Science: Archaeology: Regional: Asia

Devoted to the archaeology and pre-history of China, Japan, and Korea, an affiliate of The Society of East Asian Archaeologists.

A report from the IIAS Newsletter on the 15th South Asian Archaeology Conference for the exchange of new ideas, and latest results of excavation and research by archaeologists and art historians working on South Asia and the Silk Road region.

Shows 100 slides of monuments in Burma, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam documenting Hindu and Buddhist structures, dating roughly from the 9th to 15th centuries. With overview, sculptures, and ornamental details.

Describes ongoing research being carried out which seeks to identify and date archaeological resins from Southeast Asia.

Explores how virtually all dogs evolved from just a handful of wolves tamed by humans living in or near China less than 15,000 years ago.

Provides a short history of research of jewelry art in Central Asia from 400 BC to 400 AD.

Synopsis of investigation into Kashmir prehistory, revealing Greek influence and discoveries of important relics.

Compiled listing, grouped by region, by Boston University's International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History.

Explores the use of iron in east Asia and Siberia, from a meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Los Angeles, in 1993.

Explores the conclusions of a conference of Asian scholars and archaeologists that cultural exchanges occurred on a route from northeast China through Russian areas to Japan over 7,000 years ago.

A lecture by the distinguished Soviet scholar Valery Alexeev at Harvard University in 1991 on the state of archaeology in the former USSR and description of the physical and political geography of Eurasia.

Attempts to identify the unique artistic features of jewelry and draw conclusions based on differences in the quality of articles from various treasures.

This theory proposes a local development of East-European cultures from Enaeolithic to Pit-grave culture, Catacomb culture, Timber-grave (or Srubnaya) culture and Andronovo culture, which migrated south to India.

Academia Sinica, a Taiwanese institute, describes its research departments on history, linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, and the Chinese writing systems.