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.