This conference brings together scholars to present papers on the art and archaeology of peripheral regions beyond China's Yellow River valley, traditionally considered to be its cultural and political core. The study of such regions, many of which once were - and in some cases still are - outside China's borders, has played an increasingly important role in our understanding of cultural developments and inter-regional interaction in early East Asia. In recognition of the important contributions made by Professor Katheryn Linduff to the study of China's frontier regions, a group of 20 archaeologists and art historians, whose research has benefited from Professor Linduff's work, will gather at the University of Pittsburgh on the 6th and 7th of May 2011, to present papers that range regionally from southern China to Mongolia and Japan, and chronologically from the Neolithic to recent times.