An article published on Archaeology (a publication of the Archaeological Institute of America) featuring our research by emphasising the social dimensions of the global foodways. “When grains like wheat and barley, which are rooted in the grinding and baking tradition, enter a cuisine that favours boiling and steaming and eating whole grains, what’s going to […]
Author: Xinyi Liu
‘Til the cows come home
New research led by Petra and Xinyi shows that meat and dairy played a more significant role in human diets in Bronze Age China than previously thought. The analysis also suggests that farmers and herders tended to sheep and goats differently than they did their cows in the eastern Hexi Corridor — keeping cows closer […]
Congratulations, Zhengwei, winner of the Robert W. Sussman Graduate Student Research Award
Before the summer, anthropology department announced the recipients of the Robert W. Susan Graduate Student Research Award. Zhengwei (and Brad Jones) are the winners of the prize for 2019-2020. Congratulations Zhengwei and Brad! The nomination letter reads: “Zhengwei Zhang is a doctoral candidate in the fifth year of the graduate program in Anthropology. works on issues concerning human […]
“Fantastic Beasts”: The publication of Far from the Hearth – Essays in Honour of Martin K. Jones
This is Xinyi here again, and it is also a long due blog… A (relatively) new edited volume entitled: Far from the Hearth – Essays in Honour of Martin K. Jones was published at the end of 2018 by McDonald Institute Conversations, Cambridge. I am an editor of the volume, together with Emma Lightfoot and Dorian Fuller. […]
Congratulations! Mana received H. Kathleen Cook Graduate Student Prize
Many congratulations!!! Mana Hayashi Tang has been named the 2019-2020 recipient of the H. Kathleen Cook award. This award is based on nominations from fellow grad students, and recognizes “excellence in scholarship, dedication to teaching, and commitment to building and sustaining the graduate student community in the Department of Anthropology and at Washington University in St. Louis.” Video […]
Recent archaeobotanical investigations on the Tibetan Plateau
This is a long due blog. December last year, several researchers from the LAEF lab group, Petra Vaiglova, Melissa Ritchey, and Xinyi Liu, traveled to China to attend a symposium held at Xi’an city. This was before the pandemic outbreak, and the world was in a very different (brighter) place, as international travel for research was […]
Congratulations on Ximena receiving Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence
Please join me in congratulating Ximena Lemoine for being selected to receive the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence. An award ceremony and reception was held in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge yesterday (April 25). Ximena did an excellent job in teaching “Introduction to Archaeology” (U69 Anthro 190) and serving as Assistant in Instruction in a […]
Mapping food globalisation in prehistory
A new paper has recently been published in Quaternary Science Reviews on Feb 15 : From ecological opportunism to multi-cropping: Mapping food globalisation in prehistory. The article highlights the fact that many of today’s principal food crops are distributed worldwide, and while much of this “food globalisation” has resulted from modern trade networks, it has its roots in […]
Introduction to the Chinese Millet Project
In July 2018, the Chinese Millet project was funded by the NSF-BCS program. This project is already started at Washington University and we will be conducting field work in China in 2019 to investigate the origins and spread of millet cultivation. In this project, we consider two of the ecologically hardiest of cereal crops: broomcorn […]