Prehistoric Metallurgy of Xinjiang

Organized by ISAW visiting research scholar Liangren Zhang, this workshop will bring together a group of specialists to share data from other sites in Central Asia, West Asia, Mongolia, and Northwest China and their thoughts in order to allow a more complete understanding of the prehistoric metallurgy of Xianjiang and the role it played in the trade, migration, and transmission of technology across these regions.

Seating is limited, registration required to isaw@nyu.edu.

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PROGRAM

9:00 Welcome: Liangren Zhang

Chair:  Karen Rubinson (ISAW)
9:10 Vincent C. Pigott (ISAW Research Associate)
The Eurasian Appearance of Tin-Bronze Metallurgy: Piercing Together the Big Picture

9:50 Katheryn M. Linduff (University of Pittsburgh)
Ancient Technoscapes: Metallurgical Technology in Eastern Eurasia and East Asia

10:30 Coffee Break

10:50 Michael Frachetti (Washington University, St. Louis)
Mining and Exchange in Bronze Age Semirech’ye: Implications for Regional Technology Transfer

11:30 Liangren Zhang (ISAW & Northwest University)
Prehistoric Metallurgy of Eastern Xinjiang

12:10   Lunch

Chair:  Vincent Pigott
14:00 Ursula Brosseder (IAS, Princeton & Bonn University)
Metallurgical Analyses and its Potential Understanding of Late Iron Age Inner Asia

14:40 Li Zhang (Wissenschaft Kolleg zu Berlin)
How China Became Part of the Bronze Age Eurasian Network: Technological Choice and the Creation of Value

15:20   Tea Break

15:50 Ernst Pernicka (Heidelberg University)
Tin Sources in Central Asia and their Exploitation in the Bronze Age

16:30 Jianjun Mei (Needham Research Institute, London)
Metallurgical Interaction between China and Central Asia during the First Millennium BCE

17:10 Discussion: The next stage of the Prehistoric Metallurgy     
of Xinjiang Project

This is a public event.

To RSVP, please email isaw@nyu.edu.