Yun Kuen Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yun Kuen Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yun Kuen |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE Y K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 111 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Mortuary Treatment, Pathology, and Social Relations of the Jiahu Community
Funeral ritual is a projective symbolic system where the treatment received by a deceased individual does not necessarily reflect the social position of that individual when living. Study of past social relations based on mortuary treatment alone is potentially ambiguous. Because many diseases leave indelible marks on the skeleton, human bones provide independent information reflecting the health and behavior of the deceased. Integrating the stud…
Centripetal settlement and segmentary social formation of the Banpo tradition
China before China
Control strategies and polity competition in the lower Yi-Luo Valley, North China
Settlement Patterns and Development of Social Complexity in the Yiluo Region, North China
This international, collaborative, and interdisciplinary archaeological program examines changes in settlement patterns from the early Neolithic to the full development of states (ca. 6500–200 B.C.) in the Yiluo region of central north China. Full-coverage regional surveys are integrated with geoarchaeological investigations, ethnobotanical studies, and lithic analyses. The data are used to assess changes in population, environment, land use, agr…
The early development of music. Analysis of the Jiahu bone flutes
The authors present the musical properties of well-preserved bone flutes recently recovered from Jiahu, an early Neolithic site in central China with a sequence beginning in the seventh millennium BC (Antiquity 77: 31-44). Tonal analyses of five of the flutes indicate a gradual development from four-tone to seven-tone scale. By adding more holes to the pipe, structuring the pitch intervals closer to each other, and by alternating the keynote, the…
Craft Production and Social Change in Northern China . Anne P. Underhill
Settlement Patterns and Development of Social Complexity in the Yiluo Region, North China
Li Liu, Xingcan Chen, Yun Kuen Lee, Henry Wright, Arlene Rosen, Settlement Patterns and Development of Social Complexity in the Yiluo Region, North China, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 29, No. 1/2 (Spring, 2002 - Summer, 2004), pp. 75-100
Differential Resolution in History and Archaeology
History and archaeology often operate on different levels of resolution. Using archaeological means to solve historical questions is at best difficult if not impossible. Historical chronology demands exact dates, whereas archaeological chronology provides only a rough framework of time. Regardless of the recent technological advancement in radiocarbon dating, it still has little impact in the determination of historical chronology. Nevertheless, …
Building the Chronology of Early Chinese History
The generally accepted chronology of Chinese history begins in 841 B.C. , seventy years before the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty. In Shiji , Sima Qian (c. 145-89 B.C. ) compiled a chronological table of twelve contemporary states starting with 841 B.C. Over the past two thousand years, scholars have tried to extend the dates farther back, but without agreement. The Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project was recently commissioned by the Chinese Gover…
Social integration of religion and ritual in prehistoric China
The authors employ examples from Chinese prehistory to demonstrate that religion could maintain and reinforce order in various aspects of social lives
Status, Symbol, and Meaning in the Dian Culture
Material symbols are often used to express social differentiation among human groups. These symbols bear meanings related to the ideology of the society. Therefore, the reconstruction of the organization and meanings of status symbols in archaeology is instrumental to the understanding of the working of past social systems. This paper first concentrates on the isolation of the status symbols in the Dian mortuary environment with multivariate stat…
Leadership Strategies, Economic Activity, and Interregional Interaction
Burials, Pigs, and Political Prestige in Neolithic China [and Comments and Reply]
A Biological Perspective on Yangshao Kinship
Burials, Pigs, and Political Prestige in Neolithic China [and Comments and Reply]
Building the Chronology of Early Chinese History
The generally accepted chronology of Chinese history begins in 841 B.C. , seventy years before the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty. In Shiji , Sima Qian (c. 145-89 B.C. ) compiled a chronological table of twelve contemporary states starting with 841 B.C. Over the past two thousand years, scholars have tried to extend the dates farther back, but without agreement. The Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project was recently commissioned by the Chinese Gover…
Settlement Patterns and Development of Social Complexity in the Yiluo Region, North China
This international, collaborative, and interdisciplinary archaeological program examines changes in settlement patterns from the early Neolithic to the full development of states (ca. 6500–200 B.C.) in the Yiluo region of central north China. Full-coverage regional surveys are integrated with geoarchaeological investigations, ethnobotanical studies, and lithic analyses. The data are used to assess changes in population, environment, land use, agr…
Centripetal settlement and segmentary social formation of the Banpo tradition
Settlement Patterns and Development of Social Complexity in the Yiluo Region, North China
Li Liu, Xingcan Chen, Yun Kuen Lee, Henry Wright, Arlene Rosen, Settlement Patterns and Development of Social Complexity in the Yiluo Region, North China, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 29, No. 1/2 (Spring, 2002 - Summer, 2004), pp. 75-100
The early development of music. Analysis of the Jiahu bone flutes
