Sarah Milledge Nelson

Sarah Milledge Nelson (born 1931) is an American archaeologist and a professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Denver,^[1] United States.

Nelson was raised in Florida and obtained her PhD from the University of Michigan in 1973.^[2] Nelson is known for her research on the archaeology of East Asia, in particular Korea and northeast China. She has also conducted extensive research in the archaeology of gender^[3][4] and Hongshan culture.

Selected bibliography

• Chulmun Period Villages on the Han River in Korea, Subsistence and Settlement. PhD Dissertation, University of Michigan, 1973.
• The Neolithic of Northeastern China and Korea. Antiquity 64(243):234-248, 1990.
• Gender Hierarchy and the Queens of Silla. In Sex and Gender Hierarchies, edited by B.D. Miller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
• The Archaeology of Korea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-521-40783-4
• The Politics of Ethnicity in Prehistoric Korea. In Kohl, P.L. and C. Fawcett, eds. Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995:218-231.
• (editor) The Archaeology of Northeast China: Beyond the Great Wall. London: Routledge, 1997. ISBN 0-415-11755-0
• Gender in Archaeology: Analyzing Power and Prestige, Walnut Creek: Altamira Press, 1997.
• Megalithic Monuments and the Introduction of Rice into Korea. In The Prehistory of Food: Appetites for Change, edited by C. Gosden and J. Hather, pp. 147–165. London: Routledge, 1999.
• (with K.L. Berry, R.F. Carillo, B.J. Clark, L.E. Rhodes, and D. Saitta) Denver: An Archaeological History. Scholarly Book Services Inc., 2002. ISBN 978-0-8122-3591-3
• (editor) Ancient Queens: Archaeological Explorations, Walnut Creek: Altamira Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-7591-0346-7

See also

• Jeulmun Pottery Period
• Korean Three Kingdoms
• Choi Mong-lyong
• Kim Won-yong
• Richard J. Pearson
• Sim Bong-geun

References

External links

• Interview: Sarah Milledge Nelson on the Shaman Queens of Ancient Korea.