Lothar von Falkenhausen

Research concerns the archaeology of the Chinese Bronze Age, focusing on large interdisciplinary and historical issues on which archaeological materials can provide significant new information. Published numerous writings on musical instruments, culminating in his book Suspended Music: Chime-Bells in the Culture of Bronze Age China (1993). Other publications concern ancient Chinese bronzes and their inscriptions, early Chinese ritual, regional cultures, ancient trans-Asiatic contacts, the history of archaeology in East Asia, and methodological issues. His Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000-250BC): The Archaeological Evidence (2006) received the Society for American Archaeology Book Award. Co-Principal Investigator of the University of California, Los Angeles-Peking University joint project on landscape and ancient salt production in the Upper Yangzi River basin (1999-); editor, Journal of East Asian Archaeology, Early China Special Monograph Series. Corresponding member, Deutsches Archologisches Institut; Honorary Research Fellow, Shaanxi Institute of Archaeology.