Past

I am interested in the spatial landscape organization of prehistoric Tibetan pastoralists, focusing on the ecological and political logic of pastoral strategies through time. I currently work on a survey project, including topics of: 1) ethnographic survey and predictive modeling of pastoralists central southern Tibet (Shannan); 2) archaeological survey of highland pastoralists in Shannan and Western Tibet.

My research spans deep geological, prehistoric, recent historical, and modern times, focusing on the behavior, evolution and geochemistry of vertebrate and invertebrate organisms. The unifying tool in my research is stable isotope biogeochemistry, which I use to address questions about past climate, environment, and ecology.

I am a second year PhD candidate, originally from Sichuan University, China. My research interests mainly focus on archaeobotany and geoarchaeology in southwest China during the Neolithic Age. I would like to use multiple methods to investigate the evolution of the environment over that time period, human response to environmental change, and the human-land relationship.

I am a zooarchaeologist interested in the origins and effects of agriculture and domestication and am especially interested in the evolutionary and social processes influencing and enabling their development. I use faunal demographic reconstruction, stable isotopic analyses, and ethnoarchaeology to better understand the many contexts out of which domestication arose, as well as the diversity of regional agricultural practices that resulted.

I am interested in the environmental consequences of bronze production during the Shang periods in Anyang, Henan province, China. My dissertation focuses on the environmental conditions of the middle and late Shang bronze workshops and surrounded archaeological contexts. Our preliminary result show elevated heavy metal concentrations among bronze workshop area.

My research focuses on the subsistence strategies on the Loess Plateau of China during the Neolithic-Bronze Age, focus on charred plant remains. My current research focuses on the agricultural development of the eastern Loess Plateau during the Neolithic Period.

I am interested in early agriculture and the different contemporary agricultural approaches practiced in different landscapes of China and neighboring regions. Through the application of plant stable isotopic analysis, my current research primarily focuses on 1) understanding the water management strategies of the earliest Southwest Asian crops to arrive in China; and 2) the translocation of Chinese domesticated millets into the Eurasian continent.

I am an East Asian archaeologist, specializing in paleoethnobotany. My Ph.D. dissertation is a diachronic study of starchy plant foods in Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene China, with a focus on the macrobotanical remains of less studied plant groups, such as roots and tubers, also known as vegetative storage organs (VSOs). Additionally, I am participating in long term research projects on the symbolic use of green jades in Northeast Asia, and the ethnoarchaeology of bark cloth in South China and Southeast Asia.

I’m an archaeobotanist from Northwest University, Xi’an, China. My research is generally focused on plant remains unearthed in Northwest China and prehistoric cultural exchanges between East and West. Specifically, collaborating with members of LAEF, I will compare remains from Bronze Age to Early Iron Age unearthed from Eurasian Steppe, where the communication mainly occurred, including Northwest China, Central Asia and West Asia, then to study their status

I am interested in studying the interactions of humans, plants and animals in past societies. I apply multi-isotopic techniques for reconstructing ancient food production and consumption practices across a range of environments and time-periods. I have worked on sites from Neolithic Greece and Turkey, Byzantine Levant, and am excited to join this laboratory to work on movement of crops across Eurasia in prehistory.

I am a visiting graduate student on exchange from the Lanzhou University of China. Using stable isotopic analysis, my research mainly focuses on the dietary components of humans and animals spanning from the Late Bronze Age into historic periods in the Xinjiang Tianshan Mountain region of NW China. I am also very interested in studying the relationship between human dietary choices and their environments, as well as exploring potential influences of prehistoric social complexity on the dietary composition of the Xinjiang population.

 

I am interested in the subsistence strategies of prehistoric societies, with a primary focus on human-environment interactions and early agriculture. I currently work on the utilization of plant resources and the spread of rice farming in Neolithic Southeastern China

I am a zooarchaeologist working on the Tibetan Plateau (main areas include Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai Province, western Sichuan Province, and northwestern Yunnan Province in China). My research interests involve: addressing how different groups of people use animal resources in the Holocene Tibetan Plateau; high-altitude adaptation of domesticated animals; and comparative osteology of wild Tibetan bovids.