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Life and Afterlife in Ancient China
The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of Chinese civilization still in place today: an extraordinarily challenging geography and environment;...
ISBN: 9780295752365
more detailsAncient Egypt and Early China
State, Society, and Culture
Although they existed more than a millennium apart, the great civilizations of New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1548–1086 BCE) and Han dynasty China (206 BCE–220 CE) shared intriguing similarities. Both were centered around major, flood-prone rivers—the...
ISBN: 9780295748894
more detailsDefining Dvāravatī
The earliest phase of Thai history is an exciting but little understood period that bridged the gap between protohistory and the fully developed historical period. Ten international scholars examine the inception of the Dvāravatī period...
ISBN: 9786162151576
more detailsProtecting Asia’s Heritage
Yesterday and Tomorrow
Asian activists, organizers, critics, teachers, artists, and entrepreneurs have become passionately involved in protecting Asia’s heritage. In this book, twelve principal authors from eleven of the region’s countries present their experience of what has been...
ISBN: 9786162151569
more detailsAncient Ink
The Archaeology of Tattooing
The human desire to adorn the body is universal and timeless. While specific forms of body decoration and the motivations for them vary by region, culture, and era, all human societies have engaged in practices...
ISBN: 9780295742830
more detailsEarly Rock Art of the American West
The Geometric Enigma
A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE
The earliest rock art - in the Americas as elsewhere - is geometric or abstract. Until Early Rock Art in the American West, however, no book-length study has been devoted to...
ISBN: 9780295743615
more detailsBefore Yellowstone
Native American Archaeology in the National Park
Since 1872, visitors have flocked to Yellowstone National Park to gaze in awe at its dramatic geysers, stunning mountains, and impressive wildlife. Yet more than a century of archaeological research shows that the wild landscape...
ISBN: 9780295742205
more detailsOzette
Excavating a Makah Whaling Village
Makah families left the coastal village of Ozette in the 1920s to comply with the federal government’s requirement that they send their children to school, and by doing so they ended nearly two thousand years...
ISBN: 9780295994628
more detailsExcavating the Afterlife
The Archaeology of Early Chinese Religion
In Excavating the Afterlife, Guolong Lai explores the dialectical relationship between sociopolitical change and mortuary religion from an archaeological perspective. By examining burial structure, grave goods, and religious documents unearthed from groups of well-preserved tombs...
ISBN: 9780295994499
more detailsBuilding a Sacred Mountain
The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai
By the tenth century CE, Mount Wutai had become a major pilgrimage site within the emerging culture of a distinctively Chinese Buddhism. Famous as the abode of the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī (known for his habit of...
ISBN: 9780295993522
more detailsIs It a House?
Archaeological Excavations at English Camp, San Juan Island, Washington
Prehistoric houses on the Northwest Coast were built from wood, often within piles of discarded shells, leaving little archaeological evidence from which to confirm their presence. Is It a House? uses multiple lines of evidence...
ISBN: 9780295991474
more detailsGandharan Avadanas
British Library Kharosthi Fragments 1-3 and 21 and Supplementary Fragments A-C
The Gandharan Buddhist Texts series presents editions, translations, and studies of the British Library’s unique collection of Buddhist manuscripts in the Gandhari language, dating from the first century AD. Gandharan Avadanas features editions and studies...
ISBN: 9780295990132
more detailsTwo Gandhari Manuscripts of the "Songs of Lake Anavatapta" (Anavatapta-gatha)
British Library Kharosthi Fragment 1 and Senior Scroll 14
This fifth volume in the Gandharan Buddhist Texts series (GBT) presents two fragmentary manuscripts of the poem "Songs of Lake Anavatapta." Previously known from versions in Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, and Chinese, the two recently discovered...
ISBN: 9780295989051
more detailsFour Gandhari Samyuktagama Sutras
Senior Kharosthi Fragment 5
Four Gandhari Samyuktagama Sutras continues the study of Gandharan Buddhist texts and is the first investigation of a scroll from the Senior Collection of Kharosthi manuscripts. The Senior Collection, which is named after its owner,...
ISBN: 9780295987729
more detailsArchaeology in Washington
Archaeology--along with Native American traditions and memories--holds a key to understanding early chapters of the human story in Washington. This all-new book draws together and brings up to date much of what has been learned...
ISBN: 9780295986968
more detailsA New Version of the Gandhari Dharmapada and a Collection of Previous-Birth Stories
British Library Kharosthi Fragments 16 + 25
This volume continues the detailed examination of the British Library Kharosthi scrolls--extremely fragile and brittle fragments of manuscript on birch-bark rolls. Although their provenance is uncertain, there are strong indications that they came from Hadda...
ISBN: 9780295983080
more detailsThree Gandhari Ekottarikagama-Type Sutras
British Library Kharosthi Fragments 12 and 14
Three Gandhari Ekottarikagama-Type Sutras continues the Gandharan Buddhist Texts studies of the first-century A.D. birch bark scrolls in the British Library's Kharosthi manuscript collection. It describes the text found on two fragments which constitute the...
ISBN: 9780295981857
more detailsA Gandhari Version of the Rhinoceros Sutra
British Library Kharosthi Fragment 5B
Prominent in several Buddhist traditions, the Rhinoceros Sutra espouses the virtues of solitude, explaining the dangers of attachments, prescribing a solitary spiritual life, and discussing the nature of friends and friendship. British Library Fragment 5B...
ISBN: 9780295980355
more detailsAncient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara
The British Library Kharosthi Fragments
As the Dead Sea scrolls have changed our understanding of Judaism and early Christianity, so a set of twenty-nine scrolls recently acquired by the British Library promise to provide a window into a crucial phase...
ISBN: 9780295977690
more detailsRecent Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical Research
Archaeology and Bible--two simple terms, often used together, understood by everybody. But are they understood properly? If so, why are both subject to such controversy? And what can archaeology contribute to our understanding of the...
ISBN: 9780295972619
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