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{"title":"Iron Production Industry in Western Chongqing During the Late Ming Dynasty: A Perspective from Smelting Related Materials","authors":"Yuniu Li, Zhigang Sun, Tian Qiu, Jiujiang Bai, Wan Huang","doi":"10.1353/asi.2023.a909234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2023.a909234","url":null,"abstract":"abstract: Four iron smelting related sites were discovered in Zouma Town, western Chongqing, China. Among these sites, two (Luduizi and Tieshazitu) were dated to the end of the Ming Dynasty in the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries a.d. and the other two (Gaoluchang and Nianmigou) were dated to the Late Qing Dynasty in the nineteenth century. Large amounts of smelting-related materials were excavated from these sites. Ten metallographic samples collected from excavated slags, a furnace wall, and iron ore were prepared and analyzed. This article reports the first scientific analysis of smelting-related materials in the area. The results provide a preliminary understanding of iron production technology in Chongqing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.","PeriodicalId":45931,"journal":{"name":"Asian Perspectives-The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136257787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ancient Glass of South Asia: Archaeology, Ethnography and Global Connections ed. by Alok Kumar Kanungo and Laure Dussubieux (review)","authors":"Ian C. Freestone","doi":"10.1353/asi.2023.a909239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2023.a909239","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Ancient Glass of South Asia: Archaeology, Ethnography and Global Connections ed. by Alok Kumar Kanungo and Laure Dussubieux Ian C. Freestone Ancient Glass of South Asia: Archaeology, Ethnography and Global Connections. Alok Kumar Kanungo and Laure Dussubieux, eds. Singapore: Springer, 2021. xxvi + 557 pp., 59 b&w + 245 colour illustrations. Hardcover US $160, ISBN 9789811636554; softcover US $140, ISBN 9789811636578; ebook US $109, ISBN 9789811636561. The marked expansion in the archaeometry of glass which took place in the first decade of the twenty-first century has led to an explosion of interest in glass beads and bangles. Desirable, robust, and portable, they hold important information on trade and connectivity which can be revealed by the analysis of their chemical constituents. While this potential of chemical analysis has been understood for decades (e.g., Basa et al. 1991; Brill 1987; Singh 1989), it is only recently that it has been fully realized, largely due to the application of the technique of laser ablation inductively-coupled mass spectrometry (LAICP-MS). This method allows a rapid, accurate, and precise analysis of around 60 elements in glass artifacts and, critically, is essentially non-destructive, leaving only a sub-millimetre scar on the surface of the artifact. Where earlier typological work inferred likely long-distance connections (Francis 1990), chemistry has confirmed them. The resultant growth in understanding has served to emphasise the important role of the Indian sub-continent, which was arguably the major producer of glass beads in the last two millennia. Indian beads are found as far afield as eastern Africa and northwestern Europe and are also widely distributed in southeastern and southern Asia. Furthermore, the continuation into the modern period of traditional methods of making and working with [End Page 257] glass and glazes allows important insights into the methods and organization of the production of glass ornaments through ethnographic observation and literary accounts. The present book brings together recent and ongoing work on the archaeology, archaeometry, and ethnoarchaeology of South Asian glass, edited by two leading researchers in their respective areas. The chapters are developed from lectures delivered by the eminent list of authors at a conference in Gandhinagar in 2019 and may be considered a good reflection of the state of the art. However, this substantial 550-page book is far from a standard conference volume. It strives not only to provide a comprehensive coverage of its subject matter, but also to serve as an introduction to the study of glass by including a number of chapters by established researchers on broader issues; by and large, it is very successful. The book opens with several chapters providing introductory and background information. Rehren opens with a summary of the current state of play in our understanding of the origins of glass in Egypt and Mesopotamia. In th","PeriodicalId":45931,"journal":{"name":"Asian Perspectives-The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136257789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Archaeology of Ancient Japanese Gardens","authors":"Richard Pearson","doi":"10.1353/asi.2023.a909235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2023.a909235","url":null,"abstract":"abstract: This article summarizes the results of archaeological research on some 20 Japanese garden sites dating from the fourth to twelfth centuries a.d., emphasizing the site plan, remains of structures, stone groupings, and ponds. Associated plant remains from five sites are tabulated and briefly discussed. I introduce some early Chinese and Korean antecedents and provide historical context. Gardens with rectangular ponds were introduced from the continent