SEAA News Blog: Noteworthies

The Society for East Asian Archaeology (SEAA) will be hosting its very first virtual book talk! Join us on Thursday 8 December 2022 at 7-9 am (EST)/12-2 pm (GMT)/ 8-10 pm (CST) as we celebrate with Dr. Qin Cao (Oriental Museum, Durham University) and Dr. Wengcheong Lam (Chinese University of Hong Kong) on the launch of their new books, “Weapons in Late Shang (c. 1250-1050 BCE) China: Beyond Typology and Ritual” and “Connectivity, Imperialism, and the Han Iron Industry”. Also in attendance is Dr.

The SEAA Community might be interested in the following. Since 2019, Dr. Paula R. Curtis has been compiling information on academic-oriented job postings related to East Asia. They are accessible from her webpage via the following link: http://prcurtis.com/projects/jobs2022/?fbclid=IwAR03b6DSYaFBYUmhyO98w0J…

Check out this video highlight by our local organizers showcasing the SEAA9 conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_gMKESaFKY

"Researchers have deciphered enigmatic recipes for metal-making contained in an ancient Chinese text, revealing unexpected complexity in the art at the time.

Six chemical formulas are given in a Chinese text from 300BC known as the Kaogong ji. The manuscript, known as The World’s Oldest Encyclopedia of Technologies, forms part of a detailed archive of early imperial rule, which archeologists have been trying to decode since the 1920s."

Our China Stories (People's Daily Online) recently featured Dr. Anke Hein, the incumbent president of SEAA. You can watch the interview via the following link on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j51_mNpISA

The English and Chinese versions of the text of the interview are also available. Please see the following:  

English version: http://en.people.cn/n3/2022/0628/c90000-10115988.html

For those interested, check out the following video by the South China Morning Post on the excavation of Bronze Age artifacts from Laolongtou Tomb site in China's Sichuan province. 

For those interested, check out the following video lecture by Dr. Miriam Stark (Department of Anthropology, the University of Hawai'i at Manoa) on Ceramic Production and Distribution systems in Cambodia. It is available on Youtube. 

Chinese President Xi Jinping recently stressed the importance of furthering the study of Chinese civilization to enhance the historical awareness and cultural confidence of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and society, while unswervingly following the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics to realize national rejuvenation.

The Stanford Archaeology Center will be hosting a webinar, "Memories of the Archaeological Experience" by Jada Ko on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, at 12:00 PM PST. For more information and to register for the event, please see: https://archaeology.stanford.edu/events/memories-archaeological-experie…;

The exhibition will feature 80 striking objects, some of which have never before been seen outside Japan. Key loans announced on Wednesday include a flame pot, a highly decorated type of Jōmon ceramics, its fantastical shape evoking blazing flames. Such pots were produced in Japan for a relative short period, perhaps only a few hundred years.