Full Schedule, 2-5 June 2008, Beijing
OPENING CEREMONY
Room: C
9:00–9:30 Welcoming Speeches
- Head of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- Head of State Administration of Cultural Heritage
- Dr. Fumiko Ikawa-Smith, Chairperson of SEAA, Professor of Anthropology, McGill University, Canada
- Mr. Yang Yang, Director of International Cooperation Bureau, CASS
- Professor Wei Wang, Director of Institute of Archaeology, CASS
Plenary Sessions: Chinese Archaeology
9:30 Xing Gao–New Advances in Paleoanthropological and Paleolithic Archaeological Research in China
10:00 Jianjun Mei–Early Bronze Metallurgy in China: Some Challenging Issues in Current Studies
10:30 Wei Wang–New Trends and Developments in the Research on the Origins of Chinese Civilizations
11:00 Jing Yuan–The Status of Chinese Zooarchaeology
11:30 Zhijun Zhao–The Eastward Spread of Wheat into China –New Data from Archaeobotanical Studies
LUNCH BREAK
12:00PM–1:00PM,
Prime Hotel, Buffet
[1] SYMPOSIUM ■ NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE CHINESE BRONZE AGE
Room: A2814
Time: 1:30 PM–4:30PM
Organizers: Lothar von FALKENHAUSEN and HONG Xu
Participants:
1:30 Lothar von Falkenhausen–Introductory Remarks
1:45 Jessica Mary Rawson–Interactions between China and Inner Asia 950–650 BC
2:00 Xiangming Dai–Settlement Patterns from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age: A Comparison between the Yuanqu and Yuncheng Basin
2:15 Jianye Han–Cultures in Xinjiang from the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age
2:30 Kanegae Kenji, Daisuke Tokudome–A Preliminary Study of the Color Variation of Pottery of the Early Bronze Age in China: The Case Study of Pots Excavated at the Erlitou Site
2:45 Osamu Kikawada, Daisuke Tokudome–The Emergence and Meanings of "Huaxia State Complex": The Chinese Social Structure of the So-called "Xia, Shang, Zhou" Period
3:00 Feng Li, Zhonghe Liang–Explaining Guicheng: Socioeconomic Structure of a Bronze-Age Society in the Multicultural Environment on the South Shore of the Bohai Sea
3:15 Yung-ti Li–The Missing Link? Long-Distance Trade and Exchange in Early Bronze Age China
3:30 Takafumi Niwa–The Appearance and Development of the Lostwax Technique in Ancient East Asia
3:45 Yihui Qian–Lithic Research and Rethinking the “Chinese Bronze Age”
4:00 Zhouyong Sun–Social Status of Craftsmen Baigong in the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046–771 BC), China: An Archaeological Perspective
4:15 DISCUSSION
[2] SYMPOSIUM ■ COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EARLY COMPLEX SOCIETIES IN EAST ASIA AND THE WORLD
Room: A2815
Time: 1:30 PM–5:00 PM
Organizers: LI Liu and Xingcan CHEN
Participants:
1:30 Ofer Bar-Yosef–Emerging Complexity: From Foragers to Farmers in the Yangtze River Valley
1:45 Alison Betts–External Influences on the Bronze Age of the Zhunge’er Basin, Xinjiang
2:00 Roy L. Carlson–Northeast Asia and the Northwest Coast of North America
2:15 Judith Field–Identifying Function and Use of Grinding Stones from Archaeological Sites: Recent Studies from Australia and China
2:30 Hitomi Hongo, Anezaki Tomoko–The Process of Pig Domestication in Southwest Asia and its Relevance to Understanding the Process in East Asia
2:45 Gyoung-Ah Lee–Spatial Patterns of Plant Use in the Yiluo Valley, North China
3:00 Li Liu–The Function of Grinding Stone and the Emergence of Sedentism in East Asia: A Comparative Approach
3:15 Xiaoli Qin–The Basic Research of Bracelets
3:30 Tao Wang, Chaohong Zhao, Xiaohu Zhang, Tianxing Cui, Jincheng Yu–The Transition from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic in North China: A Focus on Early Pottery
3:45 Walburgamaria Wiesheu–Considerations about the Nature of the Early State in China
4:00 Liye Xie, Xingcan Chen, Xing Gao, Fuyou Chen, Yongqiang Li–Identifying Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age Stone Spade Blank Thinning Strategies at the Huizui Site, Henan Province, China
4:15 Hsiao-chun Hung–Were there Itinerant Jade Craftsmen in Southeast Asian Prehistory?
