Naihui Wang
Contact Information
Email: nwang@gea.mpg.de
Address: Kahlaische Str. 10, 07745 Jena
External links:
https://www.shh.mpg.de/employees/99431/25522
https://finderc.org/
Research Interests
I aim to use ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry) to identify fragmented bones from key Paleolithic archaeological sites across Eurasia, such as Vogelherd, Lusakert and especially sites in China. To obtain more information from the morphologically unidentified materials, the research of important remains like hominin bones will then be completed through a combination of techniques, including radiocarbon dating, stable isotope, and ancient DNA analyses.
Education
2021 - present: PhD candidate, the Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen
2019 - present: PhD researcher (FINDER project), Department of Archeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
2016 -2019: M.A., Department of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, China, Title: Identification of archaeological fermented residue with High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) analyzed biomarker
2012 -2016: B.Sc., Department of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, China, Title: The degradation of simulating buried Chinese wine charactered by amino acids with Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometer (GC-MS)
Publication
Naihui Wang, Samantha Brown, Peter Ditchfield, Sandra Hebestreit, Maxim Kozilikin, Sindy Luu, Oshan Wedage Stefano Grimaldi, Michael Chazan, Liora Horwitz Kolska, Matthew Spriggs, Glenn Summerhayes, Michael Shunkov, Kristine Korzow Richter, Katerina Douka. "Testing the efficacy and comparability of ZooMS protocols on archaeological bone." Journal of Proteomics 233 (2021): 104078.
Brown Samantha, Naihui Wang, Annette Oertle, Maxim B Kozlikin, Michael V Shunkov, Anatoly P Derevianko, Daniel Comeskey, Blair Jope-Street, Virginia L Harvey, Manasij Pal Chowdhury, Michael Buckley, Thomas Higham, Katerina Douka. "Zooarchaeology through the lens of collagen fingerprinting at Denisova Cave." Scientific Reports 11, no. 1 (2021): 15457.
Yang Xu, Naihui Wang, Shizhu Gao, Chunxiang Li, Pengcheng Ma, Shasha Yang, Hai Jiang, Shoujin Shi, Yanhua Wu, Quanchao Zhang, Yinqiu Cui. "Solving the two-decades-old murder case through joint application of ZooMS and ancient DNA approaches." International Journal of Legal Medicine 137, no. 2 (2023): 319-327.
Naihui Wang, Xu Yang, Zhuowei Tang, Cunding He, Xin Hu, Yinqiu Cui, Katerina Douka. "Large-scale application of palaeoproteomics (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry; ZooMS) in two Palaeolithic faunal assemblages from China." Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290, no. 2009 (2023): 20231129
Presentations
| 2023 | Workshop “Integrating ZooMS and zooarchaeology”, University of Kent, UK |
| 2022 | Poster “New human fossils and Occupation history of Vogelherd Cave revealed by Multi-analytical approaches”. European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE) 2022 meeting. |
| 2021 | Presentation “Preliminary ZooMS application on Paleolithic sites in East Asia” The 10th meeting of Asian Paleolithic Association, Zhengzhou, China |
| 2020 | Presentation “ZooMS as a new archaeological technique and its case studies”, Henan University, China |
| 2018 | Presentation, “The traditional distilling technique of maize spirit in Miao village”, The 13th National Symposium on Science History in China, Nanjing, China |
Training and fieldwork
| 2022 | Fieldwork at Hohle Fels, in the Lone Valley, Germany |
2021 | Lab collaboration on ZooMS, Jilin University, China |
2020 | Practical Palaeoproteomics Summer school, Copenhagen, Denmark |
2017 | Archaeological fieldwork at Neolithic Sunjia site, Xianyang, China. 1 month |
2016 | Summer school, Anthropological fieldwork in Wuling mountains, Jishou, China. 2 weeks |
2016 | Training of starch grain observation, Xiamen University, China |
2015 | Summer school, “History and Archaeology”, Sun Yat-Sen University, China |
2014 | Archaeological survey at sites along northern Silk Road, Xinjiang, China. 2 weeks |