Email Address: chunxuewang@163.com
Brief Introduction: Prof. Wang has joined the faculty since he graduated from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010, achieving a degree of Doctor of Science. He mainly studies and teaches Paleolithic Archaeology, focusing on North China, Northeast China and the Bohai Rim, including Xinjiang, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, eastern Jilin and Tianjin.
His research emphasizes how ancient humans, after the Late Pleistocene, changed their migration, expansion, and ways of adaptive survival, and elaborates the agents which drove these changes. His research interests also include simulation experiments and functional studies of artificial products such as horns and ostrich egg skin beads, and exploration on the development and utilization of animal resources by ancient humans according to animal remains unearthed at different periods of time. He has presided over more than 10 scientific research projects such as the National Social Science Foundation Youth Project, sub-projects of the major project of the Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation.
Prof. Wang has published more than 40 academic papers in famous domestic and foreign journals such as “Chinese Science Bulletin, “Science China: Earth Sciences”, “Archaeology”, “Journal of Anthropology”, and undertaken more than ten scientific research projects.