in the Asuka Period (a.d. 538–710). From the Nara Period (a.d. 710–794), garden making was naturalized in a Japanese asymetrical curving style in which structures were located away from the central axis. The gardens discussed here represent a small sample of the original gardens. They include two early examples of an adopted continental style (i.e., Uenomiya and Furumiya), a garden from an imperial palace site, gardens enclosing Heian Period shinden type architecture (raised residence with side wings) and its adapted Pure Land form, and a garden associated with the palace of a retired emperor. Plantings show a combination of flowering trees and shrubs, many introduced from the continent, combined with native deciduous and evergreen trees. Continental examples of gardens with rectangular ponds belong to royal palaces and were symbols of royal authority, as were the examples dated to the Asuka Period. In the Heian Period, state gardens such as Shinsen'en were used for state functions and required ample space and simple organization, while gardens sponsored by elite courtiers such as the Fujiwara show the expression of Buddhist belief. In the Toba Rikyū, built by retired emperors under a complex insei (retirement) system, imperial mausolea shared the landscape with mansions, Buddhist temples, and chapels. Groupings of stones, curving streams, dry landscapes, and low waterfalls probably all occurred as early as the Nara Period.","PeriodicalId":45931,"journal":{"name":"Asian Perspectives-The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136257793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What's in a Hearth? Preliminary Findings from the Margal Hunter-Gatherer Habitation in the Eastern Mongolian Gobi Desert","authors":"Sarah Pleuger, Bastian Breitenfeld, Altanbayar Zoljargal, Albert Russell Nelson, William Honeychurch, Chunag Amartuvshin","doi":"10.1353/asi.2023.a909232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2023.a909232","url":null,"abstract":"abstract: Today's image of people inhabiting the vast steppe landscapes of Mongolia is inseparably linked to mobile animal herding. Indeed, archaeologists have confirmed that human-animal communities comprised of human herders and domestic livestock roamed across Mongolia's grassland environment and utilized semi-arid to arid regions such as the Gobi steppe desert for thousands of years. However, it is much rarer to catch a glimpse of the time before the advent of pastoralism in this part of the world. During the Neolithic (ca. 6000–1800 b.c.), the Gobi was much less of a desert than it is today. Sparsely scattered archaeological sites testify to the presence of hunter-gatherer groups that successfully exploited rich wetland environments. As a result of the pedestrian survey carried out by the Dornod Mongol Survey in the greater region of Delgerkhaan Uul, we discovered in situ remains of a Neolithic habitation site. Excavations at the Margal site uncovered a stratified hearth and a lithic assemblage embedded in a habitation layer and accompanied by a few faunal bone fragments. Our finds correspond with the Oasis 2 stage (ca. 6000–3000 b.c.) of the scheme established by Janz and colleagues dividing the Mongolian Neolithic into phases based on habitation, as well as subsistence patterns and technology. However, some typical Oasis 2 markers such as pottery and grinding tools are missing from the small assemblage uncovered from test excavations in 2017 and 2018. Margal likely belonged to a regional network of extended hunter-gatherer occupation relying on wild plant and faunal resources. The site represents the first of its kind in the region and has potential to shed light on hunter-gatherer subsistence and habitation decisions. In concert with adjacent archaeological surface scatters and contextualized in the supraregional network of hunter-gatherer habitation, it will contribute to refining current models of lifeways and transformations in Mongolian prehistory.","PeriodicalId":45931,"journal":{"name":"Asian Perspectives-The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136257434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digging Deep: A Journey into Southeast Asia's Past by Charles Higham (review)","authors":"Dougald O'Reilly","doi":"10.1353/asi.2023.a909236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2023.a909236","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Digging Deep: A Journey into Southeast Asia's Past by Charles Higham Dougald O'Reilly Digging Deep: A Journey into Southeast Asia's Past. Charles Higham. Bangkok: River Books, 2021. 256 pp., 226 photographs. Paperback ฿850, ISBN 97886164510586. Autobiographies penned by archaeologists are rare finds indeed and with his book Digging Deep: A Journey into Southeast Asia's Past, Professor Charles Higham joins the august ranks of Sir Mortimer Wheeler and W. M. Flinders Petrie in penning a reckoning of his distinguished career in the field. Over 14 chapters, Higham takes us through the arc of his life, beginning with a childhood recounted in remarkable detail thanks to the author's habit of keeping a daily journal throughout his life. The first four chapters of Digging Deep cover Higham's formative years. Born in 1939, Higham was educated in South London. He developed a passion for archaeology at an early age, due in part to Mortimer Wheeler's appearance on British television. Higham and his brother first volunteered in the 1955 excavations