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CURRICULUMVITAE

XINYILIUAssistantProfessorTel:+1314-935-9472DepartmentofAnthropologyFax:+1314-935-8535WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louisliuxinyi@wustl.eduOneBrookingsDrive,Box1114St.Louis,MO63130,USAAPPOINTMENTS2014-present Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Washington

UniversityinSt.Louis2014-presentDirector,Laboratory for theAnalysisofEarlyFood-webs(LAEF),

WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis2010-2014 Postdoctoral Research Associate (European Research Council

Advanced Project), McDonald Institute for ArchaeologicalResearch,UniversityofCambridge

2009-2013ResearchFellow,DarwinCollege,UniversityofCambridgeEDUCATION2005-2009 PhD (Cantab), Department of Archaeology and Anthropology,

UniversityofCambridge2004-2005 Visiting Research Student (Mellon Foundation Research Fellow),

NeedhamResearchInstitute,Cambridge2002-2005 Postgraduate Study (Archaeological Sciences), Laboratory of

Archaeometry,UniversityofScienceandTechnologyofChina1997-2001BSc(EngineeringSciences),BeijingInstituteofLightIndustryPUBLICATIONS(PEER-REVIEWEDJOURNALARTICLESANDBOOKCHAPTERS)Summary:38peer-reviewedjournalarticlesorbookchapters.

10 other publications including book reviews, newspaper articles,interviewsandtranslatedworks.

2018ReidREB,LalkL,MarshallFandLiuXY,Carbonandnitrogenisotope

variability in the seeds of two African millet species: Pennisetumglaucum and Eleusine coracana. Rapid Communications in MassSpectrometry,publishedonline:doi.org/10.1002/rcm.8217

ListerDL, JonesH,OliveiraHR,PetrieCA,LiuXY,CockramJ,Kneale

CJ, Kovaleva ON and Jones MK, Barley heads east: genetic analysesreveal routes of spread through diverse Eurasian landscapes. PLOSONE,publishedonline:doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196652

Liu XY, Margaritis E, Jones MK, From the harvest to the meal in

prehistoric China and Greece: A comparative approach to the social

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contextoffood.inLloydGandZhaoJJ(eds.)AncientGreeceandChinaCompared.Cambridge,CambridgeUniversityPress,355-372.

2017TianD,MaJ,WangJ,PilgramT,ZhaoZ,LiuXY,Cultivationofnaked

barley by early Iron Age agro-pastoralists in Xinjiang, China.Environmental Archaeology, published online: DOI10.1080/14614103.2017.1415121.

Liu XY, Lister DL, Zhao Z, Petrie CA, Zeng X, Jones PJ, Staff RA,

PokhariaAK,BatesJ,SinghRN,WeberSA,MotuzaiteMatuzeciciuteG,DongG,LiH,LüH,JiangH,WangJ,MaJ,TianD,JinG,ZhouL,WuX,JonesMK, Journey to the East: divers routes and variable floweringtimes forwheatandbarleyenroute toprehistoricChina.PLOSONE,publishedonline:DOI10.1371/journal.pone.0187405.

DongG,Yang,Y.LiuXY,LiH,CuiY,WangH,ChenG,DodsonJ,ChenF,

Prehistoric trans-continental cultural exchange in the Hexi Corridor.TheHolocene,publishedonline:DOI10.1177/0959683617735585.

Liu,XY,ZhaoZandJonesMK,Frompeople’scommunetohouseholdresponsibility:EthnoarchaeologicalperspectivesofmilletproductioninprehistoricnortheastChina.ArchaeologicalResearchinAsia,11:51-57.

SongJ,LuH,ZhengZandLiuXY,Archaeobotanicalremainsfromthemid-first millennium AD site of Kaerdong in western Tibet.Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, published online, doi:10.1007/s12520-017-0521-6.

2016RenX,LemoineX,MoD*,KidderTR,GuoY,QinZandLiuXY*,Foothillsand intermountain basins: Does China’s Fertile Arc have a ‘HillyFlanks’?QuaternaryInternational,426:86-96.

