JMRAAE EXPEDITION BIBLIOGRAPHY & ADDITIONAL REFERENCES

 

Annual Reports (in boldface)* & Other Publications:

 

Blackwell, B. A. B., J. W. Olsen, A. P. Derevianko, D. Tseveendorj, A. F. R. Skinner, and M. Dwyer (in press).  ESR (Electron Spin Resonance) dating the Paleolithic site at Tsagaan Agui, Mongolia.  Proceedings of the 23rd International Archaeometry Conference, Budapest, April 1998.

 

*Derevianko, A. P., J. W. Olsen, and D. Tseveendorj, editors (1996).  Archaeological Studies Carried Out by the Joint Russian-Mongolian-American Expedition in 1995.  Novosibirsk:  Izdatelstvo, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography.

 

*Derevianko, A. P., J. W. Olsen, and D. Tseveendorj, editors (1998).  Archaeological Studies Carried Out by the Joint Russian-Mongolian-American Expedition in 1996.  Novosibirsk:  Izdatelstvo, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography.

 

*Derevianko, A. P., J. W. Olsen, and D. Tseveendorj, editors (2000).  Archaeological Studies Carried Out by the Joint Russian-Mongolian-American Expedition in 1997 and 1998.  Novosibirsk:  Izdatelstvo, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography.

 

Derevianko, A. P. and V. T. Petrin (1995).  Issledovaniya Peshchernogo Kompleksa Tsagan-Agui na Yuzhnom Fas Gobiskogo Altaiya v Mongolii (Studies of the Tsagaan Agui Cave Complex on the South Face of the Gobi Altai in Mongolia).  Novosibirsk:  Izdatelstvo, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography.

 

Derevianko, A. P., J. W. Olsen, D. Tseveendorj, A. I. Krivoshapkin, V. T. Petrin, and P. J. Brantingham (2000).  The stratified cave site of Tsagaan Agui in the Gobi Altai, (Mongolia).  Archaeology, Ethnology, & Anthropology of Eurasia 1(1): 23-36.

 

Derevianko, A. P., J. W. Olsen, D. Tseveendorj, A. I. Krivoshapkin, V. T. Petrin, and P. J. Brantingham (2000). Mnogosloinaya peshchernaya stoyanka Tsagan Agui v Gobiiskom Altai (Mongolya).  Arkheologiya, Etnografiya, i Antropologiya Evrazii 1(1): 23-36.

 


Derevianko, A. P., J. W. Olsen, E. V. Devyatkin, A. N. Simakova, O. A. Kuliakov, and Z. N. Gnibedenko (2000).  The Tsagan-Agui Cave (Mongolia):  Pleistocene stratigraphy, archaeology, and paleoecology.  Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 8(1): 84-98.

 

Komatsu, G., J. W. Olsen, P. J. Brantingham, and V. R. Baker (2001). Paleoshoreline geomorphology of the Böön Tsagaan Nuur—Tsagaan Nuur system and Orog Nuur:  the Valley of Lakes, Mongolia.  Geomorphology 39(3-4): 83-98.

 

 

 

 

*The illustrated, soft-cover Annual Reports of the Expedition (in Russian and English with Mongolian summaries) are available for US$20.00 each ($60 for all three volumes); first class or airmail postage paid.

 

These three reports summarize the results of the Expedition’s first four field seasons (1995—1998) in Mongolia. 

 

Chapters cover:

·        excavations of stratified Paleolithic remains in Tsagaan Agui and Chikhen Agui caves

·        investigations of open-air assemblages south of the Arts Bogd Uul range and other exposed prehistoric localities in the Gobi and Mongolian Altai

·        reconnaissance of Paleolithic sites and petroglyph localities in arid southern and central Mongolia.

 

Send your check or money order (in US dollars only, please; no credit card accounts) to:

 

Dr. John W. Olsen, Head                  Fax:  520-621-2088

Department of Anthropology             E-mail:  olsenj@email.arizona.edu

The University of Arizona

PO Box 210030

Tucson, Arizona 85721-0030

U.S.A.