4:30 Qing Wang–The Excavation of Nanheya Village, Dongying City, Shandong Province, and the Significance of Sea-salt Production in the Shang-Zhou Periods
4:45 DISCUSSANT: Henry Tutwiler Wright III
[3] SYMPOSIUM ■ PREHISTORIC LANDSCAPE SHIFTS IN THE EAST ASIAN INLAND SEAS
Room: C
Time: 1:30 PM–4:00 PM
Organizers: Junzo UCHIYAMA, Hideyuki ONISHI, Ilona BAUSCH
Participants:
1:30 Leo Aoi Hosoya–Plant Food Subsistence Strategy in the Tianluoshan, Yuyao, China, and Their “Routine-Scape”
1:45 Shinji Ito–Was There the “Dark Age”?: Cultural Landscape Shift of Prehistoric Northern Ryukyu
2:00 Jongil Kim–Topophilia with Life and Death: the Formation of Agricultural Landscape in the Korean Bronze Age
2:15 Sangtaek Lim–Landscape Change and Settlement Reorganization during the Middle Chulmun Period in Southern Korea
2:30 Shin’ichi Nakamura–The Formation of Urban Landscape in the Lower Yangtze Area: Considerations on the Liangzhu Archaeological Sites
2:45 Alexander Popov–Landscape Shift and Neolithic Remains of South-western Primorye in the Middle Holocene
3:00 Daisuke Nakamura–Appearance of Jasper Tubular Beads and the Trade Development in the Far East
3:15 J. Christopher Gillam–Modeling Cultural Landscapes: Examples from East Asia and the Americas
3:30 DISCUSSANT: Junzo Uchiyama
3:45 DISCUSSION
[4] SYMPOSIUM ■ FUNERARY SYSTEMS IN NORTHEAST ASIA: THE FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF REGIONAL CULTURES
Room: A2718
Time: 1:30 PM–3:30 PM
Organizer: Ariane PERRIN
Participants:
1:30 Mark Byington–Characteristics and Context of Puyo Mortuary Practice in Northeastern China
1:45 Bonnie Cheng–Pre-or Post-Reform? Change in Early Northern Wei Tombs
2:00 Bryan K. Miller–"Those Who Follow in Death": Accompanying Burials in Xiongnu Mortuary Practice
2:15 Shing Mueller–The Murong Burials in the Liaoxi Area
2:30 Ariane Perrin–From Liaodong to P'yongyang: The Painted Tombs at Chaoyang and Liaoyang, and their Relationship with the Koguryo Painted Tombs
2:45 Yuki Oda–The Diffusion Process of Cremation Practices in Ancient East Asia: A Case Study between the Korean Peninsula and Japan
3:00 DISCUSSANT: Yangjin Pak
3:15 DISCUSSION
[5] SYMPOSIUM ■ ISLAND ARCHAEOLOGY IN EAST ASIA–INTERACTION AND ISOLATION
Room: A2618
Time: 1:30 PM–3:30 PM
Organizer: Barbara SEYOCK
Participants:
1:30 Barbara Seyock–Introductory Remarks
1:45 Kazuo Miyamoto–Prehistoric Interaction through Tsushima and Iki Islands between the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese Archipelago
2:00 Kanji Tawara–Tsushima as “Boundary”
2:15 Sugiyama Cohe–The Spatial Distribution Change of Obsidians from Kozu Island, Japan, in the Yayoi Period
2:30 Barbara Seyock–Cheju Island as a Case Study in Ancient Island-Mainland Interaction
2:45 Tomoko Nagatomo–The Relationship between Lelang and the South of the Korean Peninsula, the Northern Kyushu and Okinawa
3:00 Hiroto Takamiya–Long Distance Exchange and Food Stress in the Prehistory of Okinawa, Japan
3:15 DISCUSSION
[6] SYMPOSIUM ■ PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE PRESENT AND RECENT PAST IN EAST ASIA
Room: D
Time: 1:30 PM–4:45 PM
Organizers: Tim SCHADLA-HALL and Akira MATSUDA
Participants:
1:30 Peter Stone–Introduction
1:45 Gwon Gu Kim–A Critical Review of Major Issues in the Public Archaeology of the North-eastern Asian Countries
2:00 Kevin Tak-wing Sun–The Unclaimed Luggage: Who Owns Hong Kong’s Archaeological Heritage?
2:15 Whei-Lee Chu–The Application of Public Archaeology in Taiwan: A Case Study of Hui-Lai Site
2:30 Ryouko Araki, Eric West–Sharing the Past with the Children of
Zushi City, Japan
2:45 Jeff McClain–All of Sichuan is Virgin Soil: Feng Hanji and the Development of Archaeology in Wartime Sichuan
3:00 Chengxi Dong–Early Museum History in China
3:15 Jinsoo Park–The Archaeological Representation at the National Museum of Korea as Power Relation
3:30 Akira Matsuda–Archaeology and the Media in Japan
3:45 Koji Mizoguchi–“Sensitizing” Archaeology through Proper Theorization: A Proposal
4:00 Rui Pang–A Marginalized Community? Local Communities and Public Archaeology in China
4:15 Tim Schadla-Hall–Archaeology and Economics
4:30 DISCUSSION
[7] SYMPOSIUM ■ BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN EAST ASIA
Room: E
Time: 1:30 PM–4:45 PM
Organizer: Ekaterina PECHENKINA
Participants:
1:30 Svetlana B. Borutskaya, Sergey V. Vesilyev, Margarita K. Gerasimova–Human Skeletal Materials from the Neolithic-Aeneolithic Burial Ground of Fofonovo in the Lower Reaches of the Selenga (Zanbaikal)
1:45 Tumen Dashtseveg, Ch. Vanchigdash–Physical Characteristics of Archaeological Populations of Mongolia
2:00 Mauricio Hernandez–Population Height and the Quality of Nutrition in Ancient China
