scholarly journals REVIEW: THREE PERSPECTIVES ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANCIENT CHINA - Li Liu and Xingcan Chen . The Archaeology of China from the Late Paleolithic to the Early Iron Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. - Rowan Flad and Pochan Chen . Ancient Central China, Centers and Peripheries along the Yangzi River. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. - Gideon Shelach-Lavi . The Archaeology of Early China, from Prehistory to the Han Dynasty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2015.

Early China ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 285-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Milledge Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Han Dynasty ◽  
Central China ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Early China ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Late Paleolithic ◽  
Yangzi River

scholarly journals Evidence of ancient DNA reveals the first European lineage in Iron Age Central China

2007 ◽  
Vol 274 (1618) ◽  
pp. 1597-1602 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.Z Xie ◽  
C.X Li ◽  
Y.Q Cui ◽  
Q.C Zhang ◽  
Y.Q Fu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mitochondrial Dna ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Ancient Dna ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Central China ◽  
Population Movement ◽  
Ancient China

Various studies on ancient DNA have attempted to reconstruct population movement in Asia, with much interest focused on determining the arrival of European lineages in ancient East Asia. Here, we discuss our analysis of the mitochondrial DNA of human remains excavated from the Yu Hong tomb in Taiyuan, China, dated 1400 years ago. The burial style of this tomb is characteristic of Central Asia at that time. Our analysis shows that Yu Hong belonged to the haplogroup U5, one of the oldest western Eurasian-specific haplogroups, while his wife can be classified as haplogroup G, the type prevalent in East Asia. Our findings show that this man with European lineage arrived in Taiyuan approximately 1400 years ago, and most probably married a local woman. Haplogroup U5 was the first west Eurasian-specific lineage to be found in the central part of ancient China, and Taiyuan may be the easternmost location of the discovered remains of European lineage in ancient China.

Instructions to Women: Admonitions Texts for a Female Readership in Early China

NAN Nü ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Milburn
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Han Dynasty ◽  
Early China ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
The World ◽  
Peking University ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe texts written for the instruction of women in ancient China are some of the earliest examples of didactic sources aimed at a female readership to be produced anywhere in the world. The oldest surviving texts in the transmitted tradition date to the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE). However, in 2010, Peking University acquired a cache of manuscripts written on bamboo, one of which, the Jiaonü (Instructions to women), predates these Han dynasty admonitions texts by several centuries. This paper provides a full translation of this important text, a discussion of the historical and cultural context in which it was produced, and examines its relationship with the later similar works in the transmitted tradition. The Jiaonü throws new light on the way in which women were educated in appropriate gender roles in ancient China.

Archaeological Investigations at Mavis Grind, Shetland

1983 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Cracknell ◽  
Beverley Smith
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Field System ◽  
M 10 ◽  
Settlement Site

Summary The excavations revealed a stone house and showed that it was oval, 13 m × 10 m, with an interior about 7 m in diameter. In the first occupation phase the entrance was on the SE side. During the second phase this entrance was replaced with one to the NE and the interior was partitioned. The roof was supported on wooden posts. After the building was abandoned it was covered with peat-ash which was subsequently ploughed. There were numerous finds of steatite-tempered pottery and stone implements, which dated the site to late Bronze/early Iron Age. The second settlement, Site B, lay by the shore of the voe and consisted of two possible stone-built houses and a field system. Two trenches were dug across the structures and the results are reported in Appendix I. Although damaged in recent years it was in no further danger.

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