The Mongolian Altai Inventory Project: a Tale of Inquiry and Good Fortune
Date
Thu May 19th 2011, 7:30pm
Event Sponsor
Co-sponsored by the Silk Road Foundation and the Center for East Asian Studies
Location
School of Education - Room 206, 485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford
Speaker:
Silk Road Lecture Series, Spring 2010-2011
Esther Jacobson-Tepfer Maude I. Kerns Professor Emeritus of Asian Art, University of Oregon
This talk will present the course of a project that took 18 years of field work from inception to completion. Within the Altai Mountains of northwest Mongolia, the subject of our inquiry was surface archaeology—rock art, altars, burial mounds, and standing stones—covering a period of more than 12,000 years. The world we discovered and were the first to extensively map and publish lay on the northern boundaries of the Silk Road, in a remote and mountainous region between Central and North Asia.
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