John Olsen

Research Professor Emeritus

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Central & Inner Asia, especially ethnic Mongolia & ethnic Tibet East Asia, especially China Siberia & the Russian Far East

Research Area

Recent

Labor costs for prehistoric earthwork construction: experimental and archaeological insights from the Lower Yangzi Basin, China.

2015

Disparate technological evolution of West and East: Lithic technological variability and population relations in North China during MIS 3.

2014

Lake-level Reconstruction of the Ngangla Ring Tso Lake System, Southwest Tibetan Plateau

2014

Labor costs for prehistoric earthwork construction: experimental and archaeological insights from the Lower Yangzi Basin, China. American Antiquity

2014

Late Occupation of the High-Elevation Northern Tibetan Plateau

2013

Radioglerodonoe Daterovaniye Paleolitichesnikh Stoyanok v Doline Reki Ikh-Tulberiin-Gol v Severnoi Mongolii Radiocarbon Dating of Paleolithic Sites in the Ikh-Tulberiin-Gol River Valley, Northern Mongolia

2013

Razvitiye Tekologicheskikh Traditsiy Izgotovleniya Orudiy v Kamennykh Industriyakh Rannego Etapa Verkhnego Paleolita Severnoy Mongolii, po Materialam Stoyanok Tolbor-4 i 15 Technological Developments in the Tool-making Tradition of the Early Upper Paleolithic Stone Industry of Northern Mongolia, based on Materials from the Tolbor-4 and 15 Localities)

2013

Halfway to Murun: Shedding New Light on Paleolithic Landscapes of Northern Mongolia

2012

Paleolit Dzungarii Severo-Zapadnii Kitai) po Materialam Mestonakhozhdeniya Lotoshi

2012

The Upper Paleolithic of Mongolia: Recent Finds and New Perspectives

2011

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John Olsen

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Publications(25)

Labor costs for prehistoric earthwork construction: experimental and archaeological insights from the Lower Yangzi Basin, China.

Disparate technological evolution of West and East: Lithic technological variability and population relations in North China during MIS 3.

Lake-level Reconstruction of the Ngangla Ring Tso Lake System, Southwest Tibetan Plateau

Labor costs for prehistoric earthwork construction: experimental and archaeological insights from the Lower Yangzi Basin, China. American Antiquity

Late Occupation of the High-Elevation Northern Tibetan Plateau

Radioglerodonoe Daterovaniye Paleolitichesnikh Stoyanok v Doline Reki Ikh-Tulberiin-Gol v Severnoi Mongolii Radiocarbon Dating of Paleolithic Sites in the Ikh-Tulberiin-Gol River Valley, Northern Mongolia

Halfway to Murun: Shedding New Light on Paleolithic Landscapes of Northern Mongolia

Paleolit Dzungarii Severo-Zapadnii Kitai) po Materialam Mestonakhozhdeniya Lotoshi

The Upper Paleolithic of Mongolia: Recent Finds and New Perspectives

Collaborations(3)

Jay Quade

Steven Kuhn

Anthony Jull

News(31)

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Courses(4)

The Prehistory of East Asia

Foundations of Archaeological Interpretation

The Archaeology of Pre-Han China

Principles of Archaeology