 

 


Additional Suggested Readings:

 

Academy of Sciences, Mongolian People’s Republic (1990).  Information Mongolia.  Oxford and New York:  Pergamon Press.

 

Akiner, Shiren, editor (1991).  Mongolia Today.  London:  Kegan Paul International and Central Asia Research Forum.  An excellent companion to Moses and Halkovic 1985.

 

Andrews, Roy Chapman (1926).  On the Trail of Ancient Man.  New York:  Garden City Publishing Company.  See also Andrews 1935.

 

Andrews, Roy Chapman (1932).  The new conquest of Central Asia.  Natural History of Central Asia, Volume 1.  New York:  American Museum of Natural History.

 

Andrews, Roy Chapman (1933).  Explorations in the Gobi Desert.  The National Geographic Magazine, 63(6): 653-716.

 

Andrews, Roy Chapman (1935).  This Business of Exploring.  New York:  G. P. Putnam’s Sons.  The “sequel” to Andrews 1926.

 

Avery, Martha (1996).  Women of Mongolia.  Seattle:  University of Washington Press.

 

Barfield, Thomas J. (1989).  The Perilous Frontier:  Nomadic Empires and China.  Cambridge, MA:  Basil Blackwell.  See also Legg 1995.

 

Beazley, C. Raymond, editor (1903).  The Texts and Versions of John de Plano Carpini and William de Rubruquis.  London:  The Hakluyt Society.  Translated accounts of the first European visitors to Mongolia in the 13th Century.  See also Giovanni 1996.

 

Berger, Patricia and Terese Tse Bartholomew (1995).  Mongolia:  The Legacy of Chinggis Khan.  San Francisco:  Asian Art Museum.  Excellent summary articles with superb illustrations.

 

Berkey, C. P. and N. C. Nelson (1926).  Geology and prehistoric archaeology of the Gobi Desert.  American Museum Novitates 222: 1-16.

 

Bessac, Frank (1965).  Review of Mongolian archaeology.  Asian Perspectives 8(1): 141-147.

 

Brantingham, P. J., J. W. Olsen, J. A. Rech, and A. I. Krivoshapkin (2000).  Raw material quality and prepared core technologies in Northeast Asia.  Journal of Archaeological Science 27: 255-271.

 

Brantingham, P. J., J. W. Olsen, and George B. Schaller (2001).  Lithic assemblages from the Chang Tang Region, Northern Tibet.  Antiquity 75(288): 319-327.

 

Chard, Chester S. (1974).  Northeast Asia in Prehistory.  Madison, WI:  University of Wisconsin Press.

 

Christian, David (1999).  A History of Russia, Central Asia, and Mongolia, Volume 1.  Oxford, England:  Blackwells.

 

Curtin, Jeremiah (1996).  The Mongols:  A History.  Conshohocken, PA:  Combined Books.  Reprint of the 1908 edition by Little, Brown, and Company, Boston.

 

Derev’anko, A. P., editor and compiler (1998).  The Paleolithic of Siberia, New Discoveries and Interpretations.  Novosibirsk:  Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences and Urbana, IL:  University of Illinois Press.  “Derev’anko” is an alternative spelling of “Derevianko”.

 

Fairservis, Walter A. (1993).  The Archaeology of the Southern Gobi of Mongolia.  Durham, NC:  Carolina Academic Press.  Discusses materials collected by the Andrews Expeditions.

 

Gabori, Mikloš (1964).  New data on Paleolithic finds in Mongolia.  Asian Perspectives 7: 105-112.  A report of the Hungarian prehistoric expedition in Mongolia.

 

Gallencamp, Charles (2001).  Dragon Hunter:  Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions.  New York:  Viking.  An up-to-date biography of Andrews.

 

Golden, Peter B. (1992).  An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples.  Turcologica Band 9.  Weisbaden:  Otto Harrassowitz.  Very thorough and comprehensive.

 

Goldstein, Melvyn G. and Cynthia Beall (1994).  The Changing World of Mongolia’s Nomads.  Berkeley:  University of California Press.  Excellent discussion of modern rural Mongolia.

