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Heishuiguo：A Transit Hub on the Prehistoric Silk Road
Talk by Liangren Zhang, Northwest University at Xi’an, China
Monday, November 25, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
The
Heishuiguo site is a Chalcolithic and Bronze Age settlement located
near Zhangye, which was an important
military outpost and commercial town in the middle of the Hexi
Corridor, a crucial section of the Silk Road that has been channeling
goods, religions, and technologies between East Asia and the
Mediterranean World since the Han Dynasty（206BC-220AD）. The four-season
excavations at Heishuiguo up to 2013 have produced a great quantity of
painted pottery, adobe architecture, metalworking remains, crop seeds,
and animal bones. Dated to 2100-1600BC, the site provides ample evidence
to manifest the vibrant transmission of adobe
architecture construction technology, domesticated wheat, barley, and
sheep and cow from Central Asia, copper metallurgy from the Eurasian
steppe, painted pottery technology and domesticated millet from the
Yellow River valley, and cowry shell from the south.
As a venue of human and cultural traffic, the Silk Road began to
function already in the prehistoric period.
Prof. Liangren Zhang earned his Bachelor degree in 1991 in
Chinese archaeology from Peking University in Beijing, after which he
joined the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,
and began his journey in excavation and research
on Bronze Age archaeology in China, which resulted in several
excavation reports and research articles published thereafter. Since
2000, he began to study Russian archaeology in the Department of Art
History, University of California at Los Angeles. His PhD
dissertation “Ancient Society and Metallurgy”, which was finished in
2007 and published in 2012, unites Bronze Age archaeological materials
from Russian Eastern Europe（from Don River to Ural River）and northern
China to tackle the issue of the development
of social complexity, and the interaction between social complexity and
metallurgy in both regions. Returning to China in 2009, he is now a
professor at Northwest University at Xi’an. In recent years he has been
focusing his research on prehistoric cultural
movements across northern China, Russia, and Central Asia. He is
currently directing an excavation project at a Bronze Age metalworking
settlement of Heishuiguo in Gansu Province and a research project of
prehistoric metallurgy of Xinjiang.
Light lunch will be served.
Cosponsored with the
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