EDUCATION

He graduated from the Department of Anthropology at Sun Yat-sen University in 1985, where he majored in Archeology. After graduating from the Institute of Archeology at CASS in 1991 he received his PhD degree.

POSITION

He worked in the Institute of Archeology at CASS in the same year, and successively served as a research assistant, associate research fellow, and research fellow at CASS. He is now a deputy director and research fellow at CASS, and a full-time professor at the Research Center of Oriental Archaeology at Shandong University.　　

AREA OF EXPERTISE

His main research fields include Neolithic archaeology of China, the history of prehistoric archaeology in China and the history of prehistoric social life in China.

WORK EXPERIENCE

He has been working in the Institute of Archeology at CASS and has taken part in the archaeological excavations at such sites as Wufeng Mountain in Wu County, Jiangsu Province, Xiantouling, Shenzhen, Lilou Site in Ruzhou City, Henan Province, and Beiyangping in Lingbao City, Henan Province. Currently, he presides or co-presides over two academic programs on archeological studies at China-Australia Yiluo River downstream area and Zhudingyuan Settlement in Lingbao City of Henan Province. He has also written nearly one hundred reports, papers, translations and monographs on the excavation.

He went to Canada’s Simon Fraser University to perform a buffalo DNA extraction experiment during February-March of 2007; undertook the organization and implementation work of social and cultural subjects of the program titled “In Search of the origin of Chinese Civilization”.