2:15 Michelle Machicek–Analysis of Degenerative Joint Disease in a Sample of Iron Age Skeletons from Various Regions of Mongolia
2:30 Erdene Myagmar: A Cranial Nonmetric Study of Archaeological and Modern Populations from Mongolia
2:45 Christine Lee–Population Interaction among Peoples of the Frontier of China and Mongolia from the Bronze Age to Medieval Period (2500 BCE-1500 CE)
3:00 Kenji Okazaki–Linear Long Bone Growth Before and After the Beginning of Wet-rice Cultivation, Japan
3:15 Ekaterina Pechenkina–Oral Pathology at the Rise of Social Complexity during Yangshao
3:30 Sergey Vasilyev–Bioarchaeological Research on Mesolithic /Neolithic Burials from the Chita Region (Russia)
3:45 Julia Fan–Health and Behavioral Change in Ancient Xinjiang (1800 BC-AD 220)
4:00 Marc F. Oxenham and Matsumura Hirofumi–Health Experience in Cold Environments: Insights from Hokkaido, Japan
4:15 Miao Wei, Congcang Zhao, Liang Chen, Changsui Wang–Dental Wear and Oral Health in Early Qin People: A Case Study from the Xishan Site, Gansu Province
4:30 DISCUSSION
[8] SYMPOSIUM ■ SPECIAL PANEL
Room: B
Time: 1:30 PM–5:00 PM
Organizer: Jigen TANG
Participants:
1:30 Fedoseeva Svetlana Aleksandrovna–The Neolithic of Northeast Asia
1:45 Elena Astashenkova–Bohai Buddhistic Fine Arts in the Russian Maritime Region
2:00 Trudy Doelman–Square Blocks versus Round Cobbles: The Exploitation of Basaltic Glass from Central Primorye, Far East Russia
2:15 Olga Dyakova–The Ethnic Structure of the Bohai State
2:30 Evgeniya Gelman–Subsistence Systems of the Bohai People: Archaeological Evidence from the Russian Maritime Region
2:45 Sergey Gusev–Old Whaling Culture on Chukotka and Alaska
3:00 Nikolay Kluyev–New Archaeological Discoveries in the Far East of Russia (an Epoch of Paleometal)
3:15 Nesterov Sergei–The Pohai Colonization of the Western Cis-Amur Area
3:30 Yana Evgenevna Piskareva–Local-chronological Groups of Mohe’s Culture in the Primorye region, Russian Far East
3:45 Alexander Vasilevski–Stone Age of the Far East of Russia: Current Achievements and Problems of Research
4:00 Kamijo Nobuhiko–Agricultural Diffusion from Use Wear Analysis of Ground Stone
4:15 Yuji Yamaguchi–Transformation of Settlement Systems from Late-Final Jomon to the Early Yayoi in Western Japan
4:30 Hua Yi–A Perspective on Yi and Xia: The Transformation in the East Asian Neolithic–Bronze Age
4:45 DISCUSSION
WELCOME BANQUET
Prime Hotel
6:00PM
[9] SYMPOSIUM ■ EURASIAN METALLURGY AND SOCIETY
Room: A2814
Time: 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Organizer: Liangren ZHANG
Participants:
9:00 Yoshiyuki Iizuka, Uchida Junko–A Metallurgical Study on the
Bronzes from Anyang Royal Tombs
9:15 Kang In UK–Alternative Development of Iron Making in East Asia in the First Half of the 1st Millennium BC: Evidence from the Newly Excavated Iron Tools from Barabash-3 (Yankovsky Culture) in the Far East Region of Russia
9:30 Philip Kohl–Practical Uses of Bronze Age Metals in Southwest Asia and the Western Eurasian Steppes: Comparisons and Contrasts with East Asia
9:45 Yanxiang Li, Jianli Chen, Yanping Zhu–Ancient Metallurgy in the Liaoxi Region, Northeast China
10:00 Yu Liu, Zhanwei Yue–A Study on the Mold-Casting Technology of Yinxu Bronze Ritual Vessels
10:15 Jianjun Mei–Metallurgical Analysis of Early Metal Objects from the Liushui Cemetery, Xinjiang, Northwest China
10:30 Liangren Zhang–Metallurgy and Social Inequality in Central Eurasia
10:45 DISCUSSION
[10] SYMPOSIUM ■ METHODS AND ISSUES IN THE ZOOARCHAEOLOGY OF EAST ASIA
Room: E
Time: 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Organizers: Richard H. MEADOW, Jing YUAN, Ajita K. PATEL
Participants:
9:00 Jiayuan An–A Study of Faunal Remains from the Yuanqu Shangcheng Site
9:15 Keith Dobney–Pigs, Pests and People: Using Biomolecular and Morphological Signatures to Explore the Origins and Spread of Early Farmers in East Asia
9:30 Marsha Levine–Paleopathology as a Tool for Investigating Chinese Bronze Age Horse Husbandry
9:45 Zhipeng Li–Cattle Husbandry from the Late Neolithic Age to the Early Bronze Age in North China
10:00 Peng Lu–Identification and Research on the Animal Remains of Guchengzhai Site
10:15 Yunbing Luo–The Raising of Pigs and their Ritual Use at the Dadianzi Site
10:30 Toyohiro Nishimoto–On Pig Domestication in the Yayoi Period, Japan
10:45 Zhuowei Tang–Thoughts on Zooarchaeology
11:00 Takeji Toizumi–Utilization of Aquatic Resources at the San’nai Maruyama Site: Palaeoecology of the Early Jomon Period at the Northern End of Honshu, Japan
11:15 Dongya Yang–Ancient DNA for Archaeological Investigations
