Jean S Aigner
Biographic Data
| ID | 117419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean S Aigner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean S |
| FAMILY NAME | Aigner |
| SIGNATURE | AIGNER J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 256 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
New information on China's remote past
Wu Rukang and John W. Olsen, eds. Palaeo‐anthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology in the People's Republic of China. Orlando, Florida: Academic Press, 1985. xxviii + 293 pp. including figures, maps, chapter references, and index. $54.00 cloth
Petrographic Analysis of Basalt Artifacts from Three Aleutian Sites
By comparing thin sections of basalt artifacts from three early and middle Holocene Aleutian sites with geological samples, we can infer the location of the artifactual rock source or sources. Contrary to the sources, the comparison shows that the basalt artifacts came from a single flow or closely related flows 15-30 km from all three sites. This finding suggests we should reassess the role of cultural continuity, trade, and exchange in the earl…
Zhoukoudian: A Closer Look [and Comments and Reply]
On-site observations on the faunal collections remaining in Beijing from the prewar excavations of Zhoukoudian are reported. Assessments are made regarding the degree to which these collections represent both the faunal remains removed from the site. Comparative studies of the observed materials are then presented with the aim of assessing the relative roles of hominids and other denning animals. It is concluded that, given our current knowledge …
Archeology: Paleoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology in the People's Republic of China . Wu Rukang and John W. Olsen
Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology in the People's Republic of China
Siberian Paleolithic Archaeology: Approaches and Analytic Methods [and Comments and Replies]
This paper examines the approaches and methods of Soviet archaeologists dealing with the Siberian Paleolithic and with the problem of early man in Siberia and the Far East
Taphonomy at a Distance: Zhoukoudian, "The Cave Home of Beijing Man"? [and Comments and Reply]
Zhoukoudian is often cited as yielding some of the earliest evidence for the use of fire and as documenting "man the hunter" living in caves during the Middle Pleistocene. In addition, it is commonly believed that this important Chinese site documents cannibalism on the part of Middle Pleistocene hominids. We examine the data from Zhoukoudian with several questions in mind: (1) What are the agents responsible for the bone accumulations inside the…
Anthropology in the Arctic: A Critique of Racial Typology and Normative Theory [and Comments and Reply]
The study of prehistory in the North American Arctic suffers from epistemological problems that have been resolved by scholars in other areas. The predominance of normative theory and racial typology as the foundations of Arctic anthropology has confined research in large part to the pursuit of racial and cultural histories and seriously inhibited the generation of hypotheses that address questions of process in either cultural or biological adap…
The "Dyuktai Culture" and New World Origins [and Comments and Reply]
The chronology and affinities of the "Dyuktai culture," an Upper Paleolithic assemblage from northeastern Siberia, are discussed. Geoarchaeological and chronometric data suggest that Dyuktai assemblages are no older than the middle part of the early Sartan Glacial (ca. 18,000 B.P.) and are substantially younger than claimed in the Russian literature. Since Dyuktai assemblages have been argued to resemble those of the New World Paleo-Arctic tradit…
Idaliuk Bay Camp, Umnak Island, Alaska Circa 4200 B.P
Idaliuk Bay is a small Aleut satellite or “spike” camp on the Bering Sea side of Umnak Island dating to 4,200 B.P. Approximately contemporary with lowest levels at the well-known Aleut village site of Chaluka, and with the upper levels at the mid-Holocene Aleut site of Sandy Beach Bay, use of lithic materials and stylistic preferences suggest closer affinity with Sandy Beach Bay base village. The position of the site in relation to habitats commo…
Observations on the Lower Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia [and Comments and Reply]
The "chopper-chopping-tool tradition" proposed by Movius in 1948 as a characterization of Lower Palaeolithic assemblage variability in East Asia is here examined and rejected. It is argued that its uncritical acceptance in the Western literature has resulted in an inaccurate perception of technological variability and change in this vast region. A brief summary of recent primary source material clearly indicates (1) that there are variable quanti…
Physical Anthropology: The People of Asia. Gordon T. Bowles
Toward a New Outline of the Soviet Central Asian Paleolithic [and Comments and Reply]
