Unlocking

THE ANCIENT RECIPES

NEWS

Dr. Feng Qu: Construction of the Shamanic Landscape among the Daur in North China.

Guest Lecture

MAY
2022

New Perspectives on Human-Environment Interactions in Ancient China

SAA Panel

APR
2022

Professor Li Liu gives interview on Podcast Tides of History: Li Liu on the Rise of States in China

Podcast

DEC
2021

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Dr. Jiajing Wang Accepting Assistant Professorship of Anthropology at Dartmouth College

News

AUG
2021

Landscape in the vicinity of the Simagou site (ca. 8000BP) in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Re

Our
Mission

We are not only what we eat, but also where, when, how, and with whom we eat.

Discovering Ancient Food
at Stanford University...

Our
Themes

Our lab explores many aspects of foodways in ancient societies worldwide, with a focus on China.

Transitioning from foraging to agriculture under microscopes

China is one of the few centers in the world where plant domestication evolved independently, but its developmental trajectory is not sufficiently understood.

The Quest for Alcohol
in Ancient World

Fermented and alcoholic beverages played a pivotal role in feastings and social events in past agricultural and urban societies across the globe, but the origins of the sophisticated relevant technologies remain elusive.

Subsistence strategies and development of social complexity

Subsistence strategies are the essence of a political-economic system, and may predict other forms of behavior, such as population size, division of labor, and social structure.