11:30 Yin-Man Lam, Xianguo Fu, Xingcan Chen, Jing Yuan–Assessing the Effects of Taphonomic Processes on Skeletal Element Abundance in Archaeological Assemblages: An Example from the Site of Dayan, Guangxi
11:45 DISCUSSION
[11] SYMPOSIUM ■ NEW DATA AND ISSUES OF ARCHAEOBOTANY IN EAST ASIA
Room: A2815
Time: 9:00 AM–11:45 AM
Organizers: Gary CRAWFORD, Hiroki OBATA, Zhijun ZHAO
Participants:
9:00 Sung-Mo Ahn–Problems of Size Statistics of Archaeobotanical Crop Grains
9:15 Xuexiang Chen–Analysis of Floatation Results from the
Daxinzhuang Site, Ji’nan, Shandong, China
9:30 Gary Crawford–Changing Views of the Meaning of Agriculture: Implications for Palaeoethnobotany
9:45 Dorian Fuller, Yanming Fang, Hai Zhang–Changing Agricultural Organization in the Late Neolithic of Henan: Archaeobotanical Contributions from the Ying River Valley
10:00 Guiyun Jin–Neolithic Rice-paddy from the Zhaojiazhuang Site, Shandong
10:15 Minkoo Kim–Factors Determining Size Variability of Carbonized Wheat Grains (Triticum aestivum L.) from Archaeological Sites: A Case Study from South Korea
10:30 Y.Y. Li, K.J. Willis, Liping. Zhou, H.T. Cui–Palynological and Paleoecological Evidence for Buckwheat Cultivation in Western Liaohe River Basin, Inner Mongolia, China
10:45 Tracey L-D Lu–When Rice Farmers met Tuber Collectors: The Origin of Tuber Cultivation and the Expansion of Rice Farming in South China
11:00 Kazuo Miyamoto–The Spread of Early Rice Agriculture from Shandong Peninsula to the Korean Peninsula through the Liaodong Peninsula
11:15 Seiji Nakayama–The Beginning of Plant Cultivation in Central Japan
11:30 DISCUSSION
[12] SYMPOSIUM ■ PALAEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY OF EAST ASIA
Room: C
Time: 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Organizers: Chen SHEN and Xing GAO
Participants:
9:00 Xing Gao–Into the Future of East Asian Palaeolithic
9:15 Robin Dennell–The Climatic and Regional Background to Modern Humans in East Asia
9:30 Donald O. Henry–Tracing Modern Human Behavioral Organization through Intrasite Spatial Analysis: An Example from Southwest Asia
9:45 Youping Wang–The Zhijidong Site and the Transition to the Upper Palaeolithic in North China
10:00 Wu Liu, Xianzhu Wu, Yangke Quan, Yiyin Li, ChengLong Deng, Xiujie Wu, Shuwen Pei–Evidence of Fire Use by Late Pleistocene Humans from Huanglong Cave, Hubei Province, China
10:15 Chun Chen, Jiayuan An, Hong Chen–Lithic Analysis of the Xiaonanhai Assemblage Unearthed in 1978
10:30 Shuwen Pei, Ying Guan, Xing Gao–A Preliminary Report on the Excavation of the Pengjiahe Paleolithic Site in the Danjiangkou Reservoir Region
10:45 Robert L. Bettinger, Loukas Barton, Christopher T. Morgan, Fahu Chen, Dongju Zhang, Duxue Ji–The Paleolithic Record at Dadiwan, Eastern Longxi Basin, Gansu
11:00 Dongju Zhang, Loukas Barton, Fahu Chen, Robert Bettinger, Christopher T. Morgan, Hui Wang, Hui Zhao, Yan Zhao–Environmental Background of Human Activity in the Western Loess Plateau during Marine Isotope Stage 3
11:15 Chen Shen–Technological Variability during the Transition to the Upper Palaeolithic in Northern China
11:30 Eugeny Rybin–Early Upper Paleolithic of Central Asia: The View from Mongolia
11:45 Xinzhi Wu–Discussant: On the Origins of Modern Humans in China
[13] SYMPOSIUM ■ HUMAN ADAPTATION AND SOCIO-POLITICAL CHANGE IN NORTHEAST CHINA WITH A FOCUS ON THE CHIFENG REGION
Room: A2718
Time: 9:00 AM–11:15 AM
Organizer: Gideon SHELACH
Participants:
9:00 Gideon Shelach–Ecological Condition and Changing Patterns of Human Adaptation in the Chifeng Survey Region”
9:15 Robert D. Drennan, Christian E. Peterson–Changing Community Patterns through Time in the Chifeng Region
9:30 Robert D. Drennan, Christian E. Peterson–Methods for Archaeological Population Estimation for the Chifeng Region
9:45 Christian E. Peterson, Xueming Lu, Robert D. Drennan–The Socioeconomic Organization of Hongshan Communities
10:00 Mingyu Teng–Settlement Patterns of the Pre-Qin Periods in the Banzhijian River Valley
10:15 Jianhua Yang–The Transitional Role of the Upper Xiajiadian Culture in the Development of the Northern Bronze Tradition of China
10:30 Yanping Zhu–The Distribution of the Sites of the Xiajiadian Upper Culture and Relevant Issues
10:45 Zhijun Zhao–Domestication of Millets : Archaeobotanical Data and Ecological Perspectives from the Chifeng Region
11:00 DISCUSSION
[14] SYMPOSIUM ■ IDENTIFICATION, PRESERVATION AND STUDY OF ANCIENT WOODEN RELICS IN EAST ASIA
Room: A2618
Time: 9:00 AM–10:45 AM
Organizers: Takao ITOH and Mechtild MERTZ
Participants:
9:00 Takao Itoh–Database of Tree Species and Uses in Wooden Objects Unearthed in Japan
9:15 Naoko Kizawa–Meanings of Identification of Natural Wood Species for Archaeological Study–The Present Situation in Japan
