Dr. Ilona Bausch

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Dr. Ilona Bausch
Visiting Professor for Japanese Art History

Courses in winter semester 2024/25 ►

Ilona Bausch studied East Asian Archaeology and Japanese Language and Culture in Leiden, Cambridge and Tokyo. Ilona specialises in the archaeology of the Japanese Jōmon period, particularly with regard to early trade, social interaction, rituals and worldview among prehistoric societies. She has written her PhD thesis entitled Jade, Amber, Obsidian and Serpentinite: The Social Context of  Exotic Stone Exchange Networks in Central Japan during the Middle Jōmon Period at the University of Durham.
Beyond her interest on how archaeological and historical heritage is representing past and present identities in modern society; she is also looking into the diversity of archaeological representations in modern museums, media, politics and social movements.

Publications

Upcoming

Ilona Bausch
Jade – From Antiquity to Eternity [working title]
A monograph on the social value and use of jade objects around the world from the prehistory until the present, with a large focus on Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese jade use practices during the Neolithic period. Coming 2024

Latest

Mark Hudson, Junzō Uchiyama, Kati Lindström et al.
Global Processes of Anthropogenesis Characterise the Early Anthropocene in the Japanese Islands
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications vol. 9, 84 (2022)

Mark Hudson, Ilona Bausch, Martine Robbeets et al.
Bronze Age Globalisation and Eurasian Impacts on Later Jōmon Social Change
Journal of World Prehistory vol. 34, 121-158 (2021)