Anke Hein
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3584769 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anke Hein |
| NOMBRES | Anke |
| APELLIDO | Hein |
| FIRMA | HEIN A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5052-1504 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 334 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Sanxingdui Site
The Sanxingdui site is a Neolithic and early Bronze Age site in the Sichuan Basin and home to a civilisation unrecorded in Chinese historical sources. Propelled to national prominence by the discovery of extraordinary bronze artefacts between 1986 and 2021, Sanxingdui is a distinctive case study of how field archaeology in a regional setting has been carried out and interpreted, and how it fits into the practice of Chinese archaeology. This chapt…
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Chinese Archaeology in the International Academic Community
Recent years have seen an increased interest in understanding publication patterns in academia and how they reflect and are influenced by broader developments in a given field as well as inherent inequalities and biases, asking questions about whose voices get heard, how, and why. Within Chinese archaeology, the representation and reception of Chinese scholarship in the international academic community have been hotly discussed, using mostly qual…
Frederick McCormick and the China Monuments Society
Frederick McCormick was an American journalist stationed in China in the late Qing dynasty and the early Republican period. He did much to petition for the protection of historical relics with the Chinese government and in 1908 founded the China Monuments Society. However, his name is rarely mentioned now in accounts of Sino-US relations or Chinese cultural heritage management. This chapter draws attention to the importance of McCormick’s work an…
The Mausoleum Complex of Emperor Qin Shihuang
The archaeological discovery of the Terracotta Army within the mausoleum complex of Emperor Qin Shihuang in 1974 and subsequent research on the site have greatly expanded our knowledge of the first empire of China. In the past, this knowledge was mainly derived from the Shiji, or Historical Records, written by Sima Qian in the 1st century BCE. Over the past five decades, archaeological fieldwork at the mausoleum complex has revealed a large quant…
Publication Trends in Research on Human Environment Interactions in Early China
Over the last two decades, there has been a move towards the use of archaeometric analyses such as ancient DNA, isotopic, and paleoenvironmental research to gain deeper insight into past human realities. In China, this can be seen in the growing body of research on ancient human-environment interaction by both archaeologists and palaeoclimatologists citing environmental change as a major factor in cultural and social development over time. In a w…
The Establishment and Working Practices of Chinese Archaeological Institutions from the 1920s to the Present
The 1921 excavation at Yangshao, Henan Province, is generally regarded as the starting point of modern Chinese archaeology. Since then, among the humanities and social sciences, archaeology has become one of the fastest-growing disciplines in China. According to official statistics, as of September 2022, China had 91 archaeological units with the remit to excavate, including seven national-level archaeological institutions, 32 provincial-level ar…
The Oxford Handbook of the History and Practice of Chinese Archaeology
This volume focuses on the history and practice of archaeology in the Sinophere (China and Taiwan). It brings together 48 chapters by a diverse community of international scholars (archaeologists, historians, heritage specialists, and museum professionals) from Asia, Europe, and North America. The chapters cover many of the most significant issues in Chinese archaeology: the discipline’s origins in antiquarian practices at least a millennium old;…
Excavating Andersson
This project investigates archaeological material collected from north-west China in the 1920s and housed at the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm. Finds and archival materials are examined and catalogued to learn about prehistoric cultural interactions and to reconnect discoveries with the original excavation contexts and excavators
The Evolving Landscape of Inquiry
This paper examines the growth of climate change discussions in narratives concerning the development and evolution of human societies in Ancient China over the past two decades. This shift reflects climate’s ascension from a marginal factor to a central player in reconstructions of past human actions and societies. We provide an overview of the expanding research on ancient human–climate interactions in China’s prehistory and early history, emph…
Creating Wusetu (“Five-Coloured Clay)
Technological choices in pottery production, particularly the selection of raw materials, are much discussed for prehistoric periods but have received little scholarly attention in the case of Late Imperial China. In this paper, zisha teapots, which became China’s main tea preparation vessels over the course of the 15th–twentieth century, are presented as a case study to explore the complexity underlying potters’ raw material selection in histori…
Technological transmission of knowledge in Neolithic northwestern China