9:30 Mechtild Mertz–A Historical and Ecological Study of the Wood Species Used in the Buildings of the 14th Century Serkhang Temple Complex, a Tibetan Monastery in Qinghai Province, China
9:45 Shuzhi Wang–The Study of Dendroarchaeology in China
10:00 Misao Yokoyama–Wood Identification of a Traditional Japanese Temple with Chinese Style: Shoindo of Manfukuji
10:15 Shengcheng Zhai–Database of Tree Species and Uses for Wooden Objects
10:30 DISCUSSION
[15] SYMPOSIUM ■ INTER-REGIONAL INTERACTION IN EAST ASIAN PREHISTORY AND HISTORY
Room: D
Time: 9:00 AM–11:45AM
Organizer: Francis ALLARD
Participants:
9:00 Clyde Melvin Aikens, Nai Rhee Song, Irina S. Zhushchikhovskaya–Inter-regional Interaction in Pacific Northeast Asia: Early Pottery, Bronze and Iron Technology, and the Emergence of Social Complexity
9:15 Francis Allard–Exotic Prestige Goods and Emergent Social Complexity in South China: Challenging the Model of Culture Change
9:30 Paola Demattè–The Origins of Chinese Writing: Signs and Symbols in Archaeological Context
9:45 Fumiko Ikawa-Smith–Obsidian Roads of the Late Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherers in Pacific Northeast Asia
10:00 Baong Kang–The Role of Long-distance Exchange in the Socio-political Development in Proto-historic Korea
10:15 Sarah Nelson–Shamanism and Interregional Interaction in East Asia and Heritage Tourism in the Dongbei: Some Problems and Solutions
10:30 Gideon Shelach–Desert or Steppe Highway? East-West Interactions during the Late Second and Early First Millennia BC and their Local Effects
10:45 Jun'ichiro Tsujita–The Reorganization of Interregional Relations at the Beginning of the Kofun Period, Japan, as Seen from Fragmented/Complete Chinese Bronze Mirrors
11:00 Oksana Yanshina–The Bronze Age in the Russian Far East: New Data
11:15 Yaroslav V. Kuzmin, Michael D. Glascock, Vladimir K. Poppv–Sources of Archaeological Obsidian in Northeast Asia: An Update
11:30 DISCUSSION
[16] SYMPOSIUM ■ SPECIAL PANEL
Room: B
Time: 9:00 AM–11:45 PM
Organizer: Yunxiang BAI, Peter Weiming JIA
Participants:
9:00 Pavel Volkov–The Functional Reconstruction of the Neolithic Dwellings from the Russian Far East
9:15 Elena Zhambaltarova, Luidmila Lbova–Funeral Complexes of the Neolithic-Early Bronze Age of the Western Transbaikalia in a Cultural Context of the Baikal Region (Results of the Formalized Analysis)
9:30 Wendy Frederick–Archaeology and Ethnicity of the Ainu
9:45 Heekyung Lee–Revisiting Toma-ri Kiln at the Kwangju Kiln Complexes
10:00 Masaaki Morishita–Filling Empty Museums: The Museum Boom in Post-war Japan and its Aftermath
10:15 Tomoko Nagatomo–The Production of Pottery in the Period of Starting Agriculture in the Japanese Islands
10:30 Shinya Shoda, Seung-hwan Oh, Ji-sun Han, Gyeong-sin Park, Jong-tae Jong, Hyun-sook Lee, Jin-a Heo, Su-ok Jung–A History of Cooking Pottery and Food Preparation Features on the Korean Peninsula
10:45 Sem Vermeersch–Korean Epigraphy: Characteristics, Function, Study
11:00 Upala Barua–The Origin of the Kamakhya Complex: Was it a Buddhist Site?
11:15 Tiluttoma Baruah–The Potters and Pottery of Majuli, Assam, in North-East India
11:30 DISCUSSION
LUNCH BREAK
12:00PM–1:00PM,
Prime Hotel, Buffet
[17] SYMPOSIUM ■ METHODS AND ISSUES IN THE ZOOARCHAEOLOGY OF EAST ASIA
Room: E
Time: 1:30 PM–2:30 PM
Organizers: Richard H. MEADOW, Jing YUAN, Ajita K. PATEL
Participants:
1:30 Jing Yuan, Rowan Flad, Yunbing, Luo–Meat-acquisition Patterns in the Neolithic Yangzi River Valley, China
1:45 DISCUSSANT: Richard Meadow
2:00 DISCUSSANT: Ajita K. Patel
2:15 DISCUSSION
[18] SYMPOSIUM ■ NEW DATA AND ISSUES OF ARCHAEOBOTANY IN EAST ASIA
Room: A2815
Time: 1:30 PM–4:00 PM
Organizers: Gary CRAWFORD, Hiroki OBATA, Zhijun ZHAO
Participants:
1:30 Michihiko Nakazawa–Acceptance and Diffusion of Rice and Barley in the Jomon Society, Japan
1:45 Hiroki Obata–Utilization of Legumes in Jomon, Japan
2:00 Elena Sergusheva–Appearance and Dynamics of Agriculture in Primorye Territory in the Period ca. 5000–2400 BP
2:15 Katsunori Takase–Archaeobotany of Barnyard Millet (Echinochloa) in the Jomon Period
2:30 Alison Weisskopf–Using Phytolith Data to Understand Crop Processing Stages and Labour Scales: A Case Study from Henan
2:45 Yunfei Zheng– Archaeological Studies on the Domestication of Rice in Cultivation Environments
3:00 Peter Weiming Jia–Initial Results of Floatation at the Luanzanggang Site in Xinjiang
3:15 Duxue Ji, Fahu Chen, Hui Wang, L. Barton, Guanghui Dong–The Origin and Development of Agriculture in Northwestern China-Evidence from the Survey in the Hulu and Xihanshui Reaches
3:30 Yaroslav V. Kuzmin–Pottery versus Agriculture: What was First in Northeast Asia?
