The Archaeology of the Tibetan Plateau

Jade D'Alpoim Guedes is Assistant Professor of anthropology at the University of Washington. She has worked on the Tibetan plateau for the past fifteen years, and co-directives international, collaborative community archaeological project in the Jiuzhaigou National Nature Reserve with speakers of Sharkog Tibetan. Mark Aldenderfer is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship Endowed Chair in the department of anthropology at the University of California, Merced. An archaeologist of high altitude cultural and biological adaptions, he has worked on the Ethiopian, Andean, and Tibetan plateaus. He is the author and co-editor of 11 monographs and over 150 scholarly papers.

• 1. The plateau and its peoples; 2. History of research; 3. Peopling the plateau; 4. Early Agricultural Incursions into Higher Elevation: spread of Millet agriculture and Eastern Tibet (pre-1700 BCE); 5. Economic, demographic, and subsistence transformations on the plateau (2000 BCE- CE); 6. Status, violence and burials on the eastern Tibetan plateau during the pre-imperial period; 7. The Tibetan plateau on the eve of empire; 8. The future of the past on the Tibetan plateau; Bibliography.