International Curriculum Week of Sichuan University - Special Topic on Asian Archaeology

Lecture Information

Time:

July 8, 2024 - July 13, 2024

8:00-10:45

Location:

Second Teaching Building 101, Wangjiang Campus, Sichuan University

Lecture Introduction

Lecturer:

Yi-jie Zhuang, Associate Professor

Lecturer Introduction:

Currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London (UCL). He graduated from the School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University in 2005 with a bachelor's degree, the School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University in 2008 with a master's degree, and received a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2012. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Merton College, Oxford University in 2012 for one year. He is mainly engaged in teaching and research in Chinese archaeology, Asian archaeology, and environmental archaeology. His research interests lie in ancient water systems and agricultural history in China, exploring the relationship between ancient people and the land through geoarchaeological methods. Currently, he has published more than 20 SCI papers in journals such as Nature Water, PNAS, Journal of Archaeological Science, World Archaeology, CATENA, and The Holocene as the first author or corresponding author, and has co-authored approximately seventy papers.

Course Catalog:

First Lecture History of archaeology in South, Southeast and East Asia

Second Lecture The 鈥楴eolithic Revolution鈥� and its relevance to Asia

Third Lecture Alternative Neolithics in Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia

Fourth Lecture The Urban Revolution: Comparing trajectories in India and China

Fifth Lecture Agricultural diversification, food globalization, and 鈥業ndianization鈥�

Sixth Lecture Archaeological versus textural models of states, empires and religious governmentalities