JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES

October-December 2009 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume I., Issue 4.
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intensification and low-level food production,"
Kuijt said.
ScienceDaily (Oct. 22, 2009)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/09062315061
9.htm
Archaeology Archaeologist Eva Kaptijn has
given up digging in favour of gathering. With
her colleagues, she has been applying an
intensive field exploration technique: 15 metres
apart, the researchers would walk forward for
50 metres. On the outward leg, they’d pick up
all the earthenware and, on the way back, all of
the other material. This resulted in more than
100,000 finds, varying from about 13,000 years to
just a few decades old.
PhysOrg.com (Nov. 18, 2009)
http://www.physorg.com/news177784568.html
KAZAKHSSTTAN
Archaeology For many centuries, horse
skeletons did not significantly differ in size or
physical structure from those of their wild
ancestors, making early taming and use of the
animal more difficult to identify. But as part of
an international team of archaeologists, my
colleagues and I may be getting closer to the
beginnings as we look for clues in Kazakhstan.
Our team conducted extensive research at three
sites belonging to the Botai culture in the
northern part of the country, at locations dated
to the Copper Age around 3,500 B.C.
LiveScience (Nov. 27, 2009)
http://www.livescience.com/animals/091127-bts-olsenwild-horses-botai.html
KOREEA, ,, NORTTH
Archaeology More than 14,000 pieces of
historical relics and remains belonging to the
Paleolithic Age have been recently unearthed in
the Chongphadae Cavern, Hwangju County,
North Hwanghae Province by archaeologists of
Kim Il Sung University. The cavern is situated
34 km southwest of the Komunmoru Site in
Sangwon County, Pyongyang City which is
known widely as a site of the Old Stone Age.
KCNA (Oct. 24, 2009)
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2009/200910/2009-10-24ee.html
Archaeology The Archaeological Institute under
the Academy of Social Sciences of the DPRK has
discovered two relics of hollows in the Phyodae
archaeological site (discovered in 1994), Honamri,
Samsok District of Pyongyang, where lots of
house sites and installations belonging to the
Neolithic era are concentrated. The hollows
were dug out at southwest and northeast ends
of position No. 7 of the Phyodae archaeological
site. The hollow in the southwest place is called
No. 1 and that in the northeast place is called
No. 2.
KCNA Oct. 5, 2009)
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2009/200910/news05/20091005-
11ee.html
Archaeology Researchers of the Institute of
Archaeology under the Academy of Social
Sciences have recently unearthed a wooden-box
tomb dating back to Ancient Korea in Husan-ri,
Ryonggang County of South Phyongan
Province. The tomb was found under the
ground 1.5 meter deep. It has a hollow of certain
size in which there is the wooden box with the
coffin enshrined in it.
KCNA (Oct. 30, 2009)
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2009/200910/news30/20091030-
02ee.html
Archaeology The three tombs of Kangso show
an aspect of the fine architecture of the Koguryo
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