Liu XY, Lister DL, Zhao Z, Staff RA, Jones P, Zhou L, Pokharia AK,Petrie CA, PathakA, LuH,MotuzaiteMatuzeviciuteG,Bates J, LuH,Pilgram TK and JonesMK The virtues of small grain size: potentialpathways to a distinguishing feature of Asian wheats. QuaternaryInternational,426:107-119.DongG,RenL,JiaX,LiuXY,DongS,LiH,WangZ,XiaoYandChenF,Chronology and subsistence strategy of Nuomuhong culture inTibetanPlateau.QuaternaryInternational,426:42-49.Liu XY, Reid RB, Lightfoot E,MotuzaiteMatuzeviciute G, JonesMK,Radicalchangeanddietaryconservatism:MixingmodelestimatesofhumandietsalongtheInnerAsiaandChina’smountaincorridors.TheHolocene,26:1556-1565.Liu XY Staple isotope analysis to human and animal remains from

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GangguyaandSabadongzi. InLiSC(ed.)GanguyainJiuquan.Beijing,CulturalRelicsPublishingHouse(inChinese).JonesM,HuntH,KnealeC,LightfootE,ListerD,LiuXYandMotuzaiteMatuzeviciute G, Food Globalization in Prehistory: The agrarianfoundations of an interconnected continent. Journal of the BritishAcademy,4:73-87.

2015DongGH*,ZhangDJ,LiuXY*,LiuFW,ChenFHandJonesMK,Response

tocommenton“AgriculturefacilitatedpermanenthumanoccupationoftheTibetanPlateauafter3600B.P.”Science,348(6237):872-c.

LiuXY,FullerDQandJonesMK,EarlyagricultureinChina.inBarkerG and Goucher C (eds.) Cambridge World History, A World WithAgriculture, 12,000 BCE - 500 CE. Cambridge, Cambridge UniversityPress,310-334.Liu XY, Zhao Z and LiuG,Xinglonggou. in BarkerG andGoucher C(eds.) CambridgeWorld History, Volume 2 AWorld with Agriculture,12,000 BCE - 500 CE. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 335-352.CuiY,DongG,LiH,AnT,LiuXY,WangJ,WangH,RenX,LiXandChenF,EarlyceramictradeinGansuandQinghairegions,northwestChina:A comparative elemental analysis on sherds of Majiayao culture,YangshaocultureandQijia culture. JournalofArchaeologicalScience:Reports,3:65-72.MotuzaiteMatuzeviciuteG,LightfootE,O’ConnellTC,VoyakinD,LiuXY, Svyatko S, UsmanovaE and JonesMK,The extent of agricultureamong pastoralist societies in Kazakhstan using stable isotopeanalysisofanimalbone.JournalofArchaeologicalScience,59:23-34.ZhangG,WangS,FergusonDK,YangY,LiuXY,JiangH,Ancientplantuse and palaeoenvironmental analysis at the Gumugou Cemetery,Xinjiang, China: implication from desiccated plant remains.ArchaeologicalandAnthropologicalSciences,9(2):145-152.ChenFH,DongGH,Zhang,DJ,Liu XY, JiaX,AnCB,MaMM,XieYW,BartonL,RenXY,ZhaoZJ,WuXHandJonesMK,Agriculturefacilitatedpermanent human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau after 3600BP.Science,347(6219):248-250.

2014LiuXY,LightfootE,O’ConnellTC,WangH,LiS,ZhouL,HuY,Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute G and Jones MK From necessity to choice: dietaryrevolutions in west China in the second millennium BC. WorldArchaeology,46(5):661-680.

Liu XYand JonesMKFoodglobalization inprehistory: topdownor

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bottomup?Antiquity,88:956-963.Liu XYand JonesMK,Underoneroof:people,cropsandanimals inNeolithicnorthChina,inBoyleK,RabettRandHuntC(eds.)Livinginthe Landscape: Essays in Honour of Graeme Barker (McDonaldInstitute Monographs). Cambridge, McDonald Institute forArchaeologicalResearch,227-234.LightfootE,Motuzaite-MatuzeviciuteG,O’Connell TC,Kukushkin IA,Loman V, Varfolomeev V, Liu XY and Jones MK, How ‘pastoral’ ispastoralism? Dietary diversity in Bronze Age communities in thecentralKazakhstansteppes.Archaeometry,57(S1):232-249.