3:45 DISCUSSION
[19] SYMPOSIUM ■ JADE AGE JADES AND JADE AGE MATERIAL SOURCES
Room: A2814
Time: 1:30 PM–3:15 PM
Organizer: Elizabeth CHILDS-JOHNSON
Participants:
1:30 Elizabeth Childs-Johnson–The Jade Age Question Redefined
1:45 Janet G. Douglas–Materials of Late Neolithic Jades in the Freer and Sackler Collections
2:00 Fang Gu–Special Characteristics of Qijia Jade Material
2:15 Kim Dung Nguyen–Jade Earrings from the Sa Huynh Culture: Typology, Technology and Cultural Speciality
2:30 Xuemei Yun, Chaohong Zhao–Differences in the Geological Properties of Jades and their Significance with Regard to the Study of Neolithic Jade Wares in China
2:45 Chaohong Zhao, Xuemei Yun–Jades of the Xiuyan Area, China, as Reflected in the Liaohai and Related Regions in the Archaeological Record of Late Neolithic China
3:00 DISCUSSION
[20] SYMPOSIUM ■ THE CONTRIBUTION OF GLASS STUDY TO EAST ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Room: A2718
Time: 1:30 PM–4:15 PM
Organizers: James LANKTON
Participants:
1:30 Brigitte Borell–The Glass Vessels from Guangxi Province
1:45 Sunil Gupta, Lapteff Sergey–Early Trade in Glass Beads between the Eastern Indian Ocean and East Asian Spheres (3rd Century BC–5th Century AD)
2:00 Yoshiyuki Iizuka–Decoding Ancient Glass: Methods for Chemical Analysis
2:15 Junko Furihata, Takayasu Koezuka, Junichiro Tatsumi–Two
Radiographic Techniques for the Nondestructive Study of Glass Beads
2:30 Gyu-Ho Kim–Glass and Glass Crucibles from Wanggnun-ni
2:45 James W. Lankton, Insook Lee, Gyu-Ho Kim–Treasures from the Southern Sea: Glass Ornaments from Early Gaya
3:00 Insook Lee–Glass Ornaments from Gimhae-Yangdong and Busan-Bokcheondong
3:15 Kriengkamol Tantrakarn–No-touch, Onsite Glass Analysis and the Promise of Portable X-ray Fluorescence (XRF)
3:30 Qinghui Li, Fuxi Gan, Ping Zhang, Huansheng Cheng–Chemical Composition Analyses of Early Glasses of Different Historical Periods Found in Xinjiang, China
3:45 Jiayao An –Glasses of the Northern Wei Dynasty Found at Datong
4:00 DISCUSSION
[21] SYMPOSIUM ■ A CENTURY OF PRESERVING ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE IN EAST ASIA
Room: D
Time: 1:30 PM–3:15 PM
Organizer: Hyung Il PAI
Participants:
1:30 Walter Edwards–Cultural Heritage Mismanagement? Lessons from the Takamatsuzuka Kofun Murals
1:45 Ioulia (Lilian) Karali-Giannakopoulou–Collecting Shells: Edward Morse and the 1878 Omori Excavations
2:00 Heekyung Lee–The "Re-discovery" of Ceramic Traditions in Colonial Korea: The Reconstruction of Choson Era Kiln Sites in Kwangju, Korea
2:15 Hyung Il Pai–Advertising Japan’s "Ancient" Terrains: Imperialist Nostalgia and Heritage Tourism in Colonial Korea
2:30 Subin Xu–The Emergence of a "Modern" Asian Cultural Heritage Aesthetics in the Early Twentieth Century: Examining Tadashi Sekino's Survey Records of Chinese Architecture (1906–1935)
2:45 Hideo Yoshii–Photography and Archaeology: the Re-construction of Sokkuram in Early Twentieth Century Korea
3:00 DISCUSSION
[22] SYMPOSIUM ■ PALAEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY OF EAST ASIA
Room: C
Time: 1:30 PM–4:45 PM
Organizers: Chen SHEN and Xing GAO
Participants:
1:30 Julie Cormack–The End of the Line Begins Here: Zhoukoudian
1:45 Shejiang Wang, Richard Cosgrove, Huayu Lu, Chen Shen, Ming Wei, Xiaobing Zhang–New Progress in Palaeolithic Archaeology in the South Luohe River Valley, China
2:00 P. Jeffery Brantingham, Xing Gao–The Late Colonization of the Tibetan Plateau: New Evidence from Qinghai Province, China
2:15 Yue Zhang–Zooarchaeological Analysis of Faunal Remains from Ma'anshan Cave Site, Southwest China
2:30 Chaorong Li–The Upper Paleolithic in Beijing
2:45 Chuan Kuan Ho–The Last Glacial Megafaunas and Paleolithic Hunters in Taiwan
3:00 Luidmila Lbova–Geoarchaeology of Early Upper Palaeolithic Complexes in the Baikal-rift Zone
3:15 Mochanov Yuri Alekseevich–The Dyuktai Bifacial Tradition of the Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia
3:30 Hirofumi Kato–The Origin and Lineage of the Blade and Microblade Complex in Hokkaido Island
3:45 Kaoru Otani–The Microlithic Industry in the Japanese Islands
4:00 Takanori Sakashita–Re-examination of a Palaeolithic Dwelling Site in Japan
4:15 DISCUSSANT: Ofer Bar-Yosef
4:30 DISCUSSION
[23] SYMPOSIUM ■ SPECIAL PANEL
Room: B
Time: 1:30 PM–3:45 PM
Organizer: Zhichun JING
Participants:
1:30 Asok Datta–Discovery of a Pre-Pala Monastic Complex at Moghalmari, Dantan, West-Midnapur, West-Bengal, by the Department of Archaeology, University of Calcutta
1:45 Sm Rita Datta–Cultural Heritage and Computer Technology: A Case Study of Bishnupur Temples, West-Bengal, India
2:00 Bandita Medhi–Consolidation of Surface Communication during Ahom Rule: A Structural Study
2:15 Dilip K. Medhi–The Great Indian Corridor in the East
2:30 Jack Gilbert Medrana–The China Factor in Philippine Archaeology
2:45 Rhayan G. Melend–The Archaeology of Death: The Significance of the Burials from Babo Balukbuk, Porac, on the Pre-Spanish History of Pampanga, Central Philippines
3:00 J.N. Pal–The First Farming Culture of the Middle Ganga Plain in Light of Recent Archaeological Investigations
3:15 Petra Rösch–Eternal Veneration, Perpetual Practice: The Assemblies of 35 and 53 Buddha Images in Chinese Buddhist Cave Temples (6th to 8th Century)
3:30 DISCUSSION
SEAA GENERAL MEETING (Required for SEAA Members)
Room: A2814,
Time: 4:00PM,
[24] SYMPOSIUM ■ PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY OF SOUTH CHINA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
Room: A2814
Time: 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Organizers: Xianguo FU, Tracey Liedan LU and Guo LI
Participants:
9:00 Judith Anne Cameron–Xianrendong and the Origins of Spinning and Weaving in South China
9:15 Nigel Chang–Personal Ornaments in Prehistoric Thailand and their Wider Context: Are Ideas or People Moving from China into Southeast Asia with the Appearance of Farming and again at the Beginning of the Southeast Asian Bronze Age?
