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Women in Southeast Asian Archaeology: Discoveries, Accomplishments, and Challenges
Southeast Asians have venerated their past for centuries, but modern Southeast Asian archaeology is less than a century old. Academics and local...
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The history of prehistoric archaeology in Myanmar: a brief review
Myanmar’s (also called Burma) critical location at the juncture between South and East Asia plays a significant role in sha** the region’s cultural...
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Understanding Archaeology
The study of archaeology invites a moment of introspection. Situating within a cultural context usually deprives us of our ability to remain...
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The origins of southeast Asian weaving traditions: the perspective from archaeology
This paper presents a new map and account of the emergence and spread of spindle whorls in archaeological sites across southern China and southeast...
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Shell Midden Archaeology: Current Trends and Future Directions
Since the 19th century, the study of shell middens has played an important role in archaeological research. Shell midden and broader coastal...
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The Future of Chinese Archaeology
Where is the future of Chinese archaeology? This is a question we have to answer. It would be an oversimplification to state that Western archaeology...
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Archaeology and Its Development
Archaeology was once defined as “the science of restoring ancient society and exploring the patterns of historical development by studying...
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Women Practicing Archaeology
Women in archaeology is a volume written by 43 remarkable women scholars at all levels of their professional careers, working in different...
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Women in Japanese Archaeology
Japan has one of the highest numbers of archaeologists globally; however, female archaeologists remain underrepresented in the profession. Despite...
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Archaeology of the Silk Road: Challenges of Scale and Storytelling
Invented in the 19th century as an allegory for large-scale human interaction across Eurasia, the idea of “the Silk Road” continues to shape...
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Building from the Ground Up: The Archaeology of Residential Spaces and Communities in Southeast Asia
Despite the ethnographic importance of the Southeast Asian house and household, an explicitly Southeast Asian “household archaeology” is still in its...
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Was Italian Archaeology Influenced by National Socialism? A Provisional Assessment
German and Italian archaeologists had long been in close contact and shared paradigms of ethnically conceived cultures. However, the advent of first...
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Women in the Archaeology of the Trans-Urals (Russian Federation)
The Ural area can be defined as the natural geographic boundary between Europe and Asia. It covers several administrative provinces of the Russian...
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Critical Mass: Charting a Course for Japanese Diaspora Archaeology
Archaeology of the Japanese diaspora has reached “critical mass” in its disciplinary development, and there is a need to document the current state...
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Archaeology in the Fourth Dimension: Studying Landscapes with Multitemporal PlanetScope Satellite Data
For the last seven years, PlanetScope satellites have started near-daily imaging of parts of the Earth’s surface, making high-density multitemporal,...
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A History of Japanese Diaspora Archaeology
Japanese diaspora archaeology originated in the late 1960s but reports and publications did not appear until the 1980s. Early studies often included...
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Speaking beyond the Discipline: Japanese Diaspora Archaeology in Dialogue
While this collection of articles provides a pathbreaking assemblage of studies of Japanese diaspora, for the progression of the field, archaeology...
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Theoretical and Methodological Comments on Social Complexity and State Formation in Biblical Archaeology
Archaeology has done nothing if not expose the amazing degree of cultural variation among both ancient and more recent pre-modern societies...
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Origins of Eastern Asian Peoples
Origins of the Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, and Mongols are discussed through the development of language families. While the Chinese were derived...
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Between the Rock and a Hard Place: Estonian Archaeology at the Times of National, Socialist, and National Socialist Ideologies
This chapter traces the development of Estonian archaeology and the activities of its leading practitioners between the mid-1930s and the mid-1940s;...