2013MaM,DongG,LiuXY,LightfootE,ChenF,WangH,LiH.andJonesMK

StableisotopeanalysisofhumanandanimalremainsattheQijiapingsiteinmiddleGansu,China.InternationalJournalofOsteoarchaeology,25(6):923-934.

LightfootE,LiuXYandJonesMK,Whymovestarchycereals?AreviewoftheisotopicevidenceforprehistoricmilletconsumptionacrossEurasia.WorldArchaeology,45(4):574-623.MaM,DongG,LightfootE,WangH,LiuXY,JiaX,ZhangKRandChenFH,StableisotopeanalysisofhumanandfaunalremainsinthewesternLoessPlateau,approximately2000cal.BC.Archaeometry,56(S1):237-255.

2012MotuzaiteMatuzeviciuteG,StaffRA,HuntHV,LiuXY,andJonesMK,Theearlychronologyofbroomcornmillet(Panicummiliaceum)inEurope.Antiquity,87:1073-1085.

Liu XY, Jones MK, Zhao Z, Liu G and O’Connell TC, The earliestevidenceofmilletasastaplecrop:newlightonNeolithicfoodwaysinNorthChina.AmericanJournalofPhysicalAnthropology,149(2):283-290.

2011 Jones MK, Hunt H, Lightfoot E, Lister D, Liu XY and Motuzaite-MatuzeviciuteG,Foodglobalizationinprehistory.WorldArchaeology34(4):665-675.

2009 Jones MK and Liu XY Origins of agriculture in East Asia. Science

324(5928):730-731.

LiuXY,HuntHVandJonesMK,Rivervalleysandfoothills:changingarchaeological perceptionsofNorthChina’s earliest farms.Antiquity83:82-95.

2008HuntHV,LinderMV,LiuXY,MotuzaiteMatuzeiciuteG,ColledgeSandJones MK, Millets across Eurasia: chronology and context of early

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recordsof thegeneraPanicum andSetaria fromarchaeological sitesintheoldworld.VegetationHistoryandArchaeobotany,17(S1):5-18.

LiuXYandJonesMK,Whenarchaeologybegins:culturalandpoliticalcontext of Chinese archaeological thought. Bulletin of History ofArchaeology,18(1):25-28.

2007 LiuXY,ZhuJandYanY,StatisticalanalysisofdiachronicalchangeoftheLipottypologyduringtheShang.SouthernCulturalRelics,63:66–71(inChinese).

LiuY,Song JandLiuXY,Analysesofbronzecastingmaterials fromZhouyuan. Journal of Archaeology and Cultural Relics 4: 94-100 (inChinese).

2006 Hu Y, HeD,Liu XY, Dong Y,Wang C, GaoM and Lan Y, Elementalanalysis of human bones from Xigongqiao, Tengzhou, Shandong.ChemicalResearchinChineseUniversities27:1075-1079(inChinese).

OTHERPUBLICATIONS(BOOKREVIEWS,NEWSPAPERARTICLESANDTRANSLATEDWORKS)2017LiuXY,HowwheatandbarleywereintroducedtoChina?Intellectuals,15Nov(inChinese).LiuXY,Cuisine,seasonandclass:howEurasiabecameconnected?EasternHistoricalReview,26June(inChinese).

LiuXY,‘China’sarc’betweentheWestandEast.People’sDaily,13June(inChinese).

2015LiuXY,ColinRenfrewinterview.SouthernCulturalRelics,86:44-49

(inChinese).

LiuXY,GraemeBarkerinterview.SouthernCulturalRelics,84:62-66(inChinese).

2014LiuXY,Bookreview:AncientCentralChina-CentresandperipheriesalongtheYangziRiver.LandscapeArchaeology:JournalofSocietyforLandscapeStudies,35(1):83.

StargardtJ,translatedbyLiuXYandZhuangY,Demand,distanceandprofit:AnIndianOceanworldintheninthandtenthcentury.NationalMaritimeResearch,8:87-112(inChinese).

