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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (2): 363–371.
Published: 01 February 1970
... over the entire mainland and Indonesia during the Paleolithic period which embraced the first million years of human evolution. There is growing evidence for the existence of many centers of plant domestication in Asia, each of which appears to have developed out of an indigenous “mesolithic” period...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (3): 652–653.
Published: 01 May 1968
... is with the origins of the Andaman Islanders. He contends that "They represent today the survival almost unchanged of a culture once to be found all over Oceania . . . the way of life which in the Andamans at least was never to change" (p. 144, also cf. p. 35). The culture "dates back at least to the paleolithic era...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (3): 650–652.
Published: 01 May 1968
... all over Oceania . . . the way of life which in the Andamans at least was never to change" (p. 144, also cf. p. 35). The culture "dates back at least to the paleolithic era" (p. 147). No serious effort actually is made to support the panOceanic claim for Andaman culture by systematic comparison...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (3): 594–595.
Published: 01 May 1979
... that he agreed to give the lectures. Presumably to give substance to the lectures, and subsequently to the book, he has included the Indus civilization and other chalcolithic cultures; in fact, these form the bulk of the text. Chapter one (the first lecture) is on "Paleolithic Art," and chapter seven...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (3): 593–594.
Published: 01 May 1979
... that he agreed to give the lectures. Presumably to give substance to the lectures, and subsequently to the book, he has included the Indus civilization and other chalcolithic cultures; in fact, these form the bulk of the text. Chapter one (the first lecture) is on "Paleolithic Art," and chapter seven...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (4): 801–804.
Published: 01 August 1981
... descriptive text presenting data in almost catalogue fashion. Five tables give data on cultural levels of the Paleolithic sites at Sokch'ang-ni, on the typology of Neolithic ceramics (shapes, decorations, and style changes), and a distribution chart of two important "Plain Pottery" (Bronze Age) dwelling sites...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (3): 957–958.
Published: 01 August 1994
...." The Archaeology of Korea, a survey of the peninsular archaeological record from paleolithic times through the conclusion of the Three Kingdoms period in the mid-seventh century, succeeds admirably in realizing Nelson's purpose. As is to be expected in such a demanding and largely unprecedented endeavor...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (3): 629–630.
Published: 01 May 1985
... nature of many of the articles. The first section covers the Paleolithic period of the Potwar Plateau in Northern Pakistan. Contributions by Helen Rendell and R. W. Dennell provide significant implications for Stone Age studies across Asia. The artifactual sequence from the Soan Valley area of the Potwar...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (3): 628–629.
Published: 01 May 1985
... of many of the articles. The first section covers the Paleolithic period of the Potwar Plateau in Northern Pakistan. Contributions by Helen Rendell and R. W. Dennell provide significant implications for Stone Age studies across Asia. The artifactual sequence from the Soan Valley area of the Potwar has...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (3): 732–733.
Published: 01 August 1993
... approach to Japanese archeology, the volume devotes separate chapters to each of the major chronological periods of Japanese antiquity: the Paleolithic (200,000 10,550 B.C Jomon (10,550-400 B.C Yayoi (400 B.C.-A.D. 250), Kofun (A.D. 250 600), and Asuka (A.D. 600 710). Recognizing that this periodization...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1952) 11 (2): 254–256.
Published: 01 February 1952
... developments, the Jomon period, omitting the Yayoi and Iron Age periods because these last overlap the half-legendary chronicles of early Japanese history. Attention is given to the slight and dubious evidence of human habitation during Paleolithic times. But the long span of Jomon development, dating from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (4): 623–646.
Published: 01 August 1977
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, K'o Ho , Peking : Science Press , 1962
. 17 VP, XIII (1975), pp. 122–36. 18 For bibliographic references of Paleolithic discoveries in China up to 1966, see my articles in Arctic Anthropology , I, 2 (1963), pp. 29–61...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (4): 767.
Published: 01 August 1977
... to the compression necessary in a 239-page history that begins with the paleolithic, since almost one-third of the volume is devoted to a discussion of independent India and Pakistan. Meyer, however, is to be congratulated on his succinct and straightforward treatment of the separation of Bangladesh from Pakistan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (3): 575–602.
Published: 01 August 2017
... to represent all Paleolithic hominid groups whose archaeological sites found in China identified them as the direct ancestors of the Chinese people. The most recent estimate is that Peking Man is 770,000 years old (Shen et al. 2009 ). At the time of its discovery, Peking Man pushed back the timeline...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 599–601.
Published: 01 May 2010
... the effects of starvation and then rising after 1550 as improved irrigation, more intense cultivation, and trade raised production above subsistence. A bleak history indeed. Farris begins his account with the Paleolithic populating of the islands before moving to an extended discussion of the Jōmon era...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 17 (1): 5–15.
Published: 01 November 1957
.... The historians were not content with discovering that China had a paleolithic, a neolithic, and a bronze age past. There was still the gap between the late stone age and the bronze. Dr. Li Chi then in 1927 dispatched one of his graduate students at Tsing Hua, Mr. Wu Chin-ting (a striking name that for a budding...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (4): 771.
Published: 01 August 1967
... source for the controversy. Scholars from several countries have contributed learned papers to this volume that honors Robert L'Asie Orientate Aux XIXe et XXe Siedes Chine- Foote, the discoverer of a paleolithic handaxe in Japon-Inde-Sud-Est Asiatique. BY JEAN CHES- Pallavaram, Madras, in 1863. Foote's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (2): 423–424.
Published: 01 February 1979
... of the Midwestern Conference on Asian Affairs held in October 1976 at Ohio University. Paper topics range from paleolithic tool sequences to the adaptive strategies of contemporary Karo Batak migrants, and provide brief ethnographic accounts of more than a half-dozen widely differing populations from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (3): 624–625.
Published: 01 May 1981
.... Chapter Two provides a synoptic description of the most important cultural developments in South India from the Paleolithic through the Megalithic times, ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 242–243.
Published: 01 February 2002
... as well as to the instructor. The second chapter, "Historical Factors Shaping Modern Afghanistan," offers too brief a survey of the premodern history of Afghanistan to prove useful and perhaps goes too far in seeking the origins of the modern Afghan territorial nation in the Middle Paleolithic period...
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