The ideas about the distribution of the earliest sites in Soviet Central Asia and the character of Paleolithic industries which have been formed by Western archaeologist through the works of Movius, Klein, and Chard are now in need of revision because of the appearance of new material. The increasing possibility of worldwide synchronization of geological and climatological events permits the comparison of the subdivisions of the Soviet Central As…
Editor's Preface
Pleistocene Faunal and Cultural Stations in South China
Important Archaeological Remains from North China
Lubaantun: The Cradle of the East: An Inquiry into the Indigenous Origins of Techniques and Ideas of Neolithic and Early Historic China, 5000–1000 B.C. Ho Ping‐ti
Continuity and Local Evolution in the Neolithic of South China: A Non-Nuclear Approach [and Comments and Reply]
The Neolithic of South China (and of the Far East generally) has traditionally been reconstructed on nuclear-diffusionist models; chronologies and local culture sequences in South China have been related to the rise of agriculture and Neolithic technology in North China, and their subsequent spread into the South, often seen to have resulted from a movement of peoples out of the "nuclear area." Recent data now suggest a generally contemporaneous …
On doing archaeology
Janet Spector. Pre‐historic Midwestern Woodland Indians (a multi‐media teaching kit). Fort Atkinson, WI: Nasco, 1974. Teacher's guide, Handbooks, Databooks 1 and 2, transparencies, slides, artifact replicas and carrying case. $250.00
Research Report: Chronic Disease: A Biocultural Examination of Thalassemia
Bridging the old and new worlds
Chester S. Chard. Northeast Asia In Prehistory. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1974. xvi + 214 pp. Tables, illustrations, maps, chapter bibliographies, and index. $12.50 (cloth)
The dating of Lantian man and his significance for analyzing trends in human evolution
The Lantian fossil hominid cranium from Southern Shensi Province, China, provides the earliest record of Homo erectus in northern east Asia, and is morphologically the most primitive specimen in the entire world. Importantly, the Kungwangling Lantian cranium (calvarium plus face), with associated stone tools in good geologic and paleontological context, is demonstrably both earlier and more primitive than the Choukoutien I remains. Faunal and pal…
Archeology: The Prehistory of China: An Archeological Exploration. Judith M. TREISTMAN
Archeology: Some Aspects of Prehistoric Technology in India. Hasmukh DHIRAJLAL Sankalia. Foreword by D. M. Bose
Zhoukoudian: A Closer Look [and Comments and Reply]
On-site observations on the faunal collections remaining in Beijing from the prewar excavations of Zhoukoudian are reported. Assessments are made regarding the degree to which these collections represent both the faunal remains removed from the site. Comparative studies of the observed materials are then presented with the aim of assessing the relative roles of hominids and other denning animals. It is concluded that, given our current knowledge …
Taphonomy at a Distance: Zhoukoudian, "The Cave Home of Beijing Man"? [and Comments and Reply]
Zhoukoudian is often cited as yielding some of the earliest evidence for the use of fire and as documenting "man the hunter" living in caves during the Middle Pleistocene. In addition, it is commonly believed that this important Chinese site documents cannibalism on the part of Middle Pleistocene hominids. We examine the data from Zhoukoudian with several questions in mind: (1) What are the agents responsible for the bone accumulations inside the…
Observations on the Lower Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia [and Comments and Reply]
The "chopper-chopping-tool tradition" proposed by Movius in 1948 as a characterization of Lower Palaeolithic assemblage variability in East Asia is here examined and rejected. It is argued that its uncritical acceptance in the Western literature has resulted in an inaccurate perception of technological variability and change in this vast region. A brief summary of recent primary source material clearly indicates (1) that there are variable quanti…
The "Dyuktai Culture" and New World Origins [and Comments and Reply]
The chronology and affinities of the "Dyuktai culture," an Upper Paleolithic assemblage from northeastern Siberia, are discussed. Geoarchaeological and chronometric data suggest that Dyuktai assemblages are no older than the middle part of the early Sartan Glacial (ca. 18,000 B.P.) and are substantially younger than claimed in the Russian literature. Since Dyuktai assemblages have been argued to resemble those of the New World Paleo-Arctic tradit…
Toward a New Outline of the Soviet Central Asian Paleolithic [and Comments and Reply]
The ideas about the distribution of the earliest sites in Soviet Central Asia and the character of Paleolithic industries which have been formed by Western archaeologist through the works of Movius, Klein, and Chard are now in need of revision because of the appearance of new material. The increasing possibility of worldwide synchronization of geological and climatological events permits the comparison of the subdivisions of the Soviet Central As…
