Sarah Milledge Nelson - Jade Dragon

Other books by Sarah Milledge Nelson

FICTION

Spirit Bird Journey

NON-FICTION

The Archaeology of Northeast China

The Archaeology of Korea

Ancestors for the Pigs

Gender in Archaeology

Denver: An Archaeological History

Ancient Queens

In Pursuit of Gender

Equity Issues for Women in Archaeology

Powers of Observation

Han River Chulmuntogi

Studies in Bella Bella Prehistory

Reviews of Spirit Bird Journey,
the first Clara Alden book

This is a delightful book, whimsical yet based on solid scholarship. Bibliophilos, James G. Patterson

Nelson has given us a creative and full-of-life set of images, a truly peopled past. American Antiquity, Margaret Conkey.

This is a lyrical novel, which both entertains and informs without being self-indulgent. Asian Perspectives, Brian Fagan

Nelsons story is a multi-layered, complex study of identity, gender, archaeology, and adoptee issues The story is seamless and well paced. Korean Quarterly, Andrea Lee

Dr. Nelson produces a more rounded sense of life than other [prehistoric] experiments. Antiquity, Nicholas James

This is a good read Would that there were more such books in English. Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch, Gertrude K Ferrar

a marvelous read superbly crafted.
C. Leon McGahee, M.D.

I was absolutely unable to put it down completely absorbing.
William Dolen, M.D.

I just finished your book and I really like it a lot!! The book haunted me for several days after I finished it.

Sociologist and poet Prof. Anne Rankin Mahoney

Many thanks to Marilynn Kreft, who painted the cover based on a photograph of Pig Mountain, and kept urging me to finish the book to display her painting. Mary Kay Gadd was of exceptional help designing the book and dealing with technical details. My colleagues at the University of Denver, Prof. Robert E. Stencel and Prof. Lawrence Conyers read the parts of the story that pertain to their professional expertise astronomy and ground-penetrating radar, respectively, but they are not to be blamed for any remaining errors. My other readers, Eleanor Decker and Christina Kreps, made useful suggestions. Most especially a big, warm hug to Mitch Allen, who slogged through the first two drafts and made enough criticisms to turn the manuscript into this story. Thanks also to Hal, who kept asking when I would be finished writing this book, thus hurrying along the process. Clearly, it cut into our time together.

Funding for several expeditions to China came from The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and National Geographic Societys Fund for Exploration, for which I am grateful, although they didnt fund the novel. Co-explorers over the years are too numerous to mention, but Guo Dashun and Sun Shuodao were the first excavators, who showed me the site in the first place. Yangjin Pak and Hung-jen Niu have been good co-workers throughout our years of exploring the Hongshan culture. Im also grateful to my companions on the trip in 1987 when I first met the Hongshan people: my graduate students Ardith Hunter and Mingming Shan, who have been friends ever since.