Thirty-eight Neolithic sherds from Yangshao and Majiayao period contexts were analysed via polarised light microscopy and by scanning electron microscope used with energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM–EDX). Sixteen sherds come from the early Yangshao-period Banpo site in the Wei River Valley, east of Xi’an, 17 from the eponymous site of Majiayao and five from Waguanzui in the upper Yellow River region in eastern Gansu province. SEM–EDX was also us…
Building Fame Through Tea
By examining the Wu family's connection with the origin of zisha teapots, this study investigates how Ming literati used material culture to shape family reputation. It unravels the complicated relationship between Ming dynasty literati and the craft products they appreciated. The paper analyzes Ming and Qing dynasty texts discussing the origins of zisha ware as well as material evidence. This study found that the authors of these texts were all …
Beyond painted pottery
This paper presents a study of ceramics from Northwest China from the Neolithic and Bronze Age ( c . 3300–600 BCE), providing insights into variations in human–ceramic interactions over time and space. Based on macroscopic and petrographic analysis of ceramics from 10 sites, this paper shows that there is much more complexity in ceramic technology than previously thought. It identifies a development from a bi‐modal distinction between painted fin…
Pig domestication and human subsistence at the early Neolithic site of Guanjia (6100-5500 BC), Central China
Implications of the loess record for Holocene climate and human settlement in Heye Catchment, Jiuzhaigou, eastern Tibetan Plateau, Sichuan, China
We examine the Holocene loess record in the Heye Catchment on the margins of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) and China Loess Plateau (CLP) to determine: the region to which the Heye Catchment climate is more similar; temporal change in wind strength; and modification of the loess record by mass wasting and human activity. Luminescence and radiocarbon dating demonstrate loess deposited in two periods: >11–8.6 ka and
Tea for Two
In archaeology, ceramics receive much attention because they are abundant in many archaeological contexts, chronologically sensitive, and provide a good window into past human behaviors, in particular decision-making in ceramic production which reflects past communities of practice and individual actions. While most studies tend to rely heavily on differences in object shape and style to distinguish between different periods and cultural contexts…
Patterns of spread and adoption of millet agriculture along the eastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau
The spread of domesticated crops has commonly occurred alongside broad patterns of long- and short-distance human movements and culture contact across regions. While exchange across Eurasia along the so-called Silk Road has been much discussed, recent work has revealed increasingly more evidence for early north-south contact along the eastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau. Main points of debate concern the timing and direction of the spread of agric…
An exploration of potential raw materials for prehistoric pottery production in the Tao River Valley, Gansu Province, China
Northwest China is known for its Majiayao‐style Neolithic painted pottery which has received much praise for its high level of craftsmanship, yet its chain of production, in particular the step of raw material selection, is still poorly understood. To fill this lacuna, the present study explores the raw materials used in producing these wares from a geological and technological perspective. At its core stands the first geoarchaeological survey co…
Annual Bibliography
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Theory and methods of settlement archaeology - the Chinese contribution
On the international stage, discussions on theoretical and methodological aspects of settlement archaeology tend to be dominated by Anglo-American scholarship associated with the emergence of the New Archaeology's systemic view of culture and its ecological outlook in which settlement pattern analysis became a crucial approach. Few people are aware that a scholar of Chinese origin, K.C. Chang, contributed substantially to these debates already si…
State-Induced Migration and the Creation of State Spaces in Early Chinese Empires
In ancient China, as elsewhere, states did not simply occupy a given territory but actively engaged in the production of space by transforming landscapes, moving populations, and enacting territorial hierarchies, thus creating “state spaces,” to borrow a term coined by James C. Scott. In the case of the early Chinese empires of Qin (221–207 BCE) and Han (202 BCE–220 CE), state-induced migration and settlement were key instruments of military cont…
Rediscovering the largest kiln site in the middle Yangtze River Valley
This paper presents new data from the Husi kiln site, Hubei Province, China, where the unusual size calls into question the primacy of Jingdezhen in porcelain production in medieval China. With its over 180 kilns, the site rivals Jingdezhen in size, yet it has found no mention in textual accounts. The wares produced at Husi include Qingbai and grey-greenish ware of the Tang and the Song periods (seventh to thirteenth century AD). This paper prese…
Complex Pathways Towards Emergent Pastoral Settlements
