Yale University Publications in Anthropology, Yale Peabody Museum – serie

Archaeological investigations advance current knowledge of prehistoric Andean societies with this groundbreaking study of Chinchawas, a small village community of the Recuay culture, in the first millennium AD. Published by the Yale Department of Anthropology and the Yale Peabody Museum. Distributed by Yale University Press.

In 1946 and 1953, Irving “Ben” Rouse led archaeological excavations at prehistoric to protohistoric sites on the island of Trinidad. This book presents an analysis of these excavations—until now unpublished—relating the results of Rouse’s work to subsequent research at these sites by other investigators and to current knowledge of Trinidad’s cultural sequence and Amerindian ethnohistory. The first detailed study of indigenous cultural development in Trinidad covering its entire pre-Columbian through the historical Amerindian sequence, this work is a significant addition to the data on Caribbean archaeology. Distributed for the Yale Peabody Museum

A new perspective on early Andean civilization focused on emergent social complexity during the first and second millennia B.C.This Yale University Publications in Anthropology volume presents investigations of Peruvian archaeological sites, focusing on early developments in coastal, highland, and cloud forest environments. The contributors provide new perspectives on early Andean civilization by exploring patterns of interaction, authority, and socioeconomic organization during the first and second millennia B.C. in the Central Andes of Peru. Large-scale subjects such as architecture, organization, technology, and ideology are examined, in addition to fine-grained topics including animal bones, pottery style and technology, site orientation, and religious iconography. Distributed for the Yale Peabody Museum

A comprehensive account of a pioneering archaeological project in the province of Shandong that transformed understandings of regional settlement patternsFrom 1995 to 2007, researchers from China and the United States conducted a systematic, full-coverage regional archaeological survey in southeastern Shandong Province, China, covering an area of more than 1,400 square kilometers. This pioneering multiyear international project transformed the archaeological understanding of regional settlement patterns from the Neolithic to the Han period in southeastern Shandong. As an update of the 2012 synthesis published in Chinese, this volume is the most detailed account of the project in English. The team discovered many new sites, including the earliest known Neolithic settlements in the area, and revealed distinctly different regional settlement patterns in the hinterlands of the two largest late Neolithic sites, Liangchengzhen and Yaowangcheng. The book includes field procedures, methods of analysis, and descriptions of major sites generously illustrated with maps as well as photographs of key artifacts and archaeological localities. Distributed for the Yale Peabody Museum

The first published archaeological survey of the Egiin Gol valley of Mongolia, spanning the last 30,000 years and centering on the integration of local sites and landscape  This is the first complete intensive regional archaeological survey report for Mongolia to be published. It presents the experiences and results of groundbreaking fieldwork that detected ephemeral steppe settlement sites, extensive monumental constructions, and changing land use that span the last 30,000 years, from the late Upper Paleolithic to the nineteenth century. Extensive illustrations of monuments and ceramics provide comparative data and local detail in an integrated landscape- and settlement-based approach to the prehistory and history of eastern Eurasia.  The authors examine the place of Egiin Gol in the Xiongnu and Early Turkic polities and reveal the historical landscape of Buddhist monasteries and farms, highlighting this region of northern Mongolia as a historical breadbasket. Throughout, the focus is on the local and immediate archaeology of the Egiin Gol valley, the impetus for change and continuity, and how sites and features worked together to create past cultural landscapes.  This volume is aimed at Eurasian and Mongolian specialists, archaeologists in general, landscape archaeologists, historians of East Asia and Eurasia, environmental historians, and agrarian studies scholars interested in the history and study of pastoralism, including development and rangeland management.  Distributed for the Yale Peabody Museum

Commemorating the life and scholarship of Lingyi Zeng, this volume considers production and exchange within the larger context of early Eurasian societies  This volume commemorates the life and scholarship of Lingyi Zeng, a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Yale University until illness overtook her in 2020. Building on Zeng’s research, which focused on the production, exchange, and consumption of ceramic vessels across Eurasia from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries CE, this book contributes to recent endeavors in the humanities and social sciences by reimagining conventional understandings of the vast region stretching from East Asia to the Middle East. In addition to publishing Zeng’s preliminary results, the contributors take inspiration from her research, expanding on two broad themes that formed the basis of her work: production and exchange. Their research investigates sites, different kinds of ancient remains, and texts leading up to and through the Mongol period. Several studies consider large-scale interactions, while others focus more closely on site-level analyses or analytical methods. Together, they provide a longue durée perspective on the interconnectedness of this region. Using a regional perspective, this volume considers production and exchange within the larger context of Eurasian societies, tracing the varied ways that complex societies developed and the processes that articulated adjacent societies in networks of mutual transformation.