2012LiuXY,MartinJonesinterview.SouthernCulturalRelics,81:20-24(inChinese).

2005WangCandLiuXY,OnearlyceramicsinChina.NewspaperofCultural

RelicsofChina,Nov11(inChinese).

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Cullen C, translated by Liu XY, The Needham Research Institute inCambridgeandChineseScienceandCivilization.ChineseJournalfortheHistoryofScienceandTechnology,25:1–10.(inChinese).Liu XY, Book review: The Molecular Hunt - A brief history ofarchaeological science.Chinese Journal for theHistoryofScienceandTechnology,26:180–184(inChinese).

TEACHINGWashingtonUniversity2016-2017 Full course, Pathways to Domestication (fall semester, 400 level,

graduatesandundergraduates).2015-2016 Fullcourse,Bio-molecularArchaeology–Areyouwhatyoueat?(fall

semester,400level,graduatesandundergraduates).2014-2016 Fullcourse,EnvironmentalArchaeology(springsemester,400 level,

graduatesandundergraduates).2014-2018 Full course, Archaeology of China – Food and People. (spring

semester,300level,undergraduates).Cambridge2012-2014 Lecturer,PrehistoryofChina, in coremodule:ChineseHistory (Part

Ia).DepartmentofEastAsianStudies.2012-2014 Lecturer,PhysicalEnvironmentandHumanImpact, incoremodule:

ArchaeologyinAction(PartIIb).DivisionofArchaeology.2010-2013 Lecturer, Culture and Nature, in core module: Archaeological

Thought(PartIIa).DivisionofArchaeology.2006-2013 Supervisor/instructor, Introduction to Scientific Approach in

Archaeology(PartIIa,IIbandM.Phil).DivisionofArchaeology.2006-2007Supervisor,TheHistoryandScopeofArchaeology-theoryandpractice

(PartIIaandPartIIb).DivisionofArchaeology.GRANTSANDRESEARCHDEVELOPMENT2018-2021PI,NSF(NationalScienceFoundation–ArchaeologySeniorProject).

Theoriginandspreadofbroomcornandfoxtailmillet($312,500).2018-2019PI,LEC(LivingEarthCollaborative),Integratingstableisotopesand

DNA metabarcoding of cave guano to develop a uniquepaleoenvironmentalarchiveforthehumidtropics($29,100).

2018-2019 PI, InCEES (International Center for Advanced Renewable Energyand Sustainability), Stable isotope composition of cave guano: Auniquepaleoenvironmentalarchiveforthehumidtropics($40,000).

2018-2019 (in review) Supervisor (with Mana Hayashi Tang), Wenner-GrenDissertationFieldworkGrant.LatePleistocenestarchyplantusesinnorthernChina:ANihewancasestudy($19,813).

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2017-2021 Co-Investigator (with Fahu Chen and Guanghui Dong, LanzhouUniversity), NSFC (National Science Foundation of China –International Collaborative Project). Study on Prehistoric HumanAdaptation to High-elevation and Low Oxygen Environment inNorthernTibetanPlateau(RMB3,200,000).

2017-2022 Co-Investigator (with Dawei Cai), Jilin University Grant forFundamental Research. Archaeogenetics investigation on animaldomesticationinChina(RMB500,000).

2017-2018 Supervisor (with Ximena Leomoine), Wenner-Gren DissertationFieldworkGrant. PigsinNeolithicnorthChina:Domesticationinthecontextofdiversityandregionalexpression($19,660).

2016-2017 PI, InCEES (International Center for Advanced Renewable Energyand Sustainability). Compound specific isotope analysis onarchaeological human and animal remains from north China.($40,000).

2015-2016 PI, I-CARES (International Center for Advanced Renewable Energyand Sustainability). Lost Crops of Africa: Quantifying the naturalvariabilityinmilletcarbonisotopevalues($35,000).

2010-2015 Key researcher (PI, Martin Jones), European Research CouncilAdvancedProject.FoodGlobalisationinPrehistory(€2,000,000).