The Xindian culture of northwest China has been seen as a prototypical example of a transition toward pastoralism, resulting in part from environmental changes that started around 4000 years ago. To date, there has been little available residential data to document how and whether subsistence strategies and community organization in northwest China changed following or in association with documented environmental changes. The Tao River Archaeolog…
Roderick B. Campbell, Archaeology of the Chinese Bronze Age
The Oxford Handbook of the History and Practice of Chinese Archaeology
This volume focuses on the history and practice of archaeology in the Sinophere (China and Taiwan). It brings together 48 chapters by a diverse community of international scholars (archaeologists, historians, heritage specialists, and museum professionals) from Asia, Europe, and North America. The chapters cover many of the most significant issues in Chinese archaeology: the discipline’s origins in antiquarian practices at least a millennium old;…
The Majiayao to Qijia transition
Landscapes of Prehistoric Northwestern Sichuan
We describe a preliminary survey of a relatively unknown part of the eastern Himalayas: northwestern Sichuan. This survey revealed that three phases of occupation are represented across the landscape. Large settlements with dense remains characterize the landscape during the Neolithic (3400–2000 cal b.c.). Following a hiatus in occupation, stone-cist graves characterize the region during the Bronze Age (1450–800 cal b.c.). The lack of settlement …
Considering change with archaeological data
Over the past two decades, environmental studies in research on prehistoric China have been gaining popularity and importance. For Northwest China in particular, climate change, especially the so-called ~4.2k BP event has been seen as the main reason for an alleged collapse of Late Neolithic societies and a transition to pastoral-heavy economies and mobile lifeways. Yet, these explanatory models tend to rely on limited archaeological and environm…
Resettlement strategies and Han imperial expansion into southwest China
Discussions on colonialism are pervasive in western scholarship but are hardly ever applied to the archeology of China. The present paper shows how concepts of colonialism and migration research can be successfully applied to understand Han imperial expansion into southwest China and how the Chinese material can in turn contribute to developing theories and methods of colonialism research further. Taking the Shamaoshan cemetery as a case study, t…
Beyond painted pottery
This paper presents a study of ceramics from Northwest China from the Neolithic and Bronze Age ( c . 3300–600 BCE), providing insights into variations in human–ceramic interactions over time and space. Based on macroscopic and petrographic analysis of ceramics from 10 sites, this paper shows that there is much more complexity in ceramic technology than previously thought. It identifies a development from a bi‐modal distinction between painted fin…
An exploration of potential raw materials for prehistoric pottery production in the Tao River Valley, Gansu Province, China
Northwest China is known for its Majiayao‐style Neolithic painted pottery which has received much praise for its high level of craftsmanship, yet its chain of production, in particular the step of raw material selection, is still poorly understood. To fill this lacuna, the present study explores the raw materials used in producing these wares from a geological and technological perspective. At its core stands the first geoarchaeological survey co…
Complex Pathways Towards Emergent Pastoral Settlements
The Xindian culture of northwest China has been seen as a prototypical example of a transition toward pastoralism, resulting in part from environmental changes that started around 4000 years ago. To date, there has been little available residential data to document how and whether subsistence strategies and community organization in northwest China changed following or in association with documented environmental changes. The Tao River Archaeolog…
The geology of Tianshui‐Qin'an area of the western Loess Plateau and the chemical characteristics of its Neolithic pottery
The difference in the chemical compositions between Neolithic pottery from the eastern and western ends of the northern Chinese Loess Plateau has been known for some time, and a number of possible explanations have been proposed. However, a full understanding of the difference is yet to be achieved. Based on recent geological studies of the Tianshui‐Qin'an area on the western Loess Plateau, the present study establishes a logical connection betwe…
The cultural other and the nearest neighbor
Greater Liangshan is one of the few regions of China where, among 70–80% of Nuosu, the Han are a minority. Instead of the much more common phenomenon of ‘Hanification,’ here we can observe Han absorbing traits of other ethnic groups. Based on two seasons of fieldwork combined with historical texts and previous ethnographic research, this paper discusses this phenomenon, raising issues of ethnic identity and the influence of local circumstances on…
Theory and methods of settlement archaeology - the Chinese contribution
On the international stage, discussions on theoretical and methodological aspects of settlement archaeology tend to be dominated by Anglo-American scholarship associated with the emergence of the New Archaeology's systemic view of culture and its ecological outlook in which settlement pattern analysis became a crucial approach. Few people are aware that a scholar of Chinese origin, K.C. Chang, contributed substantially to these debates already si…
