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 […]
Category: 2021
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 […]