9:30 Thuy Chanthourn–Circular Earthwork Sites in Eastern of the Mekong River
9:45 Tracey L-D Lu–The Diversity of Prehistoric Subsistence Strategies in South China
10:00 Quang Mie Nguyen–The 14C Dates and the Fluctuations of the Ocean in the North East Region of Vietnam
10:15 Van Viet Nguyen–Early Chinese Contacts into the Dongson Culture in Vietnam
10:30 Sophie Peronnet–Overview of Han Artifacts in Southeast Asia with Special Reference to the Recently Excavated Material from Khao Sam Kaeo in Southern Thailand
10:45 Ninh Pham Thi–Dong Cuom: The Jar Burial Site of Sa Huynh Culture, Dating from the Early Iron Age of Central Vietnam
11:00 Barry V. Rolett–The Beginning of Seafaring in South China
11:15 Nang Chung Trinh–The Relationship between the Big Stone Shovel Culture of Guangxi, China, and those in North Vietnam
11:30 Chuan Kuan Ho, Whei-Lee Chu–The Significance of the Hui Lai Site in Central Taiwan
11:45 DISCUSSION
[25] SYMPOSIUM ■ EARLY COMPLEX SOCIETIES IN THE SICHUAN BASIN AND SURROUNDING AREAS
Room: A2815
Time: 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Organizer: Rowan FLAD
Participants:
9:00 Rowan Kimon Flad, Zhanghua Jiang, Gwen Bennet, Pochan Chen, Shuicheng Li, Lothar von Falkenhausen–The Chengdu Plain Archaeology Project–Surveying Rice Paddies in the Search for the Origins of Sanxingdui
9:15 Gwen Bennet, Edwin Hajic, Zhanghua Jiang, Rowan Flad, Pochan Chen, Shuicheng Li, Jade D'alpoim Guedes–CPAS Project Environmental Archaeology Investigations on the Chengdu Plains: Goals and Findings
9:30 Ling-yu Hung, Jianfeng Cui, Honghai Chen, Hui Wang, Jian Chen–Painted Pottery and Long Distance Trade in Late Neolithic Northwestern China
9:45 Luisa Elena Mengoni–Body and Dress Ornaments in the Funerary Practices of Southwest China
10:00 Jade D'alpoim Guedes–The Ideology of Secondary and Collective Burial: A Case Study of the Dashimu of Southwestern China
10:15 Pochan Chen–Understanding Chu from the Perspective of World-systems Theory
10:30 TzeHuey Chiou-Peng–Bronze Age Yunnan and the Jinsha Corridor
10:45 Alice Yao–Variability in Bronze Age Community Patterns of the Qujing Basin, Yunnan
11:00 Zhilong Jiang–Preliminary Insight on Bronze Age Political Organization Based on Settlement Studies in the Lake Dian Basin, Yunnan, China
11:15 Fei Li, Herong Zhang–Culture Change in Guizhou, from the Prehistoric Period to the Han Dynasty: A Focus on Zhongshui Sites
11:30 Jian Xu–Archaeological Context of the Yelang State: Re-considering Bronze Age Sites in Guizhou
11:45 DISCUSSION
[26] SYMPOSIUM ■ MORTUARY ANALYSIS IN CHINESE ARCHAEOLOGY
Room: E
Time: 9:00 AM–11:15 AM
Organizer: Guolong LAI
Participants:
9:00 Xinlin Dong–The “Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety” as Seen on the Tomb Murals of the Northern Song, Jin, and Yuan Dynasties and their Relation with the Koryŏ Hyohaeng Rok
9:15 Fei Deng–Representation of Offering, Representation for Offering: A Study of Decorative Themes in Song Tombs
9:30 Jessica Mary Rawson, Suzanne Cahill–Mortuary Analysis of Chinese Archaeology: Space, Transformation, and Social Values
9:45 Guolong Lai–The Transformation of Burial Space in Early China
10:00 Meitian Li–Interaction and Transformation of Mortuary Culture in the Six Dynasties Period
10:15 Byung-joon Kim–Distribution and Buried Goods of Han Tombs
10:30 Zhefeng Yang–The Changes of Tomb Structure in Han China
10:45 Wa Ye–The Cemetery as a Landmark of Social and Moral Values: Archaeological Analysis of the Xingyuan Tang Tombs
11:00 DISCUSSION
[27] SYMPOSIUM ■ SOME NEW PRACTICES IN TAIWANESE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Room: C
Time: 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Organizers: Maa-ling CHEN and Pochan CHEN
Participants:
9:00 Hung-Lin Chiu–Reconstructing Prehistoric Taiwan Iron Age Post-marital Residential Practices in the Shiqiao Site, Tainan
9:15 Pei-Yu Chen–Evaluation of a Ceramic Analysis Unit, Vessel Lot versus Sherd: A Case Study on the Production and Standardization of Pottery from the She-kow Site
9:30 Mei-Huei Du–A Study on the Site Formation Process of Saqacengalj, an Abandoned Paiwan Settlement
9:45 Yiling Lin–Chaîne Opératoire and the Ceramic Transformation during the Late Neolithic Taipei Basin, Taiwan
10:00 Jiun-Yu Liu–From Military Industry Bureau to Taipei Workshop: An Observation of Cultural Changes
