PhD Student

 

My doctoral research focuses on the human biological response during the transition from hunting-gathering to agriculture. We have acknowledged that populations in various regions experienced their unique trajectories of becoming farmers. In my study, I hope to explore how fishing-hunting-gathering populations living in southern subtropical China gradually accepted and adapted to rice agriculture, and in turn, how the new subsistence not only reconstructed their life culturally but also their bodies biologically (e.g. behavioral patterns, diet and health).
Recently, I participated in the excavation and bioarchaeological examination in Jinlansi, Guangzhou, China, which can be the key settlement for studying the cultural integration of populations and foraging communities. I also published two bioarchaeological papers for the other two Neolithic populations, including the mortuary practices reconstruction for the Dingsishan population (Guangxi, China), and the three-dimensional geometrics morphometrics analysis of patellae for the Huiyaotian population (Guangxi, China).

Keywords: Neolithic, hunter-gatherers, Chinese archaeology, bioarchaeology, functional adaptation, biomechanics, geometric morphometrics

Publications:
Ye, Z., He, A., Liang, Y., & Li, F. (2024). Three-dimensional geometric morphometric analysis of patella morphology of the Neolithic people from Huiyaotian site in South China. Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 43(2), 259–272.
Ye, Z., Wang, M., Stock, J. T., & Li, F. (2024). Disarticulation, evisceration and excarnation: Neolithic mortuary practices at Dingsishan, southern China. Antiquity, 1–20.