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Category: Archaeology

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Happy birthday Dunhuang Project

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Did you know that this is the 20th anniversary of the International Dunhuang Project? Neither did I. They grow up so quick these international scholarly project...

Archaeology/China/Historiography/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Qin-Han

What if it's a fake? What if it isn't?

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Jeremiah Jenne pointed me to this most wonderful bit of French nonsense: Jean Levi’s claim that the terracotta army is a modern forgery. These famous clay...

Archaeology/China/Current Events/Public History

Managing History in China

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Historic Preservation is the process of  preserving historic stuff, mostly building and sites. China has lots of history. 5,000 years of it, in fact. Historical...

Archaeology/Books/China/English/Foreign Views/Japan/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Qin-Han

Monumental Histories

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

Quite by coincidence, I ended up reading three books on Chinese monuments, but not until the third did I realize that what I was reading was a history of modern...

Archaeology/English/Historiography/Japan/Premodern/江戸

The Lead Poisoning Thesis

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Some research is startling, and some research confirms what we already guessed or assumed, but there’s some research which falls between these categories:...

Archaeology/China/Republican

Indiana Jones -Busted

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

The people in the reading room at Shaanxi Provincial Archives are really nice and helpful and professional. Unlike some archives they will let you look at thing...

Archaeology/Art/General/Japan/photography

Cultural and Physical History Mystery

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Michelle Damian, who I met at ASPAC, has a new post up in her project journal with an intriguing mystery: One type of vessel that has intrigued me is the massiv...

Archaeology/China/Economics/Maoist era (1949-1976)

Modern Archaeology

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Great Leap Forward era backyard iron furnaces have been unearthed [via] and there is discussion about whether to preserve them as historical evidence, even a cu...

Archaeology/China/Tang

Old pots

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Rachel at AHC has a nice post up on her visit to the Hua Song Museum in Singapore, and what they are doing with one of the largerst marine archeology finds ever...

Archaeology/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Premodern/Science and Technology

Tomb Near Artifacts that Date to Himiko’s Purported Reign Dates Identified

Posted on June 1, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Am I the only person who had a bad reaction to the Tomb of legendary Japanese Queen Himiko found headlines I’ve been seeing? The article says Archaeologis...

Archaeology/China/English/Pre-Han/Teaching

You are nimble in warfare!

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

Two Western Zhou bronze inscriptions, both dating from around 850 B.C. and describing the war against the Xianyun1 It was the ninth month, first auspiciousness,...

Archaeology/Blogs and Carnivals/Books/China/Environment/Japan/Qing/Science and Technology

Liveblogging, slowblogging, Mammoth Blogging?

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

John McKay, at Archy, is publishing excerpts from his work on the natural history and historiography of wooly mammoths. The latest installment is about China, p...

Archaeology/China/English/Teaching

Teaching about Chinese Bronzes

Posted on December 10, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

As the semester is winding down, our academic readers are no doubt very busy doing their work. If you would like to do my work, however, we have something of a ...

Archaeology/Japan/Journals

Noteworthy Archaeological Sites, Issue 2008

Posted on November 28, 2008 by Morgan Pitelka / 0 Comment

Walter Edwards of Tenri University reported in a message to H-Japan that the newest issue of “Noteworthy Archaeological Sites” is online. The report...

Archaeology/China/Qing

Guangxu poisoned!

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Update on this breaking story here and here I’m not sure how important this will turn out to be. I always thought it was fairly obvious he had been bumped...

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