10:15 Pei-Ying Tsai–Spatial Analysis and Architectural Structures: A Case Study of Saqacengalj, an Abandoned Paiwan Settlement
10:30 Yi-Chih Yin–Neolithic Taiwan Jade Industry: An Introduction and New Discoveries
10:45 DISCUSSION
[28] SYMPOSIUM ■ SPECIAL PANEL
Room: B
Time: 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Organizer: Zhichun JING
Participants:
9:00 Shabeena Yasmin Saikia–Silk Route: The Ancient Trading Links between India's North East and South East Asia
9:15 Igor Sleptsov–The Dwellings of the Final Neolithic in the Primorye Region Based on the Margaritovskaya Archaeological Culture
9:30 Andrea Yankowski–Salt and Salt Pots: A Study of Premodern Salt Production in Southeast Asia
9:45 Sergai Komissarov, Viachesiav Molodin–The Xiaohe Culture of Xinjiang and its North Asian Affinities
10:00 Sarah Kautz–Facilitating Exchange: Interpreting Space and Identity at Dejima
10:15 Keith N. Knapp–Using Artifacts to Date Texts: The Case of the Accounts of Filial Children Manuscripts in Kyoto
10:30 Alfonz Lengyel–Ancient Chinese Sexual Objects –The “Intangible” Value of Spiritual and Material Heritage
10:45 Jay Xu–Inter- and Intra-regional Interaction in South/Southwest China during the Bronze Age
11:00 Hu Lin–Ceramic Variability and Socioeconomic Differentiation: An Archaeological Study of a Liao Pastureland Town
11:15 Mari Omura–Braids Excavated from the Chu Cemetery at Baoshan, China
11:30 Dhritiman Sarma–Khasi Megaliths
11:45 DISCUSSION
LUNCH BREAK
12:00PM–1:00PM,
Prime Hotel, Buffet
[29] Symposium ■ PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY OF SOUTH CHINA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
Room: A2814
Time: 1:30 PM–2:00 PM
Organizers: Xianguo FU, Tracey Liedan LU and Guo LI
Participants:
1:30 Brian Vincent–Ceramic Technology Evolution in Southeast Asia 4000–3000 BP
1:45 DISCUSSION
[30] SYMPOSIUM ■ VIETNAMESE ARCHAEOLOGY
Room: A2814
Time: 2:00 PM–3:30 PM
Organizer: Lien Thi Le
Participants:
2:00 Son Hong Dang–Architectural Materials from Ly Cung, Ho Citadel, Nam Giao Sites (Northern Vietnam)
2:15 Dzung Thi My Lam–The Sa Huynh Culture in Southeast and East Asian Context: Its Distribution, Chronology and Features (by Comparative Studies)
2:30 Lien Thi Le–The Bi Thuong Brick Tomb and Its Context in Northern Vietnam
2:45 Thu Anh Nguyen–Ash-pits at the Go Hoi Site (Vinh Phuc Province)
3:00 Huong Thi Mai Nguyen–The Vegetation Record at the Dong Son Archaeological Site, Northern Vietnam
3:15 DISCUSSION
[31] SYMPOSIUM ■ THE PAST IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA: NEW DIRECTIONS AND CHALLENGES
Room: A2815
Time: 1:30 PM–4:00 PM
Organizers: Luisa MENGONI
Participants:
1:30 Gwen Bennet–Archaeology, Cultural Heritage and Identity in North China
1:45 Bruce Gordon Doar–Universals and Uniqueness in Chinese
Archaeology and Heritage
2:00 Luisa Elena Mengoni–Archaeology and Consumption in
Contemporary China
2:15 Rui Pang–Cultural Heritage Management in China: A Case Study of the Han City of Chang’an
2:30 Yani Pang–Archaeology and Education in Chinese Museums
2:45 Marina Svensson–Ancestral Halls as Spaces of Living Culture and Heritage
3:00 Liang Zhang–Current Debates over Chinese Heritage in Historical Perspective: Reflections on the Formation of Modern Chinese Conceptions of Heritage
3:15 Jigen Tang–Value Preservation And Value Presentation Of Archaeological Sites
3:30 DISCUSSANT: Bingwu Cao
3:45 DISCUSSION
[32] SYMPOSIUM ■ SPECIAL PANEL
Room: B
Time: 1:30 PM–3:30 PM
Organizer: Jigen Tang
Participants:
1:30 Paul S.C. Tacon–An Asian Perspective on the Origins of So-called “Modern Human Behaviour”
1:45 Yuri Vostretsov–Model of Interaction of Populations with Maritime and Agriculture Adaptations
2:00 James Thomas Williams–Regional Survey of the Mongolian Altai and its Wider Implications
2:15 Bruce Zukerman–The Use of Sophisticated Computer Imaging and Image Databasing for the Preservation, Analysis and Distribution of Ancient Documents
2:30 Johan Arif–The Upper Third Molar Fossil of Homo erectus from Sangiran, Central Java, Indonesia
2:45 Christopher J. Norton–Taphonomic Perspectives from Middle-Late Pleistocene Xujiayao, China
3:00 Susan G. Keates–Issues of Homo erectus and Homo sapiens Dispersal in China
3:15 DISCUSSION
BEER PARTY
Room: A2814
Time: 5:00–6:00PM,