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.
Publication
Wang W, Wang YQ, An CB, Ruan QR, Duan FT, Li WY, Dong WM. (2018) Human diet and subsistence strategies from the Late Bronze Age to historic times at Goukou, Xinjiang, NW China. The Holocene 28(4): 640-650.
An CB, Wang W, Duan FT, Huang W, Chen FH. (2017) Environmental changes and cultural exchange between East and West along the Silk Road in arid Central Asia. Acta Geographica Sinica 72(5): 875-891.
Li H, An CB An, Dong WM, Wang W, Hu ZY, Wang SZ, Zhao XY, Yang YS. (2017) Woodland vegetation composition and prehistoric human fuel collection strategy at the Shannashuzha site, Gansu Province, northwest China, during the middle Holocene. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 26(2): 213-221.
Duan FT, An CB, Zhao YT, Wang W, Cao ZH, Zhou AF. (2018) Vegetation and climate history of Anggertu Lake in the Tengger Desert over the last millennium. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology 36(6): 2166-2180.
An C B, Dong WM, Chen YF, Li H, Shi C, Wang W, Zhang PY, Zhao XY. (2015) Stable isotopic investigations of modern and charred foxtail millet and the implications for environmental archaeological reconstruction in the western Chinese Loess Plateau. Quaternary Research 84(1): 144-149.