Patterns of spread and adoption of millet agriculture along the eastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau
The spread of domesticated crops has commonly occurred alongside broad patterns of long- and short-distance human movements and culture contact across regions. While exchange across Eurasia along the so-called Silk Road has been much discussed, recent work has revealed increasingly more evidence for early north-south contact along the eastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau. Main points of debate concern the timing and direction of the spread of agric…
Ceramic production in prehistoric northwest China
Local developments on the Eastern Rim of the Tibetan Plateau
Technological transmission of knowledge in Neolithic northwestern China
Thirty-eight Neolithic sherds from Yangshao and Majiayao period contexts were analysed via polarised light microscopy and by scanning electron microscope used with energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM–EDX). Sixteen sherds come from the early Yangshao-period Banpo site in the Wei River Valley, east of Xi’an, 17 from the eponymous site of Majiayao and five from Waguanzui in the upper Yellow River region in eastern Gansu province. SEM–EDX was also us…
Roderick B. Campbell, Archaeology of the Chinese Bronze Age
Pig domestication and human subsistence at the early Neolithic site of Guanjia (6100-5500 BC), Central China
The ‘Crescent-Shaped Cultural-Communication Belt’
The notion of a "crescent-shaped cultural-communication belt" stretching from Northeast China and Korea along the Tibetan borderlands all the way to Yunnan stands as the late Tong Enzheng's most-cited contribution to the Chinese archaeological discourse (Tong Enzheng 1987). In the 1980s, suggesting such long-distance contact was a bold move. At the time, Chinese and Western scholars alike were afraid of being accused of diffusionistic tendencies …
Early evidence for the use of wheat and barley as staple crops on the margins of the Tibetan Plateau
Significance Adapting agricultural systems to the high-altitude environment of the Tibetan Plateau has long been considered a major challenge for farmers. It has been asserted previously that the ecological characteristics of wheat and barley delayed their spread into East Asia. We argue instead that the ability of these crops to tolerate frost and their low heat requirements facilitated their spread into the high-altitude margins of western Chin…
Excavating the Afterlife
Funerary customs and concepts of the afterlife in early China have been topics of heated discussion over many decades. In recent years, the excavation of well-preserved graves in southern China, so
The Problem of Typology in Chinese Archaeology
Chinese and Western archaeologists (especially those of the anthropologically-oriented tradition) often seem to be talking past each other, not only because they are publishing in different languages, but also because of differences in theory and method. While most of the major theoretical works in Western languages are by now available in Chinese translations, hardly any English-language publications exist that explain Chinese approaches to arch…
Local developments on the Eastern Rim of the Tibetan Plateau
The cultural other and the nearest neighbor
Greater Liangshan is one of the few regions of China where, among 70–80% of Nuosu, the Han are a minority. Instead of the much more common phenomenon of ‘Hanification,’ here we can observe Han absorbing traits of other ethnic groups. Based on two seasons of fieldwork combined with historical texts and previous ethnographic research, this paper discusses this phenomenon, raising issues of ethnic identity and the influence of local circumstances on…
The Burial Record of Prehistoric Liangshan in Southwest China
Early Cultural Developments on the Eastern Rim of the Tibetan Plateau
Research on the eastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau is generally hampered by the lack of established chronologies. The mountains of southwest China in particular are not very well explored. As a point of intersection of various culture-geographic regions and of long-distance exchange networks, the Liangshan region in southwest Sichuan deserves special attention. Unfortunately, this area is usually excluded from studies into the prehistory of south…
Tibetan Plateau, Archaeology of
Ceramic production in prehistoric northwest China
Landscapes of Prehistoric Northwestern Sichuan
We describe a preliminary survey of a relatively unknown part of the eastern Himalayas: northwestern Sichuan. This survey revealed that three phases of occupation are represented across the landscape. Large settlements with dense remains characterize the landscape during the Neolithic (3400–2000 cal b.c.). Following a hiatus in occupation, stone-cist graves characterize the region during the Bronze Age (1450–800 cal b.c.). The lack of settlement …
Resettlement strategies and Han imperial expansion into southwest China
Discussions on colonialism are pervasive in western scholarship but are hardly ever applied to the archeology of China. The present paper shows how concepts of colonialism and migration research can be successfully applied to understand Han imperial expansion into southwest China and how the Chinese material can in turn contribute to developing theories and methods of colonialism research further. Taking the Shamaoshan cemetery as a case study, t…
