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SUMMARY:‘The First Emperor's tomb and Sima Qian - an archaeological inqu
 iry’. - Dr. Lukas Nickel\, SOAS
DTSTART:20071008T160000Z
DTEND:20071008T180000Z
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CONTACT:Dr. Barak Kushner
DESCRIPTION:After studying Sinology\, Oriental Archaeology and East Asian 
 Art History in Berlin\, Halle and Heidelberg\, Lukas Nickel worked from 19
 99 he worked at the Museum of East Asian Art in Cologne. In 2001 Lukas Nic
 kel became research and teaching assistant for Chinese archaeology at Zuri
 ch University\, where he taught on early imperial material culture of Chin
 a\, early Buddhist art and traditional architecture of East Asia. In Zuric
 h he prepared the exhibition and the catalogue Return of the Buddha for th
 e Museum Rietberg\, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Royal Academy 
 in London. The exhibition was later on view at the Arthur M. Sackler Galle
 ry in Washington\, D.C.  Beginning in 2002\, Lukas Nickel organized a join
 t Swiss-Chinese excavation of a Buddhist temple site in Shandong province.
  Since 2004 Lukas holds a joint position as Lecturer in Chinese Archaeolog
 y at SOAS and the Institute of Archaeology\, UCL\, where he teaches on ear
 ly imperial China and on the archaeology of the Silk Road. More recently h
 e worked on ancient Chinese bronze casting techniques and pursued replicat
 ion experiments. He is also contributing to the activities around the Brit
 ish Museum exhibition The First Emperor - China’s Terracotta Army.
LOCATION:Common Room\, Faculty of Oriental Studies
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