Professional Interests
Dr. Allard holds college degrees in biology, museum studies, and anthropology. His research focus is the archaeology of East Asia. He has worked, lived, and studied in China at various times since the early 1980s and has conducted archaeological research in South China, North Vietnam, and Mongolia. His research interests include the development of nomadic pastoralism and the emergence of socially complex societies in various regions of East Asia. He recently completed a six-year field project in Mongolia (which included the participation of IUP students) and is looking to begin a new archaeological project in South China. He teaches classes in Biological and Linguistic Anthropology.
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Selected Recent Publications
2007, Allard, F., D. Erdenebaatar, S. Olsen, A. Caralla, and E. Maggiore. Ritual and Horses in Bronze Age and Present-Day Mongolia: Some Preliminary Observations from the Khanuy Valley, in Social Orders and Social Landscapes, edited by Laura Popova, Charles Hartley, and Adam Smith, pp. 151-167. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press.
2007, Allard, F. Social Collapse and Abandonment – Asia/Pacific, in Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World, edited by Peter Bogucki. New York (NY): Facts on File.
2006, Miller B., F. Allard, D. Erdnebaatar, and C. Lee. A Xiongnu Tomb Complex: Excavations at Gol Mod 2 Cemetery, Mongolia (2002-05). Mongolian Journal of Archaeology, Anthropology and Ethnology 2: 1-34.
2006, Allard, F. Book review of Nomadic Art of the East Eurasian Steppes (Emma Bunker, James Watt, and Zhizin Sun). The Journal of Asian Studies 65(2): 410.
2006, Allard, F., D. Erdenebaatar and J.L. Houle. Recent Archaeological Research in the Khanuy River Valley, Central Mongolia, in Beyond the Steppe and the Sown: Proceedings of the 2002 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology, edited by D.L. Peterson, L.M. Popova, and A.T. Smith, pp. 202-24. Colloquia Pontica Monograph Supplement of Ancient West & East. Leiden, Boston: Brill Academic Publishers.
2006, Allard, F. 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.
2005, Allard, F. and D. Erdenebaatar. Khirigsuurs, Ritual and Mobility in the Bronze Age of Mongolia. Antiquity 79(305): 547-563.
2004, Allard, F. 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, Allard, F., D. Erdenebaatar, N. Batbold, and B. Miller. A Xiongnu Cemetery found in Mongolia. Antiquity 76(293): 637-8.
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