Down with the Xia!
People who have been following the Three Dynasties chronology debate have already seen this article by Li Liu and Hong Xu “Rethinking Erlitou: legend, his...
Category: Archaeology
Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis*
How did the modern Chinese historians create a national history? One aspect of this is the creation of protohistory, explaining what was going on in a place bef...
Breaking news
The top 10 Chinese archaeological finds for 2007 have been announced (Chinese descriptions are a bit longer).1 The winner is the Lingjing Paleolithic Site in He...
The Chinese are way more advanced than the Americans
Geoff Wade sent a long message to H-Asia detailing the current status of the raising of the Nanhai1, a large Song dynasty (or maybe Ming dynasty, accounts vary)...
Update on Honnôji
Professor Matthew Stavros of the University of Sydney (seen in the third photo below) wrote in response to my post on the discovery of roof tiles from Honnôji a...
Nobunaga’s death spot, Honnôji, discovered
Those of you who are, like me, interested in that brief era in the late 16th and early 17th centuries known as the Momoyama period (or the Azuchi-Momoyama perio...
Why octopuses are good at archaeology and Yonsama is the son of God
A brief news round-up. I meant to blog on the story of the octopus that ‘discovered’ a treasure trove of twelfth century pottery off the coast of Ko...
China reconstructs
One thing about China is that they are always re-building historical sites. Here are some guys building a new…something…. at the old Ming palace in ...
A stupid idea that will never work
Via Mutant Palm I learn that at 13-mile long dragon is being built in Henan It is being built on a hill that is supposedly the home of the First Emperor, and wh...
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Asian History News Dump, March 2007
This is a “dump”: all the Asia related stuff I’ve saved over the last…. two months? Anyway, nobody else has blogged about it, so I thoug...
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Asian History News Dump, March 2007
This is a “dump”: all the Asia related stuff I’ve saved over the last…. two months? Anyway, nobody else has blogged about it, so I thoug...
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Asian History News Dump, March 2007
This is a “dump”: all the Asia related stuff I’ve saved over the last…. two months? Anyway, nobody else has blogged about it, so I thoug...
Han Dynasty Pig Sty-Latrine
Courtesy of the Minneapolis Museum of Art
Luoyang shovel
This is the famous 洛阳铲, or luoyang shovel, one of the most important tools in Chinese archeology. The basic idea is that you take it and shove it in the ground ...
New book on Paekche
News comes, via the Korean Studies mailing list, that Jonathan Best’s history of Paekche is now out. I wouldn’t normally use this blog to advertise ...