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Archaeology, Complex Societies, Ceramic Production; China
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Current Research
- Past Research - Selected Publications
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Personal
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When Anne Underhill began her career, foreigners were not allowed to participate
in archaeological fieldwork in the People’s Republic of China. She did
independent analyses of burials and pottery vessels from published
archaeological reports, and analyzed pottery stored in museums in Henan and
Shandong provinces. She also studied modern potters (ethnic minorities) in
Guizhou and Xinjiang provinces who use traditional production techniques. In the
early 1990’s, new laws permitted foreigners to participate in collaborative
field projects. Anne developed one of the first collaborative archaeological
survey and excavation projects involving American scholars. She has been
fortunate to work with archaeology professors at Shandong University, Jinan
city, Shandong, since 1995. She continues as the American director of a field
project located in the Rizhao area of southeastern Shandong. |
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Current
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Knowing their
expertise in regional survey in Mexico, Anne asked Linda Nicholas and fellow Field Museum curator Gary Feinman (both at The Field Museum) to join the research team. To date our team
has conducted six winter seasons of regional settlement pattern survey
(1995-2001). We have discovered a settlement hierarchy around the Longshan
period (ca. 2600-1900 B.C.) center at Liangchengzhen. During the fall of 1999
and 2000, Anne and her Shandong University colleagues began excavations at the
large site of Liangchengzhen. |
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Past
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Selected
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2005 (With Patrick E. McGovern, Hui Fang, Fengshi Luan, Gretchen
R. Hall, Haiguang Yu, Chen-shan Wang, Fengshu Cai, Zhijun Zhao, and
Gary Feinman) Chemical Identification and Cultural Implications of a
Mixed Fermented Beverage from Late Prehistoric China. Asian
Perspectives 44(2):249-275.
2005 (With Gary Crawford, Zhijun Zhao, Gyoung-Ah Lee, Gary
Feinman, Linda Nicholas, Fengshi Luan, Haiguang Yu, Hui Fang, and
Fengshu Cai) Reports - Late Neolithic Plant Remains From Northern
China: Preliminary Results From Liangchengzhen, Shandong. Current
Anthropology 46(2):309-316.
2003 Investigating Variation in Organization of Ceramic
Production: An Ethnoarchaeological Study in Guizhou, China. Journal of
Archaeological Method and Theory 10(3):203-275.
2002 Craft Production and Social Change in Northern China. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.
2002 (With Gary Feinman, Linda Nicholas, Gwen Bennett, Hui Fang, Fengshi
Luan, Haiguang Yu, and Fengshu Cai) Regional
Survey and the Development of Complex Societies in Southeastern
Shandong, China. Antiquity 76:745-755.
2000 An Analysis of Mortuary Ritual at the Dawenkou Site,
Shandong, China. Journal of East Asian Archaeology 2(1/2):93-127.
1998 (With Gary Feinman, Linda Nicholas, Gwen Bennett, Fengshi
Cai, Haiguang Yu, Fengshi Luan, and Hui Fang) Field Reports: Excavation
and Survey - Systematic, Regional Survey in Southeast Shandong
Province, China. Journal of Field Archaeology 25(4):453-475.
1996 (With William Meacham) Archaeological Investigations on Chek Lap Kok Island. American Antiquity 61(1):165. |
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