circle - Design in Warring States Bronze, Jade, Lacquer, and Silk A talk by Haichen Wang (Mary and Cheney Cowles Endowed Professor, School of Art+Art History+Design, University of Washington, Seattle) New developments in the lacquer and silk...

A Study of Drilling Tools Used for Divination Oracle Bones in the Western Zhou Dynasty A talk by Tianyu Zhang (Peking University)

Living on China's Frontier: Settlements and Burials in the Eastern Tianshan Mountains A talk by Duo Tian (Northwest University)

An Archaeological History of the Kuril Islands in the context of Northeast Asian World Systems A talk by Ben Fitzhugh (University of Washington) This talk examines the 5000+ year history of human settlement of the remote and hazardous Kuril Archipelago...