Bishop Museum Press
Titles appearing in Art Book News Annual — February 2008
Lost maritime cultures; China and the Pacific.
Ed. by Tianlong Jiao.
Bishop Museum Press, ©2007 219 p. $49.95 GN386
1-58178-063-X
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, this handsome oversized catalog (9.25x12.25 inches), presents the story of numerous excavations in China of ancient cultures that ultimately settled widely across the Pacific Ocean. The text is divided by excavation, with a description of the site and its history. Color plates accompanying each chapter are of the objects found in situ at the excavation, including many works in carved jade, as well as photos and drawings of the site itself. Several maps are included. The editor is chair of the anthropology department in the Bishop Museum; the contributors are archaeologists and anthropologists mainly in China. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
