Type of Credit: Elective
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The archaeology of Taiwan is inextricably linked with Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific. This link is underscored by the linguistic and archaeological models that suggest population movements and interaction that started at around 7000 years ago, when sea levels stabilized. Archaeological and linguistic modeling suggest that Taiwan played a central role in the expansion of various Malayo-Polynesian groups into Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific. The focus on the Austronesian homeland in the last three decades, however, stagnated archaeological investigations because some archaeologists were looking to prove the connections among pottery, plants, animals, and people that moved around the region. Debates about the role of island cultures in the complex interactions in the region were largely ignored. This seminar provides a venue to discuss these issues and debates, which will hopefully inspire discussions on linkages and diversity, rather than conflation of artifacts and ethnicity.
We will examine evidence for long-distance voyaging, the human colonization of previously uninhabited landscapes, and highlight the Indigenous history of Taiwan and how the issues faced by Indigenous Taiwanese resonate with Indigenous peoples around the world.
We view these themes in terms of general ecological adaptations and frame our explanations of these transitions through a comparative archaeological perspective. We discuss methodological and theoretical issues germane to SE Asian and Taiwan archaeology, from uses of ethnographic analogy and historical records as data sources to applications of anthropological notions of ethnicity, culture change, and political economy to the archaeological record.
The course is open to both undergraduate and graduate students.
能力項目說明
By the end of this course students will be able to:
Writing assignments consist of a research paper (12 pp + bibliography) and two short essays (2 pp + bibliography) (see last page of syllabus for details). Steps in completing the research paper, all of which will involve written feedback and individual discussion, include: selection of topic, submitting a paper outline and preliminary bibliography, submitting a rough draft, revising the rough draft and submitting the final paper. In addition, two (2) presentations (on culture/island group and paper topic) are required.
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Class Schedule and Reading Assignments (Subject to change)
Week 1 Introduction Course Introduction; Course Content and Requirements Readings:
Mark, P. 1999. Archaeological Narratives and other Ways of Telling. Current Anthropology 40(5): 653-678
Terrell, J. 1990. Storytelling and prehistory. Archaeological Method and Theory, 2, 1-29.
Ko, A. M-S, C.-Y. Chen, Q. Fu, F. Delfin, M. Li, H.-L. Chiu, M. Stoneking, and Y.-C. Ko. Early Austronesians: into and out of Taiwan." The American Journal of Human Genetics 94(3): 426-436.
Week 2 Islands and Island Archaeology Area and Archaeological methods Readings:
Donohue, M. and T. Denham. 2010. Farming and Language in Island Southeast Asia: Reframing Austronesian History. Current Anthropology 51(2): 223-256.
Spriggs, M. 2011. Archaeology and the Austronesian expansion: where are we now? Antiquity, 85(328).
Week 3 History and Theory in Taiwan and Southeast Asian Archaeology Readings:
Stark, M.T. 2015. The Archaeology of Southeast Asia. In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), edited by J.D. Wright, pp. 63-69. New York: Elsevier.
Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2020. Decolonizing the Past, Empowering the Future: Community-led Heritage Conservation in Ifugao, Philippines. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, 7(3):1-15, DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2020.1767383
Tsang, C.-H. 1995. New Archaeological Data from Both Sides of the Taiwan Straits and its Implications for the Controversy about the Austronesian Origins and Expansion. In Austronesian Studies Relating to Taiwan, edited by J.-K. LI, pp. 185-227. Austronesian Studies Relating to Taiwan. Taipei: Academia Sinica.
Terrell, J. E. 2004. Introduction: 'Austronesia' and the great Austronesian migration. World Archaeology 36(4): 586-590.
Week 4 Deep History of Taiwan Readings:
Kuo, S.-C. 2019. New Frontiers in the Neolithic Archaeology of Taiwan (5600–1800 BP) A Perspective of Maritime Cultural Interaction, Germany, Springer.
Chiang, C.-H. 2015. "Houses" in the Wansan Society, Neolithic Taiwan. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 39: 151-163.
Hung, H.-C. 2017. Neolithic Cultures in Southeast China, Taiwan, and Luzon. In First Islanders: Prehistory and Human Migration in Island Southeast Asia edited P. by Bellwood, pp. 232-244. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell.
Week 5 Origins of Plant and Animal Domestication; Early Farming Communities in Southeast Asia; What is the Southeast Asian "Neolithic"?Readings:
Bellwood, P. 2005. Asian Farming Diasporas? Agriculture, Languages, and Genes in China and Southeast Asia. In Archaeology of Asia, edited by M. T. Stark, pp. 96-118. Blackwell Publishers, Malden, Massachusetts.
Lee, C.-Y., Chen, M.-L. & Wu, M.-C. 2017. Isotopic Perspectives of Dietary Patterns in Taiwan after the Introduction of Crops. Journal of Archaeological Science 20: 355-361.
Zhang, Chi and Hsiao-Chun Hung. 2010. The Emergence of Agriculture in Southern China. Antiquity 84: 11-25.
Week 6 Asians and Early Seafaring Readings:
Manguin, P. Y. 2019. Sewn Boats of Southeast Asia: the stitched‐plank and lashed‐lug tradition. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 48(2), 400-415.
