Professional Interests
Dr. Francis Allard is an archaeologist who holds college degrees in biology, museum studies, and anthropology. His research focuses on the prehistory of East Asia, more specifically the region’s early complex societies, nomadic pastoralist societies, and imperial peripheries. He has studied and worked in China at various times since the early 1980s and has carried out fieldwork in China, Vietnam, and Mongolia. His current research project examines the archaeological and historical record of China’s imperial expansion toward the south during the second century BCE–second century CE. In the department, he teaches Biological Anthropology (required of all majors), Culture Area: China, Contemporary Anthropology, and, on occasion Language and Culture and a course on human evolution. He has traveled to Asia with IUP students on numerous occasions.
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Selected Recent Publications
In Press — “Early Complex Societies in Southern China,” Chapter 8 in The Cambridge World Prehistory Vol.2, edited by Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn (Cambridge University Press).
2009 — “The Site of Shixia: What it Can Tell us about the Emergence, Development, and Decline of Socio-political Complexity in pre-Han Lingnan,” in Dongnan Kaogu Yanjiu (Southeast Archaeological Research) Vol. 4, edited by Wu Chunming, pp. 348-352. (Xiamen, China: Xiamen University Press) (in Chinese).
2009 — “Introduction to Part Four “Social Power, Monumentality, and Mobility”, Chapter 17 in Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia. Monuments, Metals and Mobility, edited by Bryan Hanks and Katheryn Linduff, pp. 323-329. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press).
2007 — “Ritual and Horses in Bronze Age and Present-Day Mongolia: Some Preliminary Observations from the Khanuy Valley” (with D. Erdenebaatar, S. Olsen, A. Caralla, and E. Maggiore), 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 — “Social Collapse and Abandonment – Asia/Pacific,” in Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World Vol. 4, editor in chief: Peter Bogucki. (New York, NY: Facts on File).
2006 — “A Xiongnu Tomb Complex: Excavations at Gol Mod 2 Cemetery, Mongolia (2002-05)” (with Miller B., D. Erdenebaatar, and C. Lee). Mongolian Journal of Archaeology, Anthropology and Ethnology 2: 1-34.
2006 — Book review of Nomadic Art of the East Eurasian Steppes, by Emma Bunker, James Watt, and Zhizin Sun. The Journal of Asian Studies 65(2): 410.
2006 — “Recent Archaeological Research in the Khanuy River Valley, Central Mongolia” (with D. Erdenebaatar and J.L. Houle), 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 — “Frontiers and Boundaries: The Han Empire from its Southern Periphery,” Chapter 11 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.
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