Several members of the LAEF (Zhengwei Zhang, Ximena Lemoine, and Xinyi Liu) and our colleagues in China and US have recently published a research paper together in Quaternary International(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040618219307554): The importance of localized hunting of diverse animals to early inhabitants of the Eastern Tibetan Plateau at the Neolithic site of Xiaoenda. Our paper presents the first detailed […]
Category: 2020
“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 […]
Climate change in the Byzantine Negev Desert
In my new paper published in Nature: Scientific Reports, I collaborated with archaeologists and scientists from the University of Haifa, the Geological Survey of Israel, the Israeli Antiquities Authority and the University of Connecticut. We analyzed faunal material from three archaeological sites in the Negev Desert, which were recently excavated by Guy Bar-Oz and his team […]