Feng Li

Birthday & Place

1984, Shandong, PR CHINA

Citizenship

The People’s Republic of China

E-mail address: lifengspam prevention@ivpp.ac.cn

Education

2010.9-2012.11, Ph.D., Paleolithic Archeology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China
2011.8-2012.8, Joint doctoral training program, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
2007.9-2010.6, M.A., Paleolithic Archeology, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China
2003.9-2007.6, B.A., Archeology and Museology, Department of Archeology, Jilin University, Changchun, P.R. China

Academic employment history

2016.3-present: Humboldt Research Fellow, Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Universität Tübingen, Germany
2016.1-present: Associate Professor, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China
2013.6-2015.12: Assistant Professor, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China
2012.12-2013.5: Research assistant, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China

Interests of concentration

Technological evolution in prehistory
Experimental Archaeology
Behavioral adaptation and social interaction in Late Pleistocene in Asia

Awards and Honors

2015, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for postdoctoral research
2013, Excellent graduate, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Municipal Commission of Education
2012, Di Ao Scholarship
2011-2012, Educational Found from the China Scholarship Council
2010-2011, Excellent Students, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2009-2010, Excellent Students, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2008-2009, Excellent Students & Excellent Student Union Leader, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Papers and articles

Sole or principal author

Feng Li, Steven L. Kuhn, Fu-you Chen, Xing Gao.

n.d. Raw material economies and mobility patterns in the Late Paleolithic at Shuidonggou locality 2, North China. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, revised manuscript.

Feng Li, Fu-you Chen, Ying-hua Wang, Xing Gao.

n.d. Technology Diffusion and Population Migration Reflected in Blade Techniques in Northern China in the Late Pleistocene. Science China: Earth Science, in press. (In English and in Chinese)

Feng Li.

2015 An Experimental study of bipolar reduction at Zhoukoudian locality 1, north China. Quaternary International, Online (doi: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.08.064)

Feng Li, Steven L. Kuhn, Xing Gao.

2015 A response to Keates and Kuzimin. Antiquity, 89 (345): 721-723.

Feng Li, Fu-you Chen, Xing Gao.

2014 “Modern behaviors” of ancient populations at Shuidonggou Locality 2 and their implications. Quaternary International, 347: 66-73

Feng Li.

2014 Fact or Fiction: the Middle Palaeolithic in China. Antiquity, 88, 342:1303-1309.

Feng Li, Steven L. Kuhn, John W. Olsen, Fu-you Chen, Xing Gao

2014 Disparate stone age technologies evolution in North China: lithic technological variability and relations between populations during MIS 3. Journal of Anthropological Research, 70: 35-67.

Feng Li, Steven L. Kuhn, Xing Gao, Fu-you Chen.

2013 Re-examination of the date of blade technology in China: a comparison of Shuidonggou Locality 1 and 2. Journal of Human Evolution, 64: 161-168.

Feng Li, Xing Gao, Fuyou Chen, Shuwen Pei, Yue Zhang, Xiaoling Zhang, Decheng Liu, Shuangquan Zhang, Ying Guan, Huimin Wang, Steven L. Kuhn.

2013 The development of Upper Paleolithic China: new results from the Shuidonggou Site. Antiquity, 87: 368-383.

Li Feng, Chen Fu-you, Li Gang, Wang Shan, Gao Xing.

2015 Refitting Analysis of Stone Artifacts from the Xujiacheng Site, Gansu Province, North China. Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 34(2): 180-191. (In Chinese with English abstract)

Li Feng, Chen Fu-you, Gao Xing, Liu De-cheng, Wang Hui, Zhang Dong-ju

2013 A report on dating of the Xujiacheng Paleolithic Site in Gansu Province, North China. Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 32 (4): 432-440. (In Chinese with English abstract)

Li Feng, Chen Fu-you, Wang Hui, Liu De-cheng, Wang Shan, Zhang Dong-ju, Li Gang, Zhang Xiao-ling, Gao Xing

2012 A preliminary research on 2009 excavation of the Xujiacheng Paleolithic Site in Gansu Province, North China. Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 31 (3): 209-227. (In Chinese with English abstract)

Li Feng

2012 Discussion about definitions on Blades. Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 31(1): 41-50. (In Chinese with English abstract)

2012 Discussion about definitions on Blades. , 31(1): 41-50. (In Chinese with English abstract)

Li Feng, Wang Chun-xue, Liu De-cheng, Zhang Xiao-ling, Zhang Shuang-quan, Gao Xing