of the Bronze Age site of Snail Down in Wiltshire before broadening their horizons by working on the digs at Arcy sur Cure in France. Higham studied for two years at the Institute of Archaeology, London University, with a focus on the archaeology of the western Roman provinces. He was privileged to have the opportunity to excavate in the United Kingdom at the Roman-era site of Verulamium and in France at an Iron Age site, Camp du Charlat. In 1959, he took up an offer from Cambridge University, where he studied the European Neolithic, Bronze, and Iron ages. In Digging Deep, these early years read like a Boy's Own adventure, including an early trip to excavate in the fabulously named Grotte de L'Hyène in France and being awoken from siesta by Mongolian bagpipes played by the excavation director. A highlight of Higham's time at Cambridge was being selected for the university's rugby side and playing before a crowd of nearly 70,000 spectators and later being selected as an England triallist. A rugby career was not to be and Higham embarked on a doctorate focused on the prehistoric economic history of Switzerland and Denmark. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1966. In the late 1960s, antipodean universities were eager to attract academic talent and recruited many Cambridge graduates. Higham was offered a lecturing position at the University of Otago in New Zealand the year he completed his doctorate. He was appointed Foundation Professor of Anthropology only two years later, at the age of 29. An American graduate student, Donn Bayard, later to have a long and distinguished career himself at Otago, introduced Higham to Southeast Asian archaeology. This area of study was largely overlooked at the time, but was brought to prominence by a number of astonishing claims including what was dubbed the 'WOST', World's Oldest Socketed Tool, which was dated at the time to the fourth millennium b.c. (Solheim 1968). Higham's wo","PeriodicalId":45931,"journal":{"name":"Asian Perspectives-The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136257795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Talepakemalai: Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania ed. by Patrick Vinton Kirch (review)","authors":"Christophe Sand","doi":"10.1353/asi.2023.a909238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2023.a909238","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Talepakemalai: Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania ed. by Patrick Vinton Kirch Christophe Sand Talepakemalai: Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania. Patrick Vinton Kirch, ed. Monumenta Archaeological 47. Los Angeles: UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2021. xxvi + 558 pp., 337 figures, 90 tables, bibliography, index. Hardback US $120, ISBN 9781950446179. What a book! In its nearly 600 pages, contained within a hard black cover with only the \"Lapita God\" as front illustration, Patrick V. Kirch has granted Pacific archaeologists with a long awaited synthesis of the unique finds of the Lapita sites of the Mussau Islands in the Bismarck Archipelago that were excavated in the mid-1980s. This book has been published 20 years after what was then presented as the first of a three-volume synthesis on the excavations fulfilled in the Mussau Islands (Kirch 2001). While it might look like a surprise to some archaeologists, this book is the first to publish up-to-date results from one of the major Lapita sites in Island Melanesia, Talepakemalai (ECA), in a single volume. Numerous data on various aspects of dentate-stamped decorated pottery, associated lithic artifacts and shell ornaments, or remains of shells and bones have been published by colleagues over the past decades on specific sites across the Lapita region, but only the Lapita sites excavated on a small scale have been published completely (e.g., Anson et al. 2005; Clark and Anderson 2009; Specht and Attenbrow 2007). This volume thus sets the stage for what could be achieved for other important sites in the Bismarck Archipelago, southeast Solomons, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia. Aside from a preface and acknowledgements, this edited volume contains 18 chapters, more than half of them authored or co-authored by Kirch, including the introduction and conclusion. The long introduction sets the scene by presenting an overview of Lapita archaeology and the context of the Lapita Homeland Project organized by Jim Allen in 1985, of which the Mussau Project was one component. Kirch addressed a series of major themes on Mussau, including Lapita origins, economy, long-distance exchange, society, and Late Lapita transformations. Three field seasons (i.e., 1985, 1986, 1988) were dedicated to excavations of the Talepakemalai site and other Lapita sites located in surrounding islands. The main phases of each season are presented in this book, as well the outcomes of the first laboratory studies. Chapter 2 summarizes the main natural characteristics of the Mussau Islands, focusing especially on the small uplifted outer islands that dot the southern end of Mussau in a reef and lagoon environment. To address the forthcoming analysis of the unique stratigraphic fills excavated, a section is devoted to coastal geomorphology and sea-level fluctuations during the Holocene. The next two chapters detail the excavations completed over the thre","PeriodicalId":45931,"journal":{"name":"Asian Perspectives-The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136302275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Plant and Parasite Record of a Midden on Auckland Isthmus, New Zealand, Reveals Large Scale Landscape Disturbance, Māori-Introduced Cultigens, and Helminthiasis","authors":"Mark Horrocks, Adina Brown, John Brown, Bronwen Presswell","doi":"10.1353/asi.2023.