The dating of Lantian man and his significance for analyzing trends in human evolution
The Lantian fossil hominid cranium from Southern Shensi Province, China, provides the earliest record of Homo erectus in northern east Asia, and is morphologically the most primitive specimen in the entire world. Importantly, the Kungwangling Lantian cranium (calvarium plus face), with associated stone tools in good geologic and paleontological context, is demonstrably both earlier and more primitive than the Choukoutien I remains. Faunal and pal…
Anthropology in the Arctic: A Critique of Racial Typology and Normative Theory [and Comments and Reply]
The study of prehistory in the North American Arctic suffers from epistemological problems that have been resolved by scholars in other areas. The predominance of normative theory and racial typology as the foundations of Arctic anthropology has confined research in large part to the pursuit of racial and cultural histories and seriously inhibited the generation of hypotheses that address questions of process in either cultural or biological adap…
Continuity and Local Evolution in the Neolithic of South China: A Non-Nuclear Approach [and Comments and Reply]
The Neolithic of South China (and of the Far East generally) has traditionally been reconstructed on nuclear-diffusionist models; chronologies and local culture sequences in South China have been related to the rise of agriculture and Neolithic technology in North China, and their subsequent spread into the South, often seen to have resulted from a movement of peoples out of the "nuclear area." Recent data now suggest a generally contemporaneous …
Siberian Paleolithic Archaeology: Approaches and Analytic Methods [and Comments and Replies]
This paper examines the approaches and methods of Soviet archaeologists dealing with the Siberian Paleolithic and with the problem of early man in Siberia and the Far East
Idaliuk Bay Camp, Umnak Island, Alaska Circa 4200 B.P
Idaliuk Bay is a small Aleut satellite or “spike” camp on the Bering Sea side of Umnak Island dating to 4,200 B.P. Approximately contemporary with lowest levels at the well-known Aleut village site of Chaluka, and with the upper levels at the mid-Holocene Aleut site of Sandy Beach Bay, use of lithic materials and stylistic preferences suggest closer affinity with Sandy Beach Bay base village. The position of the site in relation to habitats commo…
Archeology: Some Aspects of Prehistoric Technology in India. Hasmukh DHIRAJLAL Sankalia. Foreword by D. M. Bose
The dating of Lantian man and his significance for analyzing trends in human evolution
The Lantian fossil hominid cranium from Southern Shensi Province, China, provides the earliest record of Homo erectus in northern east Asia, and is morphologically the most primitive specimen in the entire world. Importantly, the Kungwangling Lantian cranium (calvarium plus face), with associated stone tools in good geologic and paleontological context, is demonstrably both earlier and more primitive than the Choukoutien I remains. Faunal and pal…
Archeology: The Prehistory of China: An Archeological Exploration. Judith M. TREISTMAN
Bridging the old and new worlds
Chester S. Chard. Northeast Asia In Prehistory. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1974. xvi + 214 pp. Tables, illustrations, maps, chapter bibliographies, and index. $12.50 (cloth)
On doing archaeology
Janet Spector. Pre‐historic Midwestern Woodland Indians (a multi‐media teaching kit). Fort Atkinson, WI: Nasco, 1974. Teacher's guide, Handbooks, Databooks 1 and 2, transparencies, slides, artifact replicas and carrying case. $250.00
Research Report: Chronic Disease: A Biocultural Examination of Thalassemia
Continuity and Local Evolution in the Neolithic of South China: A Non-Nuclear Approach [and Comments and Reply]
The Neolithic of South China (and of the Far East generally) has traditionally been reconstructed on nuclear-diffusionist models; chronologies and local culture sequences in South China have been related to the rise of agriculture and Neolithic technology in North China, and their subsequent spread into the South, often seen to have resulted from a movement of peoples out of the "nuclear area." Recent data now suggest a generally contemporaneous …
Editor's Preface
Pleistocene Faunal and Cultural Stations in South China
Important Archaeological Remains from North China
Lubaantun: The Cradle of the East: An Inquiry into the Indigenous Origins of Techniques and Ideas of Neolithic and Early Historic China, 5000–1000 B.C. Ho Ping‐ti
Physical Anthropology: The People of Asia. Gordon T. Bowles
Toward a New Outline of the Soviet Central Asian Paleolithic [and Comments and Reply]