2011 Vein quartz procurement at Layer 4-5 of the Zhoukoudian Locality 1. Quaternary Sciences, 31 (5): 900-908. (In Chinese with English abstract)

Li Feng, Chen Fu-you, Gao Xing, Liu De-cheng, Zhang Dong-ju, Wang Shan

2011 A report on the 2009 reconnaissance of Paleolithic remains in the Shuiluo and Qingshui River valley, Gansu Province. Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 30 (2):137-148. (In Chinese with English abstract)

Li Feng, Wang Chun-xue

2009 A book review of “Flintknapping- making and understanding stone tools”. Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 28 (3):327-328. (In Chinese)

Li Feng

2008 An analysis on position of lithic retouch. In Essays in Honor of Prof. Jia Lanpo on the Hundredth Anniversary of His Birth, edited by Gao X., Shi J M. and Feng X W., Science Press, Beijing, pp. 304-313. (In Chinese)

Co-authored publications

Mingjie Yi, Xing Gao, Feng Li, Fuyou Chen.

2015 Rethinking the origin of microblade technology: A chronological and ecological perspective. Quaternary International, Online (doi: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.07.009)

Xiaomei Nian, Fuyou Chen, Feng Li, Xing Gao.

2015 Optical dating of a Paleolithic site near the eastern coastal region of Shandong, northern China. Quaternary Geochronology, 30 (part B): 466-471.

Zhao Yu-chao, Li Feng, Chen Fu-you, Li Gang, Wang Shan, Gao Xing.

2015 Minimum Analytical Nodules Analysis of Stone Artifacts from the Xujiacheng Site, Gansu Province, North China. Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 34(3): 318-329. (In Chinese with English abstract)

Chen Fu-you, Li Gang, Li Yu, Li Feng.

2015 A Preliminary Report of the Huangniliang Paleolithic Site, Shandong Province. Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 34(1): 21-27. (In Chinese with English abstract)

Li Chao-rong, Li Feng, Li Hao.

2014 A Study of the Stone Artifacts from the Excavation of the Hongshikan I Site in the Danjiangkou Reservoir. Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 33(1): 17-26. (In Chinese with English abstract)

Wang Ying-hua, Liu Jia-xu, Shan Ming-chao, Li Feng, Chen Fu-you.

2014 A Preliminary Report of the Stone Artifacts from the 27th Cave of the Dayao Site. Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 34(1): 51-59. (In Chinese with English abstract)

Chen Fu-you, Li Feng, Zhang Yue, Zhang Xiao-ling

2013 Shuidonggou locality 2. In: Shuidonggou-Excavation and Research (2003-2007) Report, edited by Gao Xing, Wang Hui-min, Pei Shu-wen, Chen Fu-you et al., Beijing: Science Press, pp. 51-72. (In Chinese with English abstract)

Chen Fu-you, Li Feng, Wang Hui-min, Pei Shu-wen, Feng Xing-wu, Zhang Shuang-quan, Zhang Yue, Liu De-cheng, Zhang Xiao-ling, Guan Ying, Gao Xing.

2012 A preliminary report on excavation at Shuidonggou Locality 2 in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, North China. Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 31 (4):317-333. (In Chinese with English abstract)

Guan Ying, Gao Xing, Li Feng, Pei Shu-wen, Chen Fu-you, Zhou Zhen-yu.

2012 Modern human behaviors during the late stage of the MIS3 and the Broad Spectrum Revolution: evidence from a Shuidonggou Late Paleolithic Site. Chinese Science Bulletin 57: 379-386.

Xu Xin, Li Feng, Chen Fu-you, Huang Xin, Gao Xing

2012 The Paleolithic remains newly found near the Liuhuaishan Site. Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 31 (2):144-150. (In Chinese with English abstract)

Li Chao-rong, Li Feng, Li Hao

2010 Hongshikan Paleolithic Site at Danjiangkou. In Significant finds at South-to-North Water Diversion Project in Hubei Province, edited by Cultural Heritage Bureau of Hubei Province, Cultural Relics Publishing House, Beijing, pp. 14-18. (In Chinese)