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2023.0005","url":null,"abstract":"The study of Māori agriculture in New Zealand is hindered by lack of direct evidence in the form of plant remains and on Auckland Isthmus also by lack of excavation sites due to extensive urbanization. Recent demolition and earthworks for the construction of an apartment complex at Newmarket on the isthmus exposed a Māori shell midden. The midden was analyzed for plant (pollen, phytoliths, and starch) and parasite microfossils to shed light on Māori activity on the isthmus. The plant microfossil and 14C results show large-scale landscape disturbance by people and the discovery of pollen from the Māori-introduced cultigens Colocasia esculenta (taro), Cordyline cf. fruticosa (tīpore), and possibly Broussonetia papyrifera (aute, paper mulberry) demonstrates agricultural activity. In addition, phytoliths of B. papyrifera and starch and xylem of cf. C. esculenta and cf. Ipomoea batatas (kūmara, sweet potato) were identified. The parasitological analysis identified egg packets of Dipylidium caninum, a dog parasite that would have adversely affected dogs and people on the isthmus. These microfossil types and their affinities are described in detail and discussed with reference to archaeological contexts elsewhere in New Zealand and the wider Pacific Island region, reviewing the locations and types of both macro- and microfossils of these cultigens and parasites previously reported in the Pacific Islands. Given the highly variable production and preservation of different organic tissues, the study also highlights the value of combining the three different types of analyses for the study of ancient human activity, in this case providing evidence of four of the six Māori-introduced cultigens and a dog parasite from a single midden.","PeriodicalId":45931,"journal":{"name":"Asian Perspectives-The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135126756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Mid-Second Millennium a.d. Submerged Iron Production Village of Pontada in Lake Matano, South Sulawesi, Indonesia","authors":"Shinatria Adhityatama, Triwurjani Triwurjani, Dida Yurnaldi, Joko Wahyudiono, Ahmad Surya Ramadhan, Muslim Dimas Khoiru Dhony, Suryatman Suryatman, Abdullah Abbas, Darfin Darfin, Alqiz Lukman, Aldhi Wahyu Pratama, David Bulbeck","doi":"10.1353/asi.2023.a909233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2023.a909233","url":null,"abstract":"abstract: By the mid-second millennium a.d., Indonesians were already familiar with iron tools. One of Indonesia's main centers of iron production is the Lake Matano area in the hinterland of East Luwu, South Sulawesi, eastern Indonesia, renowned for its nickeliferous iron ore. Research in Lake Matano conducted during 2016–2022 succeeded in documenting a submerged village with remnants of an iron processing industry dating to the late first millennium a.d. In this article, we describe a second submerged site associated with processing iron, which included forged iron implements. Occupation at this site, called Pontada, is dated to between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries a.d., before the site sank beneath the surface of Lake Matano. Written and archaeological evidence suggests that its antiquity corresponds to when the empire of Majapahit in eastern Java imported nickeliferous iron from Lake Matano and traded it throughout coastal Luwu.","PeriodicalId":45931,"journal":{"name":"Asian Perspectives-The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136257788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Origin of Cattle in China from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age by Chong Yu (review)","authors":"Noel Amano","doi":"10.1353/asi.2023.a909237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2023.a909237","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: The Origin of Cattle in China from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age by Chong Yu Noel Amano The Origin of Cattle in China from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age. Chong Yu. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2020. 108 pp., 20 figures, 13 tables. Paperback £31.00, ISBN 9781407316871. The domestication of cattle (Bos taurus) from extinct Eurasian aurochs (Bos primigenius) around 10,500 years ago somewhere in the Upper Euphrates and Tigris basins of the Fertile Crescent marks one of the defining moments of the Neolithic Period (Helmer et al. 2005; Peters et al. 2005). Genetic evidence hints that this process started out in a restricted area, constrained by difficulty in managing and sustaining herds, with just around 80 female aurochs estimated to be initially domesticated (Bollongino et al. 2012). Valued for their meat, in addition to secondary products such as milk, hide, blood, [End Page 248] and dung, and services including use for traction, domestic cattle were soon present in Cyprus by the end of the eleventh millennium b.p. (Vigne et al. 2000) and almost all throughout the Near East by