2011-2013 PI, Northwest University (Xi’an) Special Grant. Dietary change inprehistoricalnorthwestChina(RMB30,000).

2011-2013 PI, DM McDonald Grants and Award Funds. Isotopic analysis ofindividual amino acids of bone collagen from Xinglonggou, China(£5,000).

2009-2013DarwinCollegeResearchGrant(£1,500).2008-2009Organizer(coordinatingwithProfessorsMartinJones,Graeme

Barker,ShuichengLiandZhijunZhao),ResearchCouncilUKSummerSchool.RethinkingagriculturaloriginsinnorthwestChina(£3,000).

2007-2008Wenner-GrenFoundationDissertationFieldworkGrant($10,000).2006-2007 NERC (UK Natural Environmental Research Council) Graduate

StudentFieldworkGrant(£1,500).SCHOLARSHIPSANDAWARDS2016‘Outstandingindividualwhoseresearchpromotestheeconomicwell

beingoffarmersinAohan’,anawardgrantedbytheGovernmentofAohan,Chifeng,InnerMongolia,China.

2015ResearchAward-‘OutstandingContributionstotheAdvancementofKnowledge of the Human Past’ - Shanghai Archaeology Forum, 14Dec 2015, Shanghai. (Awarded for the research on ‘Theoriginandspreadofbroomcornandfoxtailmillet’).

2009-2010 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad(ChineseScholarshipCouncil).

2005-2009DorothyHodgkinPostgraduateAward(DHPA,feesandstipends).2005-2008 Special Cambridge Overseas Trust Scholarship (Kwok Foundation,

honorarium-havingwonDHPA).2004-2005AndrewMellonFoundationFellowship,NeedhamResearchInstitute,

Cambridge.

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UNIVERSITYSERVICES2017MemberofEarthandPlanetarySciencesFacultySearchCommittee.2016MemberofArchaeologyFacultySearchCommittee.2016-present Faculty advisor of Simple Syrup, a student run food and culture

magazine.2016-presnt Member of Committee for the Interdisciplinary Program in

Archaeology,DepartmentofAnthropology.2015-2016 Member of Curriculum Review Committee, Department of

Anthropology.2015MemberofPhysicalAnthropologyFacultySearchCommittee.PROFESSIONALSERVICESReviewer for Antiquity, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Quaternary

International,QuaternaryResearch, JournalofArchaeologicalScience,Archaeological and Anthropological Science, Archaeological ResearchinAsia,Archaeometry,PLOSONE,PNAS,ScientificReport.

2015-present Academic advisor, Advanced Research Center in Aohan, Chifeng,China.

2018 Organizer, Hills, Valleys and Plateaus: Exploring human landscape of themountainous regions in East and Central Asia, SAA symposium,WashingtonDC.

2015Organizer,TibetanPlateauandtheBronzeAgeGlobalisation,asymposiumbeingheldatWashingtonUniversity.

2015Organizer,FoodGlobalisationinPrehistory,asymposiumbeingheldatSAAannualconference,SanFrancisco.

2014 Co-organizer (with Zhijun Zhao), Millets as Crops: Past and Future, aninternationalsymposiumheldinAohan,InnerMongolia.

2013 Co-organizer (with Christine Hastorf), PlantDomestication -Morphology,Genetics and Social Context, a forum being held at the SAA annualconference,Austin.

2011-2013 Principal convener, Darwin College Humanities and Social SciencesSeminar, one of the two college lunch time series, CambridgeUniversity.

2010 Co-organizer (withMartin JonesandZhijunZhao),OrdosBronzeand theEarly East-West Cultural Exchanges through the Eurasian Steppe, aninternationalsymposiumbeingheldinOrdos,China.

2008 Co-organizer (with Martin Jones and Graeme Barker), RethinkingAgricultural Origins in Western China, an international symposiumbeingheldinJiuquan,China.

2005-2007 (and 2009-10) Principal convenor, George Pitt-River Seminar forArchaeologicalScience,DivisionofArchaeology,CambridgeUniversity.

2005-2006 Co-ordinator, Asian Archaeology Group, Division of Archaeology,CambridgeUniversity.

