Edward Allen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 128713 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Edward Allen |
| NOMBRES | Edward |
| APELLIDO | Allen |
| FIRMA | ALLEN E |
| AFILIACIONES | Fudan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5182-7495 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1925 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Reconstructing the Tang Royal Diet in China
This study presents the first isotopic analysis from the skeletal remains of a Tang Dynasty Emperor, casting light on ninth‐century imperial dietary patterns in Chang'an. Compared with northern Chinese populations, the diet of Emperor Xizong diet featured fewer mixed C 3 /C 4 ‐based agricultural products and animal protein than earlier Imperial elites, such as Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou and the Crown Prince of Sui. Poor nutrition in Xizong's lat…
Struggling with Citational Politics as a Pathway to Unlearning and Relearning for Collective Action
There is a growing movement committed to the values of equitable and just citation, but the material practices of altering citational politics are more challenging. For instance, researchers in the Global South are under-cited, but how many citations are enough to correct this bias? How do we best determine when an author is from the Global South to begin with? We present a case study where social and natural science researchers (the authors) spe…
From Technological Variation to Cultural Interaction Networks
This study explores how ceramic technological choices mediated cultural diversity and social interaction at Jinzhai in the Huai River Valley during the Middle Neolithic, a frontier zone affected by population movement and regional reorganization. Using chemical and compositional techniques, it examines connections among raw material selection, tempering, and vessel form within shared burial contexts. Findings show most funerary vessels, including…
Living and Dying Down South
The excavation of the tomb of Zhao Boyun, a seventh‐generation grandson of Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty (960–1279), provides valuable material for studying the state of the Zhao‐Song royal clan, who relocated to the south of China in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127–1279). This study collected tooth dentin, bone, and nail samples from Zhao Boyun's remains for isotopic analysis, attempting to outline his life history. Zhao B…
New Stable Isotope Evidence Sheds Light on Childhood Dietary Shifts in Sichuan Basin After Sanxingdui Collapse
Recent archaeological work has unveiled the achievements of Sanxingdui Culture, yet research on the socioeconomic and demographic history of the northwestern Sichuan Basin following Sanxingdui's decline remains limited. In this study, we conducted the first stable isotope analysis of childhood feeding practices during the Shi'erqiao Culture period (3100–2800 cal. BP), the cultural phase immediately following the decline of Sanxingdui Culture (370…
The Yue site at Jizhong
Excavations at the Jizhong site in eastern China reveal the agricultural and horticultural range of the ancient Yue state, uncovering rice, gourds and fruit seeds, and the integration of proto-urban foodways with state development. This suggests that increasing dietary complexity and urban-rural integration were inherited by the subsequent Qin-Han dynasties
Fingerprints on the Frontier
Fingerprints preserved on archaeological artifacts provide valuable insights into the characteristics of ancient populations. Research in this area has been limited, however, due to the scarcity and poor preservation of fingerprint impressions. In this study, we employed advanced archaeological science techniques to recover two fingerprint phenotypes from 2000‐year‐old ceramic tile remains unearthed at the Shichengzi site in Xinjiang, China. By c…
New Isotopic Data Reveal Dietary Changes Among Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau Biota During the Last Glacial Period
The challenging conditions for human and animal survival in the late Pleistocene due to climatic fluctuations during the Last Glacial Period have been of great interest, but more discoveries are needed to scientifically understand the changes in human/animal lifestyles during this period. In this study, we analysed new stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic data from 13 species of herbivores and omnivores (n = 37) skeletal remains found at the Laoya…
Wood-Use Strategies at a Han Dynasty Military Outpost
The study analyses wood samples recovered from diverse archaeological contexts (a gate, tomb and kiln) at the Shichengzi site, an Eastern Han Dynasty garrison in modern-day Xinjiang dating from the 1st to 2nd centuries AD. The results show extensive exploitation of a single species of conifer (Picea sp.) by Shichengzi residents. The selection and utilisation of this identical species suggest, on the one hand, the widespread use of Picea for build…
Life history of the Yangzi Estuary II shipwreck