The ideas about the distribution of the earliest sites in Soviet Central Asia and the character of Paleolithic industries which have been formed by Western archaeologist through the works of Movius, Klein, and Chard are now in need of revision because of the appearance of new material. The increasing possibility of worldwide synchronization of geological and climatological events permits the comparison of the subdivisions of the Soviet Central As…
Idaliuk Bay Camp, Umnak Island, Alaska Circa 4200 B.P
Idaliuk Bay is a small Aleut satellite or “spike” camp on the Bering Sea side of Umnak Island dating to 4,200 B.P. Approximately contemporary with lowest levels at the well-known Aleut village site of Chaluka, and with the upper levels at the mid-Holocene Aleut site of Sandy Beach Bay, use of lithic materials and stylistic preferences suggest closer affinity with Sandy Beach Bay base village. The position of the site in relation to habitats commo…
Observations on the Lower Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia [and Comments and Reply]
The "chopper-chopping-tool tradition" proposed by Movius in 1948 as a characterization of Lower Palaeolithic assemblage variability in East Asia is here examined and rejected. It is argued that its uncritical acceptance in the Western literature has resulted in an inaccurate perception of technological variability and change in this vast region. A brief summary of recent primary source material clearly indicates (1) that there are variable quanti…
Siberian Paleolithic Archaeology: Approaches and Analytic Methods [and Comments and Replies]
This paper examines the approaches and methods of Soviet archaeologists dealing with the Siberian Paleolithic and with the problem of early man in Siberia and the Far East
Taphonomy at a Distance: Zhoukoudian, "The Cave Home of Beijing Man"? [and Comments and Reply]
Zhoukoudian is often cited as yielding some of the earliest evidence for the use of fire and as documenting "man the hunter" living in caves during the Middle Pleistocene. In addition, it is commonly believed that this important Chinese site documents cannibalism on the part of Middle Pleistocene hominids. We examine the data from Zhoukoudian with several questions in mind: (1) What are the agents responsible for the bone accumulations inside the…
Anthropology in the Arctic: A Critique of Racial Typology and Normative Theory [and Comments and Reply]
The study of prehistory in the North American Arctic suffers from epistemological problems that have been resolved by scholars in other areas. The predominance of normative theory and racial typology as the foundations of Arctic anthropology has confined research in large part to the pursuit of racial and cultural histories and seriously inhibited the generation of hypotheses that address questions of process in either cultural or biological adap…
The "Dyuktai Culture" and New World Origins [and Comments and Reply]
The chronology and affinities of the "Dyuktai culture," an Upper Paleolithic assemblage from northeastern Siberia, are discussed. Geoarchaeological and chronometric data suggest that Dyuktai assemblages are no older than the middle part of the early Sartan Glacial (ca. 18,000 B.P.) and are substantially younger than claimed in the Russian literature. Since Dyuktai assemblages have been argued to resemble those of the New World Paleo-Arctic tradit…
Zhoukoudian: A Closer Look [and Comments and Reply]
On-site observations on the faunal collections remaining in Beijing from the prewar excavations of Zhoukoudian are reported. Assessments are made regarding the degree to which these collections represent both the faunal remains removed from the site. Comparative studies of the observed materials are then presented with the aim of assessing the relative roles of hominids and other denning animals. It is concluded that, given our current knowledge …
Archeology: Paleoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology in the People's Republic of China . Wu Rukang and John W. Olsen
Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology in the People's Republic of China
New information on China's remote past
Wu Rukang and John W. Olsen, eds. Palaeo‐anthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology in the People's Republic of China. Orlando, Florida: Academic Press, 1985. xxviii + 293 pp. including figures, maps, chapter references, and index. $54.00 cloth
Petrographic Analysis of Basalt Artifacts from Three Aleutian Sites
By comparing thin sections of basalt artifacts from three early and middle Holocene Aleutian sites with geological samples, we can infer the location of the artifactual rock source or sources. Contrary to the sources, the comparison shows that the basalt artifacts came from a single flow or closely related flows 15-30 km from all three sites. This finding suggests we should reassess the role of cultural continuity, trade, and exchange in the earl…
Archaeology (20 works) · History (16 works) · Geography (13 works) · China (11 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (11 works) · History (10 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (9 works) · Geology (8 works) · Geology (8 works) · Paleontology (8 works)