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January-March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1.
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Archaeology Chinese archaeologists have
discovered 11 possible sections of ruins of the
Great Wall of Qin (221 B.C. and 206 B.C.) and
Han (202 B.C. and 220 A.D.) dynasties in
northeast China's Jilin Province, with four of
them confirmed, according to a report of the
China News Service. The ruins were found in
Tonghua county by a research team organized
by the province at the request of the State
Administration of Cultural Heritage in June, the
service reported Saturday.
Xinhua (Dec. 13, 2009)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-
12/13/content_12640738.htm
Archaeology A secure supply of alcohol appears
to have been part of the human community's
basic requirements much earlier than was long
believed. As early as around 9,000 years ago,
long before the invention of the wheel,
inhabitants of the Neolithic village Jiahu in
China were brewing a type of mead with an
alcohol content of 10 percent, US archaeologist
Patrick McGovern discovered recently.
McGovern analyzed clay shards found during
excavations in China's Yellow River Valley at his
Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory for
Cuisine, Fermented Beverages, and Health at the
University of Pennsylvania Museum.
Spiegel Online (Dec. 24, 2009)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0%2C1518%2
C668642%2C00.html
Archaeology The tomb of Cao Cao, a renowned
warlord and politician in the third century, was
unearthed in Anyang City of central China's
Henan Province, archaeologists said Sunday.
Cao Cao (155-220 A.D.), who built the strongest
and most prosperous state during the Three
Kingdom period (208-280 A.D.), is remembered
for his outstanding military and political talents.
Xinhua (Dec. 27, 2009)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-
12/27/content_12712471.htm
Archaeology Stonewares of the Neolithic Age
have been found in Medog County, Nyingchi
Prefecture, southeastern Tibet, according to the
Nyingchi Prefectural Bureau of Culture, Radio
and Television. During the third national
cultural relics survey, members of the Tibet
Autonomous Regional Survey Team and the
Nyingchi Prefectural Survey Team discovered
34 stonewares and collected 28 of them,
including axes, adzes and chisels.
Xinhua (Dec. 28, 2009)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/culture/2010-
01/17/c_13140059.htm
Archaeology A rarely seen 400-year-old map
that identified Florida as "the Land of Flowers"
and put China at the centre of the world went on
display on Tuesday at the Library of Congress.
The map created by Matteo Ricci was the first in
Chinese to show the Americas. Ricci, a Jesuit
missionary from Italy, was the first Westerner to
visit what is now Beijing in the late 1500s.
Known for introducing Western science to
China, Ricci created the map in 1602 at the
request of Emperor Wanli.
Iol (Jan. 12, 2010)
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=588
&art_id=nw20100112135337701C944961
Archaeology Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences has announced the country's top six
archaeological discoveries of 2009. Among them
are the Neolithic Ruins at Dongshan Village in
eastern Jiangsu province. The site has evidence
of the earliest Chinese civilization ever found.
The size of the excavation covers more than
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