# Past Speakers and Events [### Making Ties: The Cangdong Village Project Documentary Screening and Discussion ](/event/making-ties-cangdong-village-project-documentary-screening-and-discussion?occ_id=0)February 19, 2021 | 12:00PM - 2:00PM EST | VIRTUAL In Person The Harvard Asian Archaeology Seminar Series is hosting a documentary screening and panel discussion of Making Ties: The Cangdong Village Project. This transnational, interdisciplinary project developed to investigate the material practices of Cangdong... event [### AY 2020-2021 Welcome ](/event/ay-2020-2021-welcome?occ_id=0)September 15, 2020 | 6:00PM - 7:00PM EDT | VIRTUAL In Person First meeting of the Harvard Asian Archaeology Seminar, academic year 2020-2021. event [### Groundstone Tools and the Early Urbanization in Central China ](/event/groundstone-tools-and-early-urbanization-central-china?occ_id=0)February 25, 2020 | 12:00PM - 1:15PM EST | Tozzer Anthropology Building Rm. 203 In Person Groundstone Tools and the Early Urbanization in Central China A Talk by Dr. Shaodong Zhai (Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) event [### Community Archaeology in Boston: Digging Boston’s Chinatown ](/event/community-archaeology-boston-digging-bostons-chinatown?occ_id=0)January 29, 2020 | 12:00PM - 1:15PM EST | Tozzer Anthropology Building Rm. 203 In Person Community Archaeology in Boston: Digging Boston’s Chinatown A Talk by Joe Bagley (City of Boston Archaeology Office) event [### Why Pots (Don’t) Matter: Complexity in Bronze Age Eurasia ](/event/why-pots-dont-matter-complexity-bronze-age-eurasia?occ_id=0)December 4, 2019 | 1:15PM - 2:30PM EST | CGIS South S250 In Person Why Pots (Don’t) Matter: Complexity in Bronze Age Eurasia A Talk by Dr. Paula Dupuy (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan) event [### New Archaeological Research in Zhejiang Province ](/event/new-archaeological-research-zhejiang-province?occ_id=0)November 25, 2019 | 2:00PM - 5:00PM EST | Peabody 12 In Person Jade in Liangzhu Society A talk by Prof. Ye ZHAO (Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Archaeology) Economy of the Liangzhu Complex A talk by Dr. Minghui CHEN (Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Archaeology) Liangzhu and 'Primitive China' A talk by Prof. Xinwei... event [### Wittfogel Revisited: Was Ancient Shan-Shan a Hydraulic State? ](/event/wittfogel-revisited-was-ancient-shan-shan-hydraulic-state?occ_id=0)September 24, 2019 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | Tozzer Anthropology Building Rm. 203 In Person Wittfogel Revisited: Was Ancient Shan-Shan a Hydraulic State? A talk by Kasper Hanus (Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Culture, Polish Academy of Sciences) event [### AY 2019-2020 Get-Together Lunch ](/event/ay-2019-2020-get-together-lunch?occ_id=0)September 13, 2019 | 12:15PM - 2:00PM EDT | Peabody Museum Room 561 In Person Join us for a get-together lunch! Meet new and existing members of the Harvard Asian Archaeology Seminar series (HAAS). event [### Harvard-Yenching Mesoamerican Archaeology Training Program for East Asian Archaeologists ](/event/harvard-yenching-mesoamerican-archaeology-training-program-east-asian-archaeologists-0?occ_id=0)May 7, 2019 | 2:00PM EDT | Cambridge, MA In Person Participants: YANG Yifan (Shandong University), WEN Yadi (Chinese University, Hong Kong), JI Youngbae (Pusan National University), PARK Jiyoung (Seoul National University), YAGI Hiroyaki (Shiga University) and GE Yun (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences... event [### Eun Gyeng YANG (Pusan National University) ](/event/eun-gyeng-yang-pusan-national-university?occ_id=0)Apr 23, 2019 | 12:00PM EDT | Cambridge, MA In Person New Archaeological Discoveries: Palaces, Shilla Dynasty, Ancient Korea event [### Taijiasi Conference: New Archaeological and Archaeological Science Research at the Shang Period site of Taijiasi, Middle Huai River Valley, Anhui, China ](/event/taijiasi-conference-new-archaeological-and-archaeological-science-research-shang-period?occ_id=0)Apr 16, 2019 | 12:00AM EDT | Cambridge, MA In Person event [### Yinghua LI (Wuhan University) ](/event/yinghua-li-wuhan-university?occ_id=0)Apr 8, 2019 | 12:00AM EDT | Cambridge, MA In Person event [ More arrow\_circle\_right ](/calendar) ## Current Events [### "Stable Isotope Fractionations during Silk Production: Foundations for Interpretations of Isotope Signatures in Ancient Silk Textiles", a talk by Hong Yang (Bryant University) ](/event/stable-isotope-fractionations-during-silk-production-foundations-interpretations-isotope?occ_id=0)April 19, 2023 | 3:00PM - 4:30PM EDT | CGIS Knafel K262 In Person Please join the Harvard Asian Archaeology Seminar Series for a talk Wednesday, April 19 at 3:00 PM. "Stable Isotope Fractionations during Silk Production: Foundations for Interpretations of Isotope Signatures in Ancient Silk Textiles" by Hong Yang (Vice... [### Harvard Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk, "Ancient Cultural and Diplomatic Relations of Funan with China and India: An Assessment of Early Texts and Recent Archaeological Discoveries," by Phan Anh Tu ](/event/harvard-yenching-institute-visiting-scholar-talk-ancient-cultural-and-diplomatic?occ_id=0)March 30, 2023 | 11:00AM - 1:00PM EDT | Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA In Person Harvard Asian Archaeology Seminar participants may be interested in the following Harvard Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk: "Ancient Cultural and Diplomatic Relations of Funan with China and India: An Assessment of Early Texts and Recent... [### Anthropology Department Seminar Series, "Deciphering horses: horse use and horse selection in the first millennium BC China," a talk by Li Yue (Northwest University) ](/event/anthropology-department-seminar-series-deciphering-horses-horse-use-and-horse-selection?occ_id=0)March 9, 2023 | 3:00PM - 4:15PM EST | Tozzer 203 In Person [### Workshop, "Cognitive Art History—What Makes the Color Red?" ](/event/workshop-cognitive-art-history%E2%80%94what-makes-color-red?occ_id=0)February 24, 2023 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM EST | Room 427, Sackler Building, 485 Broadway Street, Cambridge, MA In Person Organized by Professor Eugene Wang, this workshop is a step towards developing methods of cognitive art history through examining issues of color in the Chinese context with evidence from archaeology and paleography. This workshop will feature 3 talks by... [### Anthropology Department Seminar, "Ecosystem Risks and Adoption of Ceramics in the Late Pleistocene of Southern Japan and Its Broader Implications," a talk by Fumie Iizuka ](/event/anthropology-department-seminar-ecosystem-risks-and-adoption-ceramics-late-pleistocene?occ_id=0)February 13, 2023 | 1:00PM - 3:00PM EST | Tozzer 203 In Person Abstract: Iizuka recently began archaeological excavations on Tanegashima Island off Kyushu where the most pronounced change from the terminal Upper Paleolithic (ca. 17,000- cal BP) to ceramic-bearing Incipient Jomon (ICP-J: 14,000/13,500-12,800 cal BP)... [### Anthropology Department Seminar, "Exploring Hominin Dietary Strategies and Ecologies in Island Southeast Asia," a talk by Grace Veatch ](/event/anthropology-department-seminar-exploring-hominin-dietary-strategies-and-ecologies-island?occ_id=0)February 9, 2023 | 3:00PM - 4:15PM EST | Tozzer 203 In Person Abstract: As a taphonomist, Dr. E. Grace Veatch’s research focuses on how archaic and modern humans exploited different resources and ecologies within the temporal and environmental contexts of the Pleistocene/Holocene. Dr. Veatch’s approach to... [### Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk, "The origin of ancient Austronesian: from the perspective of archaeological discoveries in Southeast China", by Zhenyu Zhou (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) ](/event/harvard-yenching-institute-visiting-scholar-talk-origin-ancient-austronesian-perspective?occ_id=0)February 8, 2023 | 11:00AM - 1:00PM EST | Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA In Person Welcome back to a new semester of Asian archaeology seminars and events at Harvard. We invite you to the following Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk next Wednesday by our affiliate, Zhenyu Zhou, with Rowan Flad as chair/discussant: "The... [### SEAA Virtual Book Talk ](/event/seaa-virtual-book-talk?occ_id=0)December 8, 2022 | 7:00AM - 9:00AM EST | Zoom Virtual [### Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Seminar Series, "Eternal Silk Road? New Archaeological Data from Bukhara and its Hinterland," a talk by Sören Stark (New York University) ](/event/inner-asian-and-altaic-studies-seminar-series-eternal-silk-road-new-archaeological-data-?occ_id=0)December 7, 2022 | 1:15PM - 2:30PM EST | CGIS South, Room S050 or Zoom Virtual Abstract: The archaeological exploration of Bukhara lags, compared to other important metropoleis in the wider region (such as Merv or Samarkand), considerably behind. Unfortunately, the lack of data is often compensated by clichés about the 'Silk Road'... [### Anthropology Department Seminar Series, "High Altitude Hunting and Early Pastoralism in the Mongolian Altai: New Perspectives from Melting Ice," a talk by Will Taylor (University of Colorado-Boulder) ](/event/anthropology-department-seminar-saries-high-altitude-hunting-and-early-pastoralism?occ_id=0)December 1, 2022 | 3:00PM - 4:15PM EST | Tozzer 203 or via Zoom Virtual ABSTRACT - Although archaeological clues suggest that high mountain zones played a central role in the first emergence of mobile pastoralism in the eastern steppes of Eurasia, the region's vast expanses and fragmentary archaeological record have prevented... [### Fall 2022 Mid-Semester Lunch ](/event/fall-2022-mid-semester-lunch?occ_id=0)November 2, 2022 | 12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT | Oxford Street Tent In Person [### Anthropology Department Seminar Series, "Domesticating Plants or Domesticating Ourselves? A New Approach to the Origin of Rice Farming in China", a talk by Jiajing Wang (Dartmouth) ](/event/anthropology-department-seminar-series-domesticating-plants-or-domesticating-ourselves?occ_id=0)October 6, 2022 | 3:00PM - 4:15PM EDT | Tozzer 203 or via Zoom Virtual Please join us at the Anthropology Department Seminar Series on Thursday, October 6 at 3pm for a talk by Dr. Jiajing Wang. Abstract: The transition to agriculture, characterized by plant domestication, is one of the most consequential events in human... [ More arrow\_circle\_right ](/calendar)