http://hdl.handle.net/10125/16582 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:12:47 GMT 2013-05-21T23:12:47Z http://hdl.handle.net/10125/17015 Wed, 01 Jan 1992 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/17015 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Keates, Susan G; Kirch, Patrick V; Miksic, John N; Yan, Yunxiang; Linduff, Katheryn M http://hdl.handle.net/10125/17014 Geographic variability in Polynesian fishhook assemblages has long been recognized but largely unexplained. West Polynesian assemblages are typically small in number, relatively uniform in morphology, and often manufactured from Turbo. Those from East Polynesia are comparatively large and morphologically varied, and Pinctada margaritifera is the preferred raw material. Drawing on both geographically dispersed assemblages and the temporal sequence from Aitutaki, Cook Islands, I suggest that these assemblage differences stem from both structural properties of the two shell species and their differential availability through time and across the region. I also examine two sets of selective conditions, one that initially led to an increase in the frequency of angling in East Polynesia and a second that subsequently fostered a decline in angling on Aitutaki and possibly elsewhere in the region. KEYWORDS: Polynesian fishing, southern Cook Islands, fishhooks, technological variation, culture process. Wed, 01 Jan 1992 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/17014 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Allen, Melinda S http://hdl.handle.net/10125/17013 Recent excavations at the site of Ban Bon Noen in central Thailand produced glass beads from cultural deposits dated between 400 B.C. and A.D. 700. Most of the beads at the site fall into the category known as mutisalah and probably originated in India. Their relatively dense occurrence at Ban Bon Noen in nonmortuary contexts suggests that the site may have functioned as a node in a trade network linking Southeast Asia to India during the Iron Age. KEYWORDS: Prehistoric glass beads, Thailand archaeology, prehistoric trade. Wed, 01 Jan 1992 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/17013 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Pilditch, Jacqueline S http://hdl.handle.net/10125/17012 Accelerator Mass Spectrometry radiocarbon dates for rice husks and grains embedded in the fabric of pottery from India, Sarawak, and Bali are presented. Although it is not possible to prove that these specimens are all from cultivated and domesticated rices, their cultural and biogeographical contexts suggest that this was the case. The results can be used to support a dispersal of rice cultivation from the presumed Yangzi homeland to as far as the Ganga Valley and equatorial Malaysia by at least the mid-third millennium B. C. KEYWORDS: Rice, prehistory, India, China, Southeast Asia. Wed, 01 Jan 1992 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/17012 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Bellwood, P; Gillespie, R; Thompson, G B; Vogel, J S; Ardika, I W; Datan, Ipoi http://hdl.handle.net/10125/17011 Palaeolithic sites discovered in southern China in the last 20 years document the human occupation of this region through the Pleistocene. Tool inventories from localities south of33°N latitude and east of the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau have greatly expanded the range of variability in the Palaeolithic of this region. Bone artifacts and stone spheroids, once thought to be confined to northern Chinese Palaeolithic industries, have been recovered from South China sites as well. We see not only the persistence of the chopper/chopping tool tradition from the earliest Palaeolithic assemblages through to terminal Pleistocene sites but also the presence of assemblages dominated by smaller flaked implements, emphasizing the problems involved in equating hominid type and technology. Natural site formation processes affecting assemblage composition are a priority for future archaeological investigations. KEYWORDS: South China, Pleistocene, Palaeolithic, hominid, geoarchaeology. Wed, 01 Jan 1992 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/17011 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Olsen, John W; Miller-Antonio, Sari http://hdl.handle.net/10125/17010 Despite some superficial organizational similarities with the study of archaeology in the West, Japanese archaeology is conducted in a manner that exemplifies aspects of Japanese culture, history, and political economy. Archaeological research is strongly centralized in Japan and guided by national policies, and can be indirectly linked to the National Learning Movement of the nineteenth century. Nationalistic interests are served by prehistoric investigations that emphasize continuity of historical links across time and space. Attention to description and compilation is shared with other disciplines. KEYWORDS: Japanese archaeology, history of archaeology, archaeological interpretation. Wed, 01 Jan 1992 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/17010 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Pearson, Richard http://hdl.handle.net/10125/17009 Wed, 01 Jan 1992 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/17009 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Graves, Michael W http://hdl.handle.net/10125/17008 Wed, 01 Jan 1992 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/17008 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z