The Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities publishes articles by scholars worldwide on all aspects of prehistoric, ancient and classical East Asia and adjacent regions, including archaeology, art, and architecture; history and philosophy; literature and linguistics; and related fields.
The Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (BMFEA) was started in 1929 as a scientific journal by the then museum director Johan Gunnar Andersson, professor of East Asian archaeology. BMFEA publishes articles by scholars worldwide on all aspects of prehistoric, ancient and classical East Asia and adjacent regions, including archaeology, art, and architecture; history and philosophy; literature and linguistics; and related fields.
2021 marked one hundred years since Johan Gunnar Andersson and his Chinese colleagues excavated a Neolithic settlement site in a small village called Yangshao in Henan Province. The excavation marks a beginning of archaeological fieldwork in China, scholarly communication over Eurasia in the field of archaeology, and the creation of a public institution for the management and display of East Asian material and visual culture in Sweden: The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm, now a part of National Museums of World Culture.
In november 2021 the National Museums of World Culture released the Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities number 82: 100th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Yangshao Culture by Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874–1960)
To commemorate the centenary of the discovery of the Yangshao culture, we are publishing an anniversary volume of the bulletin. You can download an abstract in Chinese and English here.
A digital version of The Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities volume 82 is available for download for free here:
That travellers, material goods, and innovations have moved over Eurasia along a network of roads and paths through history is visible in the archaeological material. Since the 19th century these historical networks are sometimes referred to as the Silk Roads, a term with its own history worth exploring, as is the question of what investments were needed before a traveller could set out along these roads.
These are the themes of Bulletin of the Museum of the Far Eastern Antiquities number 81, 2020 – listen to some of the authors here:
The Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities number 81 is available for donwload for free here (PDF).
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BMFEA vols 1-75 have been scanned in cooperation between Google American universities. You can find them here.
Please note that some pages might have been lost in the digitzation process.
Vol. 76 is available as a digital copy here: BMFEA 76 (PDF).
Vol. 77 is available as a digital copy here: BMFEA 77 (PDF).
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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