 


Greenway, Paul, R. Storey, and G. Lafitte (1997).  Mongolia.  Second edition.  Hawthorn, Australia:  Lonely Planet Publications.  This is the best practical guide to read and take to Mongolia.  See also Sanders and Bat-Ireedui 1995.

 

Hildinger, Erik (1997).  Warriors of the Steppe:  A Military History of Central Asia, 500 BC to 1700 AD  New York:  Sarpedon.

 

Jacobson, Esther and James E. Meacham (1998).  When Stones Speak:  Mapping and Mongolian Surface Archaeology.  Geo Info Systems 8(2): 15-22.

 

Kielan-Jaworowska, Zofia (1969).  Hunting for Dinosaurs.  York, PA:  The Maple Press.  A report of the Polish-Mongolian dinosaur expeditions.  Interesting for local color…

 

Kwanten, Luc (1979).  Imperial Nomads:  A History of Central Asia, 500-1500.  Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press.

 

Lattimore, Owen (1940).  Inner Asian Frontiers of China.  American Geographical Society Research Series No. 21.  New York:  American Geographical Society.

 

Lattimore, Owen (1941).  Mongol Journeys.  London:  Jonathan Cape.  Essential reading.

 

Legg, Stuart (1995).  The Barbarians of Asia:  The Peoples of the Steppes from 1600 BC  New York:  Barnes & Noble Books.  See especially Chapters 8 & 9 and Barfield 1989.

 

Man, John (1999).  Gobi:  Tracking the Desert.  New Haven:  Yale University Press.  A well written, popular traveler’s account that includes areas surveyed by JMRAAE.

 

Maringer, John (1950).  Contribution to the Prehistory of Mongolia.  Publications of the Sino-Swedish Expeditions, Number 34.  Stockholm:  Tryckeri A.-B. Thule.

 

Maringer, John (1963).  Mongolia before the Mongols.  Arctic Anthropology 1(2): 75-85.

 

Morgan, David (1986).  The Mongols.  Oxford, UK and Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press.

 


Moses, Larry and Stephen Halkovic (1985).  Introduction to Mongolian History and Culture.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press.

 

Nelson, Nels C. (1926).  Notes on the archaeology of the Gobi.  American Anthropologist 28: 305-308.

 

Nelson, Nels C. (1926).  Prehistoric archaeology of the Gobi Desert.  American Museum Novitates 222: 10-16.

 

Nelson, Nels C. (1926).  The Dune-Dwellers of the Gobi.  Natural History 26: 246-251.

 

Novacek, Michael (1996).  Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs.  New York:  Doubleday.  An entertaining and informative account of the American Museum of Natural History’s on-going dinosaur expeditions in Mongolia.

 

Okladnikov, Aleksei Pavlovich (1965).  Paleolithic finds in the region of Lake Orok-Nor.  Arctic Anthropology 3(1): 142-145.

 

Okladnikov, Aleksei Pavlovich (1978).  The Paleolithic of Mongolia.  In Early Paleolithic in South and East Asia, edited by Fumiko Ikawa-Smith.  Pages 317-325.  The Hague:  Mouton.

 

Sanders, Alan J. K. & Jantsangiin Bat-Ireedui (1995).  Mongolian Phrasebook.  Hawthorn, Australia:  Lonely Planet Publications.  See also Greenway et al. 1997.

 

Spuler, Bertold (1996).  History of the Mongols.  New York:  Barnes & Noble Books.

 

Stephan, John (1994).  The Russian Far East:  A History.  Palo Alto, CA:  Stanford University Press.  Not directly Mongolia-related, but fascinating nonetheless!

 

Vishnyatsky, Leonid B. (1999).  The Paleolithic of Central Asia.  Journal of World Prehistory 13(1): 69-122.  Includes an excellent bibliography.

 

Waley, Arthur, translator (1963).  The Secret History of the Mongols, and Other Pieces.  London:  George Allen & Unwin.  A good translation of the most important historical text in the Mongolian corpus.