Calo, A.,P. Bagyo, P. Bellwood. J.W. Lankton, B. Gratuze, T.O. Pryce, A. Reinecke, V. Leusch, H. Schenk, R. Wood, R.A. Bawono, I. D. Kompiang Gede, N. L.K. Citha Yuliati, J. Fenner, C. Reepmeyer, C. Castillo1, and A.K. Carter. 2015. "Sembiran and Pacung on the north coast of Bali: a strategic crossroads for early trans-Asiatic exchange." Antiquity 89, no. 344 (2015): 378-396.
Week 7 Ethnicity, Migration, and Culture Change in Southeast Asia; Peopling of the PacificReadings:
Blust, R. 1995. The Prehistory of the Austronesian-Speaking Peoples: A View from Language. Journal of World Prehistory 9(4):453-510.
Denham, T. 2018. The ‘Austronesian’dispersal in Island Southeast Asia. The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania, 48.
Pugach, I., Hübner, A., Hung, H. C., Meyer, M., Carson, M. T., & Stoneking, M. 2020. Ancient DNA from Guam and the Peopling of the Pacific. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(1).
Peterson, J. A. 2009. The Austronesian moment. Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society 37(2/3), 136-158.
Week 8 Midterm Examination
Week 9 Maritime Interactions Readings:
Wang, K.-W., Lizuka, Y., Hsieh, K.-H., Chen, K.-T., Wang, C.-F. & Jackson, C. 2019. The anomaly of glass beads and glass beadmaking waste at Jiuxianglan, Taiwan. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11, 1391-1405.
Wang, K.-W., K.-T. LI, Y.-K. Hsieh, and C. Jackson. 2021. Glass beads from Guishan in Iron Age Taiwan: inter-regional bead exchange between Taiwan, Southeast Asia and beyond. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 35, 102737
Kanjanajuntorn, Podjanok. 2020. The Three-Age System: A Struggle for Southeast Asian Prehistoric Periodisation." SPAFA Journal 4: 1-25.
Week 10 The Early Modern Period Readings:
Berrocal, M., Herrero, E. S., Moret, M. G., Gonzalez, A. U., Perez, M. T., Rodriguez, S. C., Chevalier, A., Valentin, F. & Tsang, C.-H. 2018. A Comprised Archaeological History of Taiwan through the Long-term Record of Heping Dao, Keelung. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 22: 905-940.
Tsang, C.-H. 1986. A New Perspective on the Historical Archaeology of Taiwan. Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica 57: 601-616.
Wang, L. Y., & Marwick, B. 2020. Standardization of ceramic shape: A case study of Iron Age pottery from northeastern Taiwan. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 33, 102554.
Wang, L. Y., & Marwick, B. 2020. Trade ornaments as indicators of social changes resulting from indirect effects of colonialism in northeastern Taiwan. Archaeological Research in Asia, 24, 100226. Week 11 Deer Skin Trade Readings:
Koo, H. W. 2011. Deer hunting and preserving the commons in Dutch colonial Taiwan. Journal of interdisciplinary history, 42(2), 185-203.
Sprey, I. J., & Hall, K. R. 2020. Ayutthaya’s Seventeenth-Century Deerskin Trade in the Extended Eastern Indian Ocean and South China Sea. In Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World, edited by M. Chaiklin, P. Gooding, and G. Campbell, pp. 217-246. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Yen, Ling-Da. 2017. Maritime Trade and Deerskin in Iron Age Central Taiwan: A Zooarchaeological Perspective. PhD diss., University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Week 12 Archaeological Heritage Readings:
Muyard, F. 2016. Taiwan Archaeology and Indigenous Peoples: Cross-perspectives on Indigenous Archaeology and Interactions between Archaeologists and Indigenous Communities. In Archaeology, History and Indigenous Peoples: New Perspectives on the Ethnic Relations of Taiwan, edited by Li-wan Hung, pp. 195-262. Taipei: Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines.
Karalekas, D. 2019. Understanding Comparative Beliefs Visualized: Pedagogy and the Power of GIS in the Contextualizing of Historical Taiwan. Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology, 43, 1-23.
Week 13 Archaeology of Indigenous Taiwan Readings:
Chen, M.-L. 2019. The Cultural Construction of Space and Migration in Paiwan, Taiwan. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 29: 393-406.
Wu, M.-C. 2019. Mountains, Rivers and Ancestors: the Paiwan Landscape and Social Memory. Time and Mind 12: 317-346.
Chen, M.-L., Chen, Y.-L. & Lee H.-L. 2010. Interpreting the Social Meaning of Different Shapes of House Structures by Examining the Flow of Resources: a Case Study of Saqacengalj at the Southern Tip of Taiwan. Archaeometry 52: 1057-1078.
Weeks 14-17 Presentations
Week 18 Wrap Up
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Your grade will be based on the total number of points you earn in the various class activities, assignments, and exams. There are 100 possible points and their distribution is as follows:
Your grade will be based on the total number of points you earn in the various class activities, assignments, and exams. There are 100 possible points and their distribution is as follows:
Mid-term exam 30
Map quiz 5
Research paper (12 pp + bibliography)
First draft 20
Final draft 20
2 Powerpoint flash presentations (5-10 mins) 10
2 essays (2 pp + bibliography) to accompany
Presentations (5 points x 2) 10
Class participation 5
TOTAL 100
A+ = 98-100 A= 94-97 A- = 90-93
B+ = 87-89 B = 84-86 B- = 80-83
C+ = 77-79 C = 74-76 C- = 70-73
D+ = 67-69 D = 64-66 D- = 60-63
F = 59 or less
* AI writer is not allowed for assignments, and exams.
As suggested in course schedule