Shipwrecks provide invaluable insights into human society and trade. Their unique preservation conditions also mean that they can serve as exceptional biobanks, recording traces of organisms carried aboard or arriving post wreck. Yet only limited research has explored the genetic potential of onboard sediments. Here, the authors present environmental and metagenomic analyses of sediments contained in a large amphora from the 150-year-old Yangzi E…
Pre-Qin and Qin-Han management of wheat agriculture on the southern Loess Plateau
Revealing Coix lacryma-jobi var. lacryma-jobi (Job’s tears) in Han Dynasty burials with evidence from phytolith identification
Coix lacryma-jobi L. (Job’s tears, adlay, yiyi 薏苡in Chinese) is a tropical member of the Poaceae family which is widely grown in southeast Asia for its grain, as medicine and for beads. However, archaeobotanical evidence of Coix from macrofossils or phytoliths remains limited, and the varieties used in ancient China have yet to be identified through research. In this study, the remains of involucral bracts of Coix from two Han Dynasty tombs (2004…
Diet and Cultural Transition in Sixth Century ad China
Scientific archaeology has drawn new attention to the agricultural and pastoral interactions of medieval China and their impact upon Han and non‐Han groups. The aim of this research is to introduce a number of key new stable isotope data pointing to ancient diet, offering a new perspective on the “sinicization” debate in medieval China. While generational shifts between primarily pastoral and agricultural diets occurred prior to the sixth century…
Ancient genomic evidence uncovers a 6th-century cross-border couple between South Asia and East Asia
The Promise and Peril of Coastal Infrastructure
The potential of coastal regimes for supporting permanent human settlement is tempered by the vulnerability of fixed infrastructure to changes in sea levels. First-millennium AD civic-ceremonial centers on the northern Gulf coast of Florida involved the construction of permanent infrastructure in support of regional gatherings that challenged sustainable settlement in the context of regressive sea. Although rising sea was the more common challeng…
A tale of two cities
Production and Social Meaning of Wheel-Thrown Vessels during the Late Longshan Period in the Wei River Valley (Northern China)
Organizational and technological transformations characterized Late Neolithic China within and beyond the Central Plains region. Evidence of the adoption of new ceramics technologies such as the fast wheel provides insight into social dynamics during the Late Longshan period in the Wei River Valley. A case study of the Kangjia site indicates the limited application of the wheel-throwing technique for manufacturing local styles of pottery. This su…
On Moving Showstoppers
Though they weren’t especially fruitful for him, when I think of the mid-1990s, I think of Stephen Sondheim. I listened a lot to his music at that time, but not to a lot of it: three tracks, to be exact, on a cassette called The Magic of the Musicals. This compilation had come out of a touring concert series starring Marti Webb and Mark Rattray, and I’ve since learned it had been recorded in June 1992 at the Bristol Hippodrome, just up the road. …
The end of timelessness? Islomania, radio and the awakening of Lawrence Durrell
This article returns to the life and work of a writer who was once much-lauded in the Anglo-Greek tradition: Lawrence Durrell. It does so with a view to reassessing the repeated expression in Durrell’s writing of a particular fantasy – the philosophy of ‘islomania’, a madness for island life – and to gauging the impact on this fantasy of radio culture. The article deals in depth with Durrell’s official island books – Prospero’s Cell (1945), Refle…
Radio in and around Greece, 1937–61
Exploring gender norms in Neolithic Northern China
Diversity of Late Yangshao Agricultural Practices at Xishanping, NW China
Human isotopic evidence from the Guanzhong Basin casts light on a century of agricultural and pastoral interactions at medieval metropolitan Chang’an during sixth century AD
Noble and commoner in the medieval China capital of Chang’an (modern-day Xi’an) engaged in an intricately intertwined agricultural and pastoral economy. The period represents the peak of the integration of nomadic and agricultural populations in early China. Here we firstly reported human collagen δ 13 C and δ 15 N values for eight middle age nobles whose lifespans cover roughly a century (AD 503–604) and who include a Northern Zhou, Emperor Wu (…
New archaeobotanical evidence for Tolai hare (Lepus tolai) millets-consumption on the Loess Plateau of China
A new post-Liangzhu Lower Yangtze culture
Excavations at Tiaotou reveal evidence for cultural continuity through the late third to the mid first millennia BC. This research explores shifts in subsistence, production and ritual at Tiaotou, and the emergence of the Pishan-Tiaotou Culture (1200-1000 BC). Tiaotou/Pishan-Tiaotou represents a missing link among Taihu Lake archaeological cultures and contributes to our knowledge of complex political formations and cultural change in Bronze Age …
