Culture history and archaeology of the Asian continent, including most of the countries and cultures in Asia.
An introduction to the Silk Road, and information about the Asian cultures and others who established the road and traveled on it.
The Anatolia region is one of the cradles of urban civilization in Asian culture, and consists of the peninsula of Asia Minor.
Anuradhapura was founded by the Sinhalese king Pandukhabaya as his capital city in 437 BC.
This book on Southeast Asian culture history is an excellent introduction to the culture history of mainland southeast Asia. Charles Higham. 1989. The Archaeology of Mainland Southeast Asia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Asian culture, politics, art, and science, from your About.com guide to Asia for Visitors, Greg Cruey.
Cultural, political, and topographic maps of Asia, from Matt Rosenberg, your About guide to geography.
From the University of Pennsylvania Museum, brief resumes of the various archaeological, and anthropological investigations into the ancient and modern Asian cultures.
The World Atlas of Archaeology is currently under revision. Here is the original index page for Asian culture, including culture history of most Asian countries.
Cave art on Borneo, dated 8000-20000 years old, an article in Archaeology magazine.
Universities which award graduate degrees in archaeology and Asian culture, located in Asia.
Krasnyi Yar is a site in Kazakhstan where the earliest evidence yet for horse domestication has been discovered.
From Russell Ciochon and Jamie James, discussion of the history of the Plain of Jars and the current status.
The Merv Oasis was a stop on the ancient Silk Route between China and the west during the early Iron Age.
An 18th century building on the Irawaddy River; an article by Donald M. Stadtner in Archaeology magazine.
The Great Cave of Niah in an important Middle Paleolithic] archaeological site in Borneo, and part of the Southern Disperal Route argument.
Writing systems of the ancient Asian cultures include oracle bones, a type of artifact found in archaeological sites from the Shang Dynasty in China.
Peter Bellwood's book covers the culture history and archaeology of the Indo-Malaysian portion of Asian culture. Peter Bellwood. 1985. Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago. Academic Press, Orlando.
A good overview of the archaeology of Qatar by Francis Gillespie.
An article on the history of the Silk Road and old sites there including Loulan, Kuqa, Hotan, Turpan, Hami, and Urumqi. From China View.
The Silk Road is the name given to a network of trade routes crossing Asia, first used during the Han Dynasty.
At Hong-Ik University in Seoul; a collection of papers. In Korean and some English.
From the University of California at Los Angeles, a resource aimed at providing teachers with information about Asia cultures.
And why was Hitler so crazy about them? Information about the so-called "Aryan Invasion" of the Asian cultures in the Indian subcontinent, and who the Aryan peoples really were.