the eighth to seventh millennium b.p. (Arbuckle and Kassebaum 2021; Helmer et al. 2005; Peters et al. 2005; Vigne et al. 2011). But as with any history of animal domestication, that of cattle is complex and not straightforward. Genetic studies of early cattle outside the Fertile Crescent have revealed multiple introgressions of wild aurochs to domestic populations. Some researchers argue that pre-domestic cattle management, as well as early \"morphologically\" domestic cattle, originated in multiple centers in Southwest Asia, rather than in just a single center in the Upper Euphrates Valley (Arbuckle and Kassebaum 2021). In addition, a separate domestication event occurred in the Indian subcontinent with the domestication of the zebu cattle (Bos indicus) (Park et al. 2015). By around 4200 b.p., genetic evidence shows zebu cattle introgression to Southwest and Central Asia, which is hypothesized as linked to the introduction of arid-adapted zebu bulls to enhance herd survival during a widespread, multi-century drought (Verdugo et al. 2019). In the archaeological record, evidence of early cattle domestication and herding at sites in the Levant (e.g., Dja'de el-Mughara, Tell Hallula, Mureybet) and Anatolia (e.g., Çayönü Tepesi, Göbekli Tepe, Çatalhöyük) was detected by looking at a range of attributes including size diminution, reduction in sexual dimorphism, shift in age of individuals exploited as shown by kill-off patterns, and change in diet as revealed by stable isotope analyses, not to mention relative increase in the frequencies of cattle bones at the archaeological sites. In China, genetic and archaeological evidence points to cattle being introduced, presumably from West Asia, sometime between 5600 and 4000 years ago at sites such as Shantaisi and Pingliantai (Lu et al. 2017; Yuan 2010). However, based mostly on the presence of aurochs remains at s","PeriodicalId":45931,"journal":{"name":"Asian Perspectives-The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136257796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Terry T. Marsh (25 July 1938–30 July 2021)","authors":"Cyler Conrad","doi":"10.1353/asi.2023.a909240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2023.a909240","url":null,"abstract":"Terry T. Marsh (25 July 1938–30 July 2021) Cyler Conrad Click for larger view View full resolution Terry Marsh excavating at Spirit Cave, Thailand, in early March 1971 (Photograph by Chet Gorman, courtesy of Joyce White and the Institute for Southeast Asian Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania Museum) On 30 July 2021, Terry T. Marsh passed away at the age of 83 at his home in Auckland, New Zealand. An archaeologist who was as ubiquitous as he was mystic, Marsh had participated in excavations and research at some of the best-known sites in mainland Southeast Asia during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although he published only a few archaeological reports, his interest, kindness, friendship, and dedication made a significant contribution to our knowledge of Thailand and mainland Southeast Asian prehistory. [End Page 261] Marsh attended undergraduate school at Sacramento State College (now California State University, Sacramento) in 1958–1962. He graduated in spring 1962 with a B.A. in Fine Arts, specifically ceramics. It was during college that Marsh became friends with Chester \"Chet\" F. Gorman. They were housemates, along with several other students, in a rented home near campus. Although Marsh did not formally graduate with an anthropology degree from Sacramento State College, his journey to archaeology, anthropology, and Thailand began almost immediately after graduation. In spring 1962, Gorman had just finished his first year of graduate school in the Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i when he sent Marsh a telegram that simply stated: \"SUMMER WORK CAVE EXPLORATION OUTER ISLANDS COME IMMEDIATELY.\"1 Marsh answered the call, and his journey to Southeast Asia began. While in Hawai'i, Marsh surveyed lava tubes with Gorman as part of a U.S. government project investigating the use of these caves as nuclear fallout shelters. Once their survey was completed, presumably in 1962, Marsh later wrote in an unpublished personal memoir that he \"sort of forgot to go home.\" He continued working in survey for the same company on various projects throughout the islands. After Gorman returned from his first season of archaeological survey in northeast Thailand in 1964, he and Marsh began living in another rented, shared house infamously known as \"Sutton's Place.\" For all its raucousness, living at Sutton's Place put Marsh in contact with several other anthropologists and archaeologists who were colleagues or friends of Gorman's at the University of Hawai'i. One of these housemates-turned-friends was an archaeologist named Donn Bayard. Given Marsh's background in ceramics and experience working in survey throughout Hawai'i, it was no surprise that Bayard asked Marsh to assist him when he returned to northeast Thailand in 1968 for the second season of archaeological excavation at a prominent site called Non Nok Tha. Marsh's travel to northeast Thailand was an adventure. Excavations began at Non Nok Tha in early February 1968, so Marsh likely left","PeriodicalId":45931,"journal":{"name":"Asian Perspectives-The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136301464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}