Wood-Use Strategies at a Han Dynasty Military Outpost
The study analyses wood samples recovered from diverse archaeological contexts (a gate, tomb and kiln) at the Shichengzi site, an Eastern Han Dynasty garrison in modern-day Xinjiang dating from the 1st to 2nd centuries AD. The results show extensive exploitation of a single species of conifer (Picea sp.) by Shichengzi residents. The selection and utilisation of this identical species suggest, on the one hand, the widespread use of Picea for build…
Foodways of the Medieval Tibetans on the Silk Road
Located in the Tarim Basin in southern Xinjiang, the Miran site is well known for its so-called “winged angel” frescos and diverse cultural artifacts dating from the Han Dynasty through Tubo Kingdom (~200 BC–900 AD) periods. This essay presents the first integrated archeobotanical and isotopic investigation on the archeobotanical remains at Miran. Our findings suggest that, despite implementing mixed-crop cultivation, Tibetans at Miran became inc…
A tale of two cities
A new post-Liangzhu Lower Yangtze culture
Excavations at Tiaotou reveal evidence for cultural continuity through the late third to the mid first millennia BC. This research explores shifts in subsistence, production and ritual at Tiaotou, and the emergence of the Pishan-Tiaotou Culture (1200-1000 BC). Tiaotou/Pishan-Tiaotou represents a missing link among Taihu Lake archaeological cultures and contributes to our knowledge of complex political formations and cultural change in Bronze Age …
Archaeology in a fragile environment
The Shanghai region is home to millennia of archaeological cultures and a massive modern metropolois. Until recently, this regional history has remained within the overarching framework of a north-China centric archaeology. Throughout the emergence of archaeological cultures in Shanghai and its periphery, however, we can observe striking adaptations to the vulnerability of its landscape, as well as ingenious technical and engineering solutions. T…
Revisiting the collective burial debate
The study of hezangmu, 'collective burials', is an integral part of long-standing debates within Chinese archaeology. Traditional interpretations, shaped by social evolutionary models from the 1950s onwards, link collective burials to descent and inherited identity and status. Our study revisits Yanghai cemetery in Xinjiang, one of the largest Bronze Age cemeteries excavated in China's northwest, using GIS and statistical analyses. Our findings i…
Unemployment amongst Boys in Sheffield
Unemployment amongst Boys in Sheffield
Drug Resistance Study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Canada, February 1, 1993 to January 31, 1994
Our Treaty, Our Inherent Right to Self-Government
This article provides an overview of the Nisga'a Final Agreement (the Treaty), the first comprehensive claims agreement to include recognition of the inherent right of self-government and constitutional protection of this right. This right is of long history to the Nisga'a people (as evidenced by a brief review of the 1913 Petition), to the Nisga'a Final Agreement, and, ultimately, to our defence of the Treaty against the legal challenge to the s…
Towards a history of pneumatics
had grown used by now to the rumble and grumble of commuters, but this correspondent -a visitor to New York City -had arrived at his own conclusion
The Ten Commandments in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Romancing the phone
Introduction
The Form and Function of Prayer in the Student Volunteer Movement, 1886–1914
The founders of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions (SVM) repeatedly affirmed that prayer as a means of accessing the power of the Almighty God was at the foundation of its success. An examination of original sources for the SVM shows that many forms of prayer were practised and encouraged by the movement. Members of the movement sought to make formal prayer meaningful. Participants described how their prayers for provision were a…
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Mixed economy and dried foods
Situated in the middle Hexi corridor, a vital passage of the ancient Silk Road, the Heishuiguo site was a military town on the northwestern frontier of the Han Dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE). To understand the lifestyle of the Heishuiguo population, levels of dental caries and tooth wear were assessed. Archaeological findings and historical records revealed a mixed subsistence strategy dependent upon agricultural production and domesticated animals at …
Foodways of the Medieval Tibetans on the Silk Road
Located in the Tarim Basin in southern Xinjiang, the Miran site is well known for its so-called “winged angel” frescos and diverse cultural artifacts dating from the Han Dynasty through Tubo Kingdom (~200 BC–900 AD) periods. This essay presents the first integrated archeobotanical and isotopic investigation on the archeobotanical remains at Miran. Our findings suggest that, despite implementing mixed-crop cultivation, Tibetans at Miran became inc…