Wang Chun-xue, Zhang Yue, Li Feng

2009 Symbolic meanings of Personal Ornament in the Late Paleolithic Age. Ethnic arts, 2009, (3):94-99. (In Chinese)

Selected archaeological field and laboratory experience


2015	The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences. Artifact observation and research.
2015	Shixiakou locality 1 in Gansu Province. Field director.
2015	Banjingzi Site in Nihewan Basin. Field director.
2015	Nihewan Basin and Inner Mongolia. Paleolithic investigation with Prof. Gao Xing, Prof. John Olsen, and prof. Steven Kuhn.
2014	University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. Field trip, presentation and artifact observation.
2014	Shixiakou locality 2 in Gansu province. Field director.
2014	Shuidonggou Locality 2 in Ningxia. Excavation method workshop (With Prof. Shannon McPherron and Dr. Fei Peng); Field work co-director.
2013	Dazhushan site in Shandong Province. Archaeological field crew member and lithic analysis.
2013	Yangshang site in Gansu Province. Field director, Excavation and Lithic analysis.
2013	Luonan Basin in Shannxi Province. Artifact observations with Prof. Steven L. Kuhn.
2013	Jinsitai cave site in Inner Mongolia, North China. Archaeological field crew member and lithic analysis.
2012, 2013	Huangniliang Paleolithic site in Shandong Province, North China. Archaeological field crew member.
2012	University of Arizona. Core technology analysis with Prof. Steven L. Kuhn on the collections from Tabun Cave, Israel.
2010, 2011	Laboratory of Human Evolution, Institute of vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology. Researched stone artifacts from the Xujiacheng Site in Gansu and Shuidonggou Locality 2 in Ningxia.
2010	Laboratory of Human Evolution, Institute of vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology. Grain size and Magnetic susceptibility analysis of Loess sediment from the Xujiacheng Paleolithic site.
2009, 2010	Zhoukoudian Locality 1 Paleolithic Site in Beijing, North China. Archaeological field crew member.
2009	Xujiacheng Paleolithic Site in Gansu Province, North China. Co-director, Excavation and Lithic analysis.
2009	Shuiluo and Qingshui River valley in Gansu Province, North China. Investigation, in charge of Paleolithic findings.
2008, 2009	Daerwo Paleolithic Site in Guizhou Province, South China. Archaeological field crew member and lithic analysis.
2008	Chongzuo in Guangxi Province, South China. Archaeological field crew member.
2007	Shuidonggou Paleolithic Site (Locality 2, 9 and 12) in Ningxia, North China. Archaeological field crew member.

Research presented at Symposium and meetings

2015	Formation of Chinese Late Paleolithic: evidence from Longxi Loess Plateau in Gansu Province. Long Gang prehistoric symposium in Hanzhong, Shannxi Province. Hanzhong, November, 2015.
2014	Population interactions during MIS3 of North China: evidence from lithic technology. The 14th Chinese Paleontology Association and the 5th Chinese Paleolithic Association of Chinese Quaternary Association Symposium, Qianxi, April, 2014.
2013	New progresses at Shuidonggou Locality 2: Chronology, technology, and mobility (presentation). International Symposium in Commemoration of the 90th Anniversary of the Discovery of Shuidonggou, Yingchuan, June, 2013.
2010	The Xujiacheng Paleolithic assemblage in Gansu, North China (poster). The third Asian Paleolithic Association International Symposium, Gongju, Korea, October 11, 2010.
2010	Investigation and Excavation in Shuiluo and Qingshui River valley in 2009 (presentation). 10th Chinese Quaternary Congress (CHIQUA), Lanzhou, China, August 18, 2010.
2010	A preliminary report on excavation of the Xujiacheng Site (presentation). The international Symposium in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the “Yunxian Man”, Yunxian, China, June 14, 2009.
2009	A report on the 2009 reconnaissance of Paleolithic remains in the Shuiluo and Qingshui River valley, Gansu Province (presentation). International symposium on Paleoanthropology in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the discovery of the first skull of Peking Man and the first Asian conference on Quaternary research, Beijing, China, October 19, 2009.

Research projects

2016-2018	National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No: 41502022). “Lithic technology and behavioral adaptation in the early and middle stages of the Late Pleistocene in Shandong coastal areas”.
2015	National Science Foundation for Fostering Talents in Basic Research of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No: J1210008). “Behavioral variability in the Late Pleistocene of North China: a case study on Shuidonggou locality 2”
2013-2016	General Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No: 41272032). Lithic analysis and Paleolithic land use (participant).
2011-2015	The CAS Strategic Priority Research Program (Grant No: XDA05130202). Lithic analysis (participant).
2012-2014	National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No: 41102016). Raw material analysis (participant).
2007-2012	National Special Project for Research Groundwork. The Ministry of Science & Technology of China (Grant No: 2007FY110200). Research stone artifacts from Shuidonggou Locality 2 in Ningxia (participant).