ARCHAEOLOGICALANDAPPLIEDFIELDWORK

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2018Fieldtripandethno-archaeologicalinvestigationatShannan,Tibet.2017 Field trip and sampling at Zhaoguodong in Guizhou,Haimenkou in Yunan

andNihewaninHebei.2016FieldvisitandsamplingatZhaoguodonginGuizhou,YahuaidonginGuangxi,

XinglonggouinInnerMongolia,incollaborationwithXimenaLemoineandManaHayashiTang.

2015SurveyingcavesitesinSouthwestandSoutheastChina-PI,incollaborationwith Professors Jimmy Zhao and Xianguo Fu, Chinese Academy of SocialSciences.

2015ExcavationatBangga,Tibet-Co-I,incollaborationwithProf.HongliangLu,SichuanUniversity.

2014 Field visit to Xinglonggou, Xinglongwa and Zhaobaogou in Chifeng, InnerMonglia.

2013 Excavation and flotation at Baia, Romania - PI, in collaboration with DrMadalin-CornelValeanu,MoldovaNationalMuseum,Iasi.

2012 Excavation and flotation at Karuo, Tibet - Co-I, in collaboration withProfessorsLuHongliangandLiYongxian,SichuanUniversity.

2011 Excavation and flotation at Botai, Kazakhstan - excavator andarchaeobotanical specialist, in collaboration with Professors A. OutramfromUKandV.ZaibertfromKazakhstan.

2011ExcavationandflotationatSidaogou,Xinjiang-fielddirector,incollaborationwithProfessorWangJianxin,theNorthwestUniversity,Xi’an.

2009-11 Sampling skeletal specimens for isotopic analysis at Gansu Institute ofArchaeology, in collaboration with Mr. Wang Hui, the director of theinstitute.

2010 Field survey for the Food Globalization in Prehistory Project in InnerMongolia,GansuandQinghai-Fielddirector,incollaborationwithChineseAcademyofSocialSciences,InstitutesofArchaeologyandCulturalRelicsinInnerMongolia,GansuandQinghai.

2009SurveyforNorthernSteppe, inInnerMongolia,NingxiaandGansu(jointlyorganizedbyCASS,PekingUniversityandNationalHistoryMuseum)-teammember.

2007 Sampling skeletal specimens for isotopic analysis in Chifeng - PhDdissertation research, in collaboration with Chinese Academy of SocialSciences.

2006 Excavation and flotation at Sagan-Zaba, Baikal, Russia - archaeobotanicalspecialist, in collaboration with Albert University, Canada and RussianAcademyofScience,IrkutskBranch.

2005-08 Excavation, flotation and survey in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia - PhDdissertation research in collaboration with Institute of Archaeology,ChineseAcademyofSocialSciences.

2004ArchaeologicalsurveyonIslandofKosrea,Micronesia-teammember2003 Zooarchaeological research at Jiaochangpu, Shandong Province, China -

research assistant, in collaborationwith InstituteofArchaeology, ChineseAcademyofSocialSciences.

SELECTEDINVITEDLECTURES2018TwoFertileCrescents.ChineseAcademyofAgriculturalSciences,Beijing.

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2018Runawayworld:theagrarianfoundationoftheOldWorldprehistory.FengJihanLectureSeries,SichuanUniversity,Chengdu.

2018Grain,cuisineandclass:CulinarychoicesoftheBronzeAgeChina.Paperpresented at the Afro-Eurasian Archaeobotany: New perspectives, newapproaches,aninternationalworkshopholdatNara.

2017‘Ataleoftwocities’:frompeople’scommunetohouseholdresponsibilityinprehistoricnorthChina.SunYat-SenUniversity,Guangzhou.

2017 1492 BC: mapping the food globalization in prehistory. NorthwestUniversity,Xi’an.

2017 Cuisine, season and class: How Eurasia became connected? GuizhouMuseum.

2017Foodglobalizationinprehistory.NevadaUniversityinLasVegas.2017Betweenfertilecrescents:Trans-Eurasianexchangeofcerealcrops.Bryant

University.2016Thehistoricalconsequencesofthefoodglobalizationinprehistory,paper

presented at the International Symposium on Prehistoric InteractionbetweenEastandWest,PekingUniversity.

