A Womack
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 40824 |
|---|---|
| NOME | A Womack |
| PRENOMES | A |
| SOBRENOME | Womack |
| ASSINATURA | WOMACK A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Furman University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1046-6106 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
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…
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…
Pottery analysis at Guandimiao
Pyrotechnology and Gender in a Medieval China Borderland
During the 2016 and 2017 fieldwork seasons at the site of Qijiaping in Guanghe County, Gansu Province, China, the team of the Tao River Archaeology Project excavated a large intact kiln. The kiln is well preserved, and the first of its kind reported in an archaeological excavation in this region. Several lines of evidence demonstrate that this was a roof tile kiln used during the Song period ( ad 960–1279), possibly associated with the constructi…
Translocal identity construction among Neolithic and Bronze Age communities in northwestern 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
From local to long-distance
During the Neolithic and Bronze Age, goods and ideas moved between Central Asia and the Chinese Central Plain via north-western China. While the crops, animals and technologies exchanged are well documented, the local and social bases of these interactions are poorly known. Here, the authors use petrographic analysis of ceramic sherds from Gansu Province, China, to document the local production of pottery vessels and their circulation between sit…
A preliminary analysis of pottery from the Dantu site, Shandong, China
Initial insights into ceramic production and exchange at the early Bronze Age citadel at Shimao, Shaanxi, China
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
Formation and Function of Majiayao and Qijia Pottery
In the late Neolithic period in northwestern China, pottery was used in a variety of contexts, including in mortuary rituals. While some scholars have interpreted pots placed in graves as being produced solely for use as funerary items, up until now there have only been typological analyses of these vessels. This has resulted in interpretations of grave goods, particularly elaborately painted vases, as representing wealth, ritual power, or the ab…
Assessing site organization and development using geophysical prospection at Dayatou, Gansu, China
A petrographic analysis of clay recipes in Late Neolithic north-western China
Mapping Qijiaping
Recent work at the Qijia Culture type-site of Qijiaping in the Tao River valley of Gansu Province, China, has shed light on the complex nature of this early Bronze Age site. Situated at the intersection between the mixed pastoralists of eastern central Asia and the agriculturalists of China’s northern Central Plain, Qijia peoples absorbed, evolved, and transmitted products and technologies that shaped cultural developments in both directions. The…
The Majiayao to Qijia transition
A petrographic analysis of clay recipes in Late Neolithic north-western China
Initial insights into ceramic production and exchange at the early Bronze Age citadel at Shimao, Shaanxi, China
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…
Mapping Qijiaping
Recent work at the Qijia Culture type-site of Qijiaping in the Tao River valley of Gansu Province, China, has shed light on the complex nature of this early Bronze Age site. Situated at the intersection between the mixed pastoralists of eastern central Asia and the agriculturalists of China’s northern Central Plain, Qijia peoples absorbed, evolved, and transmitted products and technologies that shaped cultural developments in both directions. The…
Translocal identity construction among Neolithic and Bronze Age communities in northwestern China
From local to long-distance
During the Neolithic and Bronze Age, goods and ideas moved between Central Asia and the Chinese Central Plain via north-western China. While the crops, animals and technologies exchanged are well documented, the local and social bases of these interactions are poorly known. Here, the authors use petrographic analysis of ceramic sherds from Gansu Province, China, to document the local production of pottery vessels and their circulation between sit…
A preliminary analysis of pottery from the Dantu site, Shandong, China
Assessing site organization and development using geophysical prospection at Dayatou, Gansu, China
Mapping Qijiaping
Recent work at the Qijia Culture type-site of Qijiaping in the Tao River valley of Gansu Province, China, has shed light on the complex nature of this early Bronze Age site. Situated at the intersection between the mixed pastoralists of eastern central Asia and the agriculturalists of China’s northern Central Plain, Qijia peoples absorbed, evolved, and transmitted products and technologies that shaped cultural developments in both directions. The…
Assessing site organization and development using geophysical prospection at Dayatou, Gansu, China
A petrographic analysis of clay recipes in Late Neolithic north-western China
Formation and Function of Majiayao and Qijia Pottery
In the late Neolithic period in northwestern China, pottery was used in a variety of contexts, including in mortuary rituals. While some scholars have interpreted pots placed in graves as being produced solely for use as funerary items, up until now there have only been typological analyses of these vessels. This has resulted in interpretations of grave goods, particularly elaborately painted vases, as representing wealth, ritual power, or the ab…
Initial insights into ceramic production and exchange at the early Bronze Age citadel at Shimao, Shaanxi, China
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
A preliminary analysis of pottery from the Dantu site, Shandong, 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
From local to long-distance
During the Neolithic and Bronze Age, goods and ideas moved between Central Asia and the Chinese Central Plain via north-western China. While the crops, animals and technologies exchanged are well documented, the local and social bases of these interactions are poorly known. Here, the authors use petrographic analysis of ceramic sherds from Gansu Province, China, to document the local production of pottery vessels and their circulation between sit…
Translocal identity construction among Neolithic and Bronze Age communities in northwestern China
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…
Pottery analysis at Guandimiao
Pyrotechnology and Gender in a Medieval China Borderland
During the 2016 and 2017 fieldwork seasons at the site of Qijiaping in Guanghe County, Gansu Province, China, the team of the Tao River Archaeology Project excavated a large intact kiln. The kiln is well preserved, and the first of its kind reported in an archaeological excavation in this region. Several lines of evidence demonstrate that this was a roof tile kiln used during the Song period ( ad 960–1279), possibly associated with the constructi…
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…
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
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (15 obras) · Archaeology (13 obras) · China (13 obras) · Geography (11 obras) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (10 obras) · History (9 obras) · Ancient history (7 obras) · Pottery (7 obras) · Excavation (5 obras) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (5 obras)