Areas of Interest<br />
Cui Jianxin got her PHD from Lanzhou University in summer 2005. Just in the same year, she joined the Shaanxi Normal University. Her specialty is Envrionmental Archaeology. In recent years, she began the studies of Landscape Archaeology and she was interested in the RS and GIS methods used in Archaeology. Her chronological and geographic interests include Neolithic of North China Plain; the climate history and the ancient cities during the past 2000 years of China; and the interactions among political, cultures and the climate. The interdisciplinary research based on various data sources and a variety of technical means were explored.<br />
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Research Work<br />
2005—2012 Shaanxi Normal University, Center for Historical Environment and Socio-Economic Development in Northwest China, Assistant Professor<br />
2013-present. Shaanxi Normal University, Institute for Historical Environment and Socio-Economic Development in Northwest China, Associate Professor<br />
March 2013-March 2014. Visiting scholar of Stanford University<br />
2010-present, Master's supervisor<br />

Book<br />
Cui Jianxin. Climate and culture: environmental archaeology research based on multi-sources data and multi- methods. Science Press Ltd., 2012.<br />
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Papers<br />
1.Zhouyong Sun, Jing Shao, Li Liu*, Jianxin Cui, Michael F. Bonomoc, Qinghua Guo, Xiaohong Wu, Jiajing Wang. The first Neolithic urban center on China's north Loess Plateau: The rise and fall of Shimao. Archaeological Research in Asia, 2018, 14: 33-45.<br />
2.Jianxin Cui, Hong Chang, Kaiyue Cheng, George S. Burr. Climate Change, Desertification, and Societal Responses along the Mu Us Desert Margin during the Ming Dynasty. Weather, Climate and Society, 2017, 9(1):81-94<br />
3.Baoming Jiang, Jianxin Cui*, Spatial characteristics of the Yangshao － Longshan sites and its environmental background in Qishuihe basin. Journal of Arid Land Resources and Environment, 2017，31(8): 63-68.<br />
4.Yunfa Miao, Heling Jin, Jianxin Cui. Human activity accelerating the rapid desertification of the Mu Us Sandy Lands, North China. Scientific Reports, 2016, 6:23003 | DOI: 10.1038/srep23003.<br />
5.Li Liu, Sai Ma, Jianxin Cui. Identification of starch granules using a two-step identification method, Journal of Archaeological Science, accepted.<br />
6.Cui Jianxin, Chang Hong. The possible climate impact on the collapse of an ancienturban city in Mu Us Desert, China, Regional Environmental Change, 2013, 13:353-364.<br />
7.Cui Jianxin, Chang Hong, Liu Quanjun. Spatial interpolation method of soil temperature of Ketu desert on east of Qinghai Lake. Agricultural Research in the Arid Areas, 2013, 30(5):185-192. (In Chinese with English Abstract)<br />
8.Cui Jianxin, Zhou Shangzhe. Temporal and Spatial Distribution Pattern of Early- Middle Holocene Cultures and Its Possible Environmental Driver Factors in the North China Plain. Journal of Chinese Historical Geography, 2011, 26(4):66-76. (In Chinese with English Abstract)<br />
9.Cui Jianxin, Zhou Shangzhe, Chang Hong. The Holocene warm-humid phases as recorded by multi-proxy records. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2009, 27(1):158-172.<br />
10.Cui Jianxin, Zhou Shangzhe. Evolution Dynamics of the Chinese Neolithic Cultures. Journal of Chinese Historical Geography, 2008, 23(2):33-45. (In Chinese with English Abstract)<br />
11.Cui Jianxin, Zhou Shangzhe, Chang Hong. Advances of the Geoarcheology in the Holocene, Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology. 2005,27(6):913-919．(In Chinese with English Abstract)<br />
12.Cui Jianxin, Zhou Shangzhe, Fluvial Lacustrine Sediments and Holocene Climatic and Hydrologic Events in the Renqiu Section, China. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, 2005, 25(4)：107-113．(In Chinese with English Abstract)<br />
13.Cui Jianxin, Zhou Shangzhe. A study on the floods and the cultures of 4000 years ago. Journal of Lanzhou University (Natural Sciences), 2003, 39(3):94-97. (In Chinese with English Abstract)<br />
14.Cui Jianxin, Zhou Shangzhe. The primary understanding of the climatic abruptness. Journal of Hebei Normal University(Natural Science Edition), 2001, 25(6): 264-266．(In Chinese with English Abstract)<br />
15.Zhou Shangzhe, Xuliubing, Cui Jianxin, Zhang Xiaowei, Zhao Jingdong. Geomorphologic evolution and environmental changes in the Shaluli Mountain region during the Quaternary. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2005, 50(1):52-57<br />
16.Xu Liubing, Zhou Shangzhe, Cui Jianxin, Wang Jie ,David Mickelson. Dating of the Pleistocene Glaciations around the Daocheng Ice Cap. Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology, 2004, 26(5):528-534. (In Chinese with English Abstract)<br />
17.Xu Liubing, Zhou Shangzhe, Li Chang’ai, Cui Jianxin, Zhao Jingdong, Ye Yuguang. The Quaternary Glaciation in Rongbacha and Correlation with the Loess - Paleosol in Garzê. Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology, 2003,25 (5):504-509. (In Chinese with English Abstract)<br />
18.Zhou Shangzhe, Jiao Keqin, Zhao Jingdong, Zhang Shiqiang, Cui Jianxin, Xu Liubing, Geomorphology of the River valley and the uplift of the Tianshan Mountains in Quaternary. Science in China，2002, 45(1):961-968.<br />
19.Zhao Jingdong, Zhou Shangzhe, Cui Jianxin, Jiao Keqin, Ye Yuguang, Xu Liubing. ESR Dating of Glacial Tills at the Headwaters of the Urümqi River in the Tianshan Mountains. Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology, 2002，24(6)：737-743．(In Chinese with English Abstract)<br />
20.Zhao Jingdong, Zhou Shangzhe, Cui Jianxin, Pan Xiaoduo, Xu Liubing, Zhang Xiaowei. ESR Chronology of Bailanghe Valley and New Understanding of Qilianshan Mountain’s Quaternary Glaciation. Journal Of Mountain Science, 2001,19(6)：481-488．(In Chinese with English Abstract)<br />

Directed Projects：<br />
1.  Project title: Climatic change and human responses during 5-4 ka in Hetao Region. This project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Grant No. 41571190, 2015-2019.<br />
2.  2017-2021.The research shed light on the interactive relation between climatic change and the human responses since Ming-Qing period. Project title: the Ming-Qing Transition and its climatic background. This project was supported the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.<br />
3.  Directed the field regional survey and the sample analysis project of the North China Plain. Project title: the warm period from 5000 a BP to 3000 a BP of the North China Plain and its relations to the late Neolithic culture process. This project was supported by the Humanities and social science project of the Ministry of education, Grant No. 06JC780001, finished.<br />
4. Jan. 2011-Dec. 2014, Directed the field regional survey and the data analysis based on GIS and RS around Tongwan City Site. This project was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Grant No. 10SZYB10, finished.<br />
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Participated Projects：<br />
1. 2017-2020. In charge of the field work and environment reconstruction during the history period. Project title: Survey on the Chinese desert change based on geological deposit records and the human occupation sites. This project was supported by the Special Program for Basic Resources Investigation of