2016Mobilecropsandconservativecuisines.StanfordUniversity.2015Moving up: ecological intelligence of the earliest settlers on the Tibetan

Plateau, paper presented at GHAGS 11 (the Eleventh Conference onHuntingandGatheringSocieties),Vienna.

20151984BC:WasthereaBronzeAgeworldsystem?HarvardUniversity.2015Chinese foodand theBronzeAgeworld systems,paperpresentedatThe

IntroductionandIntensificationofAgricultureinCentralEurasia,GermanArchaeologicalInstitute,Berlin.

2014 Chinese food and the world system in prehistory, lecture given at theseries: New Worlds of Science: The Heritage of East Asia, Seattle ArtMuseum,Seattle.

2014Whywehaveadinner likethat?paperpresentedat theSEAA(SocietyofEastAsianArchaeology)conference,Ulaanbaatar.

2014Plantdomestication-morphology,geneticsandsocialcontext,introductiontothe‘domestication’forumattheSAAannualconference,Austin.

2013What Ihaveeaten this summer: StoneAge foodnetworks,public lecturegivenatthe'OneWayStreet'bookshop,Beijing.

2013 Loss of seed dispersal: Has broomcornmillet been domesticated? paperpresentedat the InternationalMilletWorkshop,Unilever (Colworth) andNIABInnovationFarm(Cambridge).

2013Foodnetworksinprehistory:Topdownorbottomup?paperpresentedatthe82ndAnglo-AmericanConferenceofHistorians, Institute of HistoricalResearch,London.

2012 Food web, production and consumption, paper presented at the Eco-Submit,Ohio.

2012Foodglobalization inprehistory: isotopesandarchaeobotanicalevidence.BritishMuseum,London.

POSTDOCTORALRESEARCHERMENTORED2015-presentRachelB.Reid,WashingtonUniversity

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PHDSTUDENTSSUPERVISED2017-presentYufengSun2017–presentXinzhouChen2016-presentZhengweiZhang2015-presentManaHayashiTang2014-presentXimenaLemoine2014-presentYi-LingLinDISSERTATIONEXAMINER/COMMITTEEMEMBER2018 Ting An (PhD, University of Cambridge), Re-visiting the Correlation

betweenMovement of ChineseMillet andPaintedPottery before the 2ndMillenniumBC.

2018YuqiLi,WaterManagementinAgro-pastoralistSocieties:AcasestudyatthesiteofMohuchahangoukou(MGK)inXinjiang,China.

2017 Zhen Qin, Agricultural Intensification and Environmental Changes in theCentralPlainofChina(5500–2000BP):AcasestudyatSanyangzhuangandAnshan,HenanProvince.

2017Michael Storozum,Towards aHumanEcology of theNorthChinaPlains:GeoarchaeologicalperspectivesonHolocenelandscapeevolution.

2016NatalieMueller,ACaseStudy inAgriculturalPracticeandDomestication:ErectknotweeddomesticationinEasternNorthAmerica.

2015AbigailStone,UrbanHerders:Anarchaeologicalandisotopicinvestigationinto the role of mobility and subsistence specialization in an Iron AgeurbancenterinMali.

RESEARCHVISITORS(EXTERNALLYFUNDED)RuiLiu(2017-2018)PekingUniversity,BeijingHaimingLi(2017-2018)LanzhouUniversity,LanzhouProf.ZhijunZhao(April-May2017)InstituteofArchaeology,CASS,BeijingProf.LanLi(2016-2017)SichuanUniversity,ChengduDuoTian(2015-2016)NorthwestUniversity,Xi’anYuanyuanGao(2015-2016)SichuanUniversity,ChengduGRADUATEADVISORSMartinJones,DivisionofArchaeology,UniversityofCambridgeTamsinO’Connell,DivisionofArchaeology,UniversityofCambridgeChangsui Wang, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology,ChineseAcademyofSciencesJingYuan,InstituteofArchaeology,ChineseAcademyofSocialSciences

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