Tibetan Plateau, Archaeology of
Soil, Hands, and Heads
This study combines an analysis of archaeological remains, geographic background, and ethnoarchaeological research to gain insights into preconditions and processes of pottery making in northern China during the Yangshao period (5000–3000 BCE). Previous research on Neolithic ceramics from this region focused on typochronology while ethnoarchaeological research has largely been limited to southern China, where geology, geomorphology, and thus reso…
Considering change with archaeological data
Over the past two decades, environmental studies in research on prehistoric China have been gaining popularity and importance. For Northwest China in particular, climate change, especially the so-called ~4.2k BP event has been seen as the main reason for an alleged collapse of Late Neolithic societies and a transition to pastoral-heavy economies and mobile lifeways. Yet, these explanatory models tend to rely on limited archaeological and environm…
The geology of Tianshui‐Qin'an area of the western Loess Plateau and the chemical characteristics of its Neolithic pottery
The difference in the chemical compositions between Neolithic pottery from the eastern and western ends of the northern Chinese Loess Plateau has been known for some time, and a number of possible explanations have been proposed. However, a full understanding of the difference is yet to be achieved. Based on recent geological studies of the Tianshui‐Qin'an area on the western Loess Plateau, the present study establishes a logical connection betwe…
A buried past
The Jing-Wei Floodplain, located in Shaanxi, China, has been home to various groups of people over the last 5000 years. Drawing together evidence from archaeology, paleobotany, geomorphology, climate sciences, and history, this paper provides a longue durée study of the local (pre)history of human occupation in this area with a special focus on human adaptation strategies and environmental history. In particular, the study summarizes and evaluate…
State-Induced Migration and the Creation of State Spaces in Early Chinese Empires
In ancient China, as elsewhere, states did not simply occupy a given territory but actively engaged in the production of space by transforming landscapes, moving populations, and enacting territorial hierarchies, thus creating “state spaces,” to borrow a term coined by James C. Scott. In the case of the early Chinese empires of Qin (221–207 BCE) and Han (202 BCE–220 CE), state-induced migration and settlement were key instruments of military cont…
Rediscovering the largest kiln site in the middle Yangtze River Valley
This paper presents new data from the Husi kiln site, Hubei Province, China, where the unusual size calls into question the primacy of Jingdezhen in porcelain production in medieval China. With its over 180 kilns, the site rivals Jingdezhen in size, yet it has found no mention in textual accounts. The wares produced at Husi include Qingbai and grey-greenish ware of the Tang and the Song periods (seventh to thirteenth century AD). This paper prese…
Complex Pathways Towards Emergent Pastoral Settlements
The Xindian culture of northwest China has been seen as a prototypical example of a transition toward pastoralism, resulting in part from environmental changes that started around 4000 years ago. To date, there has been little available residential data to document how and whether subsistence strategies and community organization in northwest China changed following or in association with documented environmental changes. The Tao River Archaeolog…
The Majiayao to Qijia transition
Annual Bibliography
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Theory and methods of settlement archaeology - the Chinese contribution
On the international stage, discussions on theoretical and methodological aspects of settlement archaeology tend to be dominated by Anglo-American scholarship associated with the emergence of the New Archaeology's systemic view of culture and its ecological outlook in which settlement pattern analysis became a crucial approach. Few people are aware that a scholar of Chinese origin, K.C. Chang, contributed substantially to these debates already si…
Implications of the loess record for Holocene climate and human settlement in Heye Catchment, Jiuzhaigou, eastern Tibetan Plateau, Sichuan, China
We examine the Holocene loess record in the Heye Catchment on the margins of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) and China Loess Plateau (CLP) to determine: the region to which the Heye Catchment climate is more similar; temporal change in wind strength; and modification of the loess record by mass wasting and human activity. Luminescence and radiocarbon dating demonstrate loess deposited in two periods: >11–8.6 ka and
Tea for Two
In archaeology, ceramics receive much attention because they are abundant in many archaeological contexts, chronologically sensitive, and provide a good window into past human behaviors, in particular decision-making in ceramic production which reflects past communities of practice and individual actions. While most studies tend to rely heavily on differences in object shape and style to distinguish between different periods and cultural contexts…
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