Dr. Francis Allard
Ph.D 1996, University of Pittsburgh
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Address:
G12-A McElhaney
Department of Anthropology
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, PA 15705-1069, U.S.A.
Email: allard@iup.edu

Phone: 724-357-2413


Professional Interests:
Dr. Allard is an archaeologist with a Bachellor of Sciences in Biology (McGill University, Canada) and a Bachellor of Arts in Archaeology (Cambridge, UK), a MA in Museum Studies (University of Toronto, Canada) and a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh. He has worked, lived, and studied in China at various times since the early 1980s and has conducted archaeological research in south China and Vietnam. He now directs a project in central Mongolia, focusing on the emergence and development of nomadic pastoralism in that region.


Publications:
2005 "Khirigsuurs, Ritual and Mobility in the Bronze Age of Mongolia", with D. Erdenebaatar. Antiquity 79(305): 547-563.

  "Frontiers and Boundaries: The Han Empire from its Southern Periphery", in Archaeology of Asia, edited by Miriam T. Stark, pp. 233-254. Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology Series. Malden (MA), Oxford (UK), Carlton (Australia): Blackwell Publishing Inc.

2004 "Lingnan and Chu during the First Millennium B.C.: A Reassessment of the Core-Periphery Model", in Guangdong: Archaeology and Early Texts (Zhou-Tang), edited by Shing Muller, Thomas Hollmann, and Putao Gui, pp. 1-21. South China and Maritime Asia Series vol. 13. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.

2002 "A Xiongnu Cemetery found in Mongolia", with D. Erdenebaatar, N. Batbold, and B. Miller. Antiquity 76(293): 637-8.

2001 "Mortuary Ceramics and Social Organization in the Dawenkou and Majiayao Cultures". Special Section: Mortuary Analysis in East Asian Archaeology, Journal of East Asian Archaeology 3(3-4): 1-22.

  "Guest Editors' Preface to the Special Section", with Gideon Shelach. Special Section: Mortuary Analysis in East Asian Archaeology, Journal of East Asian Archaeology 3(3-4): iii-ix.
  Co-editor (with Gideon Shelach) of Special Section: Mortuary Analysis in East Asian Archaeology, Journal of East Asian Archaeology 3(3-4).

  "Southeast China Late Neolithic", in Encyclopedia of Prehistory. Volume 3 : East Asia and Oceania, edited by Peter N. Peregrine and Melvin Ember, pp. 312-328. Published in collaboration with the Human Relations Area Files, Yale University. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

1999 "The Archaeology of Dian: Trends and Tradition". Antiquity 73(279): 77-85.

1998 "Stirrings at the Periphery: History, Archaeology and the Study of Dian". International Journal of Historical Archaeology 2(4): 321-341.

1997 "Growth and Stability among Complex Societies in Prehistoric Lingnan, Southeast China". Papers from the Institute of Archaeology 8: 37-58.

1996 Book review of The Archaeology of Northeast China: Beyond the Great Wall (Sarah M. Nelson, ed.). American Antiquity 61(3): 619.

1995 Interaction and the Emergence of Complex Societies in Lingnan During the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

1994 "Social Complexity and Interaction in Lingnan during the First Millennium B.C." Asian Perspectives 33(2): 309-326.

1992 "Approaches to the Study of Southeast China During the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene". Culture of Guangdong 1-2: 8-13. (in Chinese).


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