The “steamship” as mentioned in The Curious Case of the Steamship on the Mekong in this issue. The article speculates that the depiction of the steamship in Tham Phum, a sacred cave with a long religious tradition, might have been painted to memorialize the sinking of La Grandière in 1910 or the Trentinian in 1928.
This issue of Asian Perspectives features the following scholarly works:
Articles
Landscape Evolution and Human Settlement Patterns on Ofu Island, Manu’s Group, American Samoa
Seth Quintus, Jeffery T. Clark, Stephanie S. Day, and Donald P. Schwert
Obscuring the Line between the Living and the Dead: Mortuary Activities inside the Grave Chambers of the Eastern Han Dynasty,
Zhou Ligang
The Curious Case of the Steamship on the Mekong
Noel Hidalgo Tan and Veronica Walker-Vadillo
Okinawa as Transported Landscape: Understanding Japanese Archeological Remains on Tinian Using Ryūkyū Ethnohistory and Ethnography
Boyd Dixon
Early Gold Ornaments of Southeast Asia: Production Trade, and Consumption
Michele H. S. Demandt
Reviews
Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea, 1300-1800
reviewed by Peter V. Lape
Settlement Patterns in the Chifeng Region
reviewed by Jack N. Fenner
4000 Years of Migration and Cultural Exchange: The Archaeology of the Batanes Islands, North Philippines
reviewed by Glenn Summerhayes
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Asian Perspectives is the leading peer-reviewed archaeological journal devoted to the prehistory of Asia and the Pacific region. In addition to archaeology, it features articles and book reviews on ethnoarchaeology, palaeoanthropology, physical anthropology,and ethnography of interest and use to the prehistorian. Occasional special issues focus on single topics.
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