The third international congress of the Society for East Asian Archaeology will take place at Chungnam National University in Daejeon from June 16-19 with more than 200 scholars from 14 countries participating.
Professor Sarah M. Nelson of the University of Denver, a specialist in Korean archaeology and president of SEAA, will lead the quadrennial conference.
The past and future of Korean archaeology is the main conference theme, jointly overseen by professors Nelson and Im Hyo-jai of Seoul National University.
Topics include the prospects of gender archaeology in East Asia, the Chinese Neolithic and Bronze ages, social archaeology in Kyushu, Japan, and intercultural relations between Korea and Japan regarding Tsushima archaeology.
Okay, we admit we'd never thought of using "What Lies Beneath". . . What lies beneath
A second summer of archaeological investigation at the last of the old Kankakee Marsh hunting lodges began in a downpour Monday morning.
Notre Dame assistant professor of anthropology Mark Schurr, 47, began laying out a new survey grid on the one-acre grounds of the former Collier Lodge on the river shore at Baums Bridge, assisted by volunteers with the society, which owns the property and hopes to restore the building as a museum.
Based on test diggings at the Lodge last summer after he was contacted by the society, Schurr hopes to unearth a rich lode of undisturbed artifacts dating back as much as 10,000 years in an area that is known to have been an ancient crossroads for trade among Native Americans.
Closer to the present, he would like to uncover items that will add details to the story of the lodge’s glory days as a hunting destination for the likes of Theodore Roosevelt and Gen. Lew Wallace.
For Kankakee Valley Historical Society president John Hodson, the archaeology isn’t so much a matter of digging holes as it is filling in gaps in the local historical record.
Antiquities Market update II US firm eyes pot of gold in Jamaican seas
The Spanish called it The Viper - fang-like reefs off the Jamaican shores promising a treacherous passage for the ships that came to the Caribbean with vast riches on board and plunder in mind. Centuries later, those vessels that succumbed to the elements still lie shipwrecked, their bounty and the history that travelled with them sunk.
Now, plans by an American company to salvage them and keep half the precious metals they carried have prompted accusations of modern-day piracy by critics in Jamaica who blame the government for selling off their national heritage.
Last month the Atlanta-based corporation Admiralty launched an expedition from Port Royal, a colonial-era pirate town once dubbed the "wickedest city on earth" to scour Pedro Bank, an area roughly the size of Jamaica itself, where the wrecks are believed to lie. It plans to search the seas for an estimated 300 ships which between them could yield a bounty worth billions of dollars.