The authors present the musical properties of well-preserved bone flutes recently recovered from Jiahu, an early Neolithic site in central China with a sequence beginning in the seventh millennium BC (Antiquity 77: 31-44). Tonal analyses of five of the flutes indicate a gradual development from four-tone to seven-tone scale. By adding more holes to the pipe, structuring the pitch intervals closer to each other, and by alternating the keynote, the…
Status, Symbol, and Meaning in the Dian Culture
Material symbols are often used to express social differentiation among human groups. These symbols bear meanings related to the ideology of the society. Therefore, the reconstruction of the organization and meanings of status symbols in archaeology is instrumental to the understanding of the working of past social systems. This paper first concentrates on the isolation of the status symbols in the Dian mortuary environment with multivariate stat…
Mortuary Treatment, Pathology, and Social Relations of the Jiahu Community
Funeral ritual is a projective symbolic system where the treatment received by a deceased individual does not necessarily reflect the social position of that individual when living. Study of past social relations based on mortuary treatment alone is potentially ambiguous. Because many diseases leave indelible marks on the skeleton, human bones provide independent information reflecting the health and behavior of the deceased. Integrating the stud…
Differential Resolution in History and Archaeology
History and archaeology often operate on different levels of resolution. Using archaeological means to solve historical questions is at best difficult if not impossible. Historical chronology demands exact dates, whereas archaeological chronology provides only a rough framework of time. Regardless of the recent technological advancement in radiocarbon dating, it still has little impact in the determination of historical chronology. Nevertheless, …
China before China
Social integration of religion and ritual in prehistoric China
The authors employ examples from Chinese prehistory to demonstrate that religion could maintain and reinforce order in various aspects of social lives
A Biological Perspective on Yangshao Kinship
Burials, Pigs, and Political Prestige in Neolithic China [and Comments and Reply]
Status, Symbol, and Meaning in the Dian Culture
Material symbols are often used to express social differentiation among human groups. These symbols bear meanings related to the ideology of the society. Therefore, the reconstruction of the organization and meanings of status symbols in archaeology is instrumental to the understanding of the working of past social systems. This paper first concentrates on the isolation of the status symbols in the Dian mortuary environment with multivariate stat…
Leadership Strategies, Economic Activity, and Interregional Interaction
Settlement Patterns and Development of Social Complexity in the Yiluo Region, North China
Li Liu, Xingcan Chen, Yun Kuen Lee, Henry Wright, Arlene Rosen, Settlement Patterns and Development of Social Complexity in the Yiluo Region, North China, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 29, No. 1/2 (Spring, 2002 - Summer, 2004), pp. 75-100
Differential Resolution in History and Archaeology
History and archaeology often operate on different levels of resolution. Using archaeological means to solve historical questions is at best difficult if not impossible. Historical chronology demands exact dates, whereas archaeological chronology provides only a rough framework of time. Regardless of the recent technological advancement in radiocarbon dating, it still has little impact in the determination of historical chronology. Nevertheless, …
Building the Chronology of Early Chinese History
The generally accepted chronology of Chinese history begins in 841 B.C. , seventy years before the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty. In Shiji , Sima Qian (c. 145-89 B.C. ) compiled a chronological table of twelve contemporary states starting with 841 B.C. Over the past two thousand years, scholars have tried to extend the dates farther back, but without agreement. The Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project was recently commissioned by the Chinese Gover…
Social integration of religion and ritual in prehistoric China
The authors employ examples from Chinese prehistory to demonstrate that religion could maintain and reinforce order in various aspects of social lives
Craft Production and Social Change in Northern China . Anne P. Underhill
Control strategies and polity competition in the lower Yi-Luo Valley, North China
Settlement Patterns and Development of Social Complexity in the Yiluo Region, North China
This international, collaborative, and interdisciplinary archaeological program examines changes in settlement patterns from the early Neolithic to the full development of states (ca. 6500–200 B.C.) in the Yiluo region of central north China. Full-coverage regional surveys are integrated with geoarchaeological investigations, ethnobotanical studies, and lithic analyses. The data are used to assess changes in population, environment, land use, agr…
The early development of music. Analysis of the Jiahu bone flutes
The authors present the musical properties of well-preserved bone flutes recently recovered from Jiahu, an early Neolithic site in central China with a sequence beginning in the seventh millennium BC (Antiquity 77: 31-44). Tonal analyses of five of the flutes indicate a gradual development from four-tone to seven-tone scale. By adding more holes to the pipe, structuring the pitch intervals closer to each other, and by alternating the keynote, the…
China before China
Centripetal settlement and segmentary social formation of the Banpo tradition
Mortuary Treatment, Pathology, and Social Relations of the Jiahu Community
Funeral ritual is a projective symbolic system where the treatment received by a deceased individual does not necessarily reflect the social position of that individual when living. Study of past social relations based on mortuary treatment alone is potentially ambiguous. Because many diseases leave indelible marks on the skeleton, human bones provide independent information reflecting the health and behavior of the deceased. Integrating the stud…
Archaeology (11 works) · History (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · History (8 works) · China (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (3 works)