Archaeology in a fragile environment
The Shanghai region is home to millennia of archaeological cultures and a massive modern metropolois. Until recently, this regional history has remained within the overarching framework of a north-China centric archaeology. Throughout the emergence of archaeological cultures in Shanghai and its periphery, however, we can observe striking adaptations to the vulnerability of its landscape, as well as ingenious technical and engineering solutions. T…
Revisiting the collective burial debate
The study of hezangmu, 'collective burials', is an integral part of long-standing debates within Chinese archaeology. Traditional interpretations, shaped by social evolutionary models from the 1950s onwards, link collective burials to descent and inherited identity and status. Our study revisits Yanghai cemetery in Xinjiang, one of the largest Bronze Age cemeteries excavated in China's northwest, using GIS and statistical analyses. Our findings i…
Human isotopic evidence from the Guanzhong Basin casts light on a century of agricultural and pastoral interactions at medieval metropolitan Chang’an during sixth century AD
Noble and commoner in the medieval China capital of Chang’an (modern-day Xi’an) engaged in an intricately intertwined agricultural and pastoral economy. The period represents the peak of the integration of nomadic and agricultural populations in early China. Here we firstly reported human collagen δ 13 C and δ 15 N values for eight middle age nobles whose lifespans cover roughly a century (AD 503–604) and who include a Northern Zhou, Emperor Wu (…
New archaeobotanical evidence for Tolai hare (Lepus tolai) millets-consumption on the Loess Plateau of China
A new post-Liangzhu Lower Yangtze culture
Excavations at Tiaotou reveal evidence for cultural continuity through the late third to the mid first millennia BC. This research explores shifts in subsistence, production and ritual at Tiaotou, and the emergence of the Pishan-Tiaotou Culture (1200-1000 BC). Tiaotou/Pishan-Tiaotou represents a missing link among Taihu Lake archaeological cultures and contributes to our knowledge of complex political formations and cultural change in Bronze Age …
The Mogou Multidisciplinary Investigation Project
Excavation at Mogou, a Bronze Age cemetery containing over 1700 burials and 6000 individuals, has revealed a diverse range of multiple burials. Building on this dataset, the Mogou Multidisciplinary Investigation Project aims to explore connections between kinship, burial space and social organisation in Bronze Age north-west China
On Moving Showstoppers
Though they weren’t especially fruitful for him, when I think of the mid-1990s, I think of Stephen Sondheim. I listened a lot to his music at that time, but not to a lot of it: three tracks, to be exact, on a cassette called The Magic of the Musicals. This compilation had come out of a touring concert series starring Marti Webb and Mark Rattray, and I’ve since learned it had been recorded in June 1992 at the Bristol Hippodrome, just up the road. …
The end of timelessness? Islomania, radio and the awakening of Lawrence Durrell
This article returns to the life and work of a writer who was once much-lauded in the Anglo-Greek tradition: Lawrence Durrell. It does so with a view to reassessing the repeated expression in Durrell’s writing of a particular fantasy – the philosophy of ‘islomania’, a madness for island life – and to gauging the impact on this fantasy of radio culture. The article deals in depth with Durrell’s official island books – Prospero’s Cell (1945), Refle…
Radio in and around Greece, 1937–61
Exploring gender norms in Neolithic Northern China
Diversity of Late Yangshao Agricultural Practices at Xishanping, NW China
Revealing Coix lacryma-jobi var. lacryma-jobi (Job’s tears) in Han Dynasty burials with evidence from phytolith identification
Coix lacryma-jobi L. (Job’s tears, adlay, yiyi 薏苡in Chinese) is a tropical member of the Poaceae family which is widely grown in southeast Asia for its grain, as medicine and for beads. However, archaeobotanical evidence of Coix from macrofossils or phytoliths remains limited, and the varieties used in ancient China have yet to be identified through research. In this study, the remains of involucral bracts of Coix from two Han Dynasty tombs (2004…
Diet and Cultural Transition in Sixth Century ad China
Scientific archaeology has drawn new attention to the agricultural and pastoral interactions of medieval China and their impact upon Han and non‐Han groups. The aim of this research is to introduce a number of key new stable isotope data pointing to ancient diet, offering a new perspective on the “sinicization” debate in medieval China. While generational shifts between primarily pastoral and agricultural diets occurred prior to the sixth century…
Ancient genomic evidence uncovers a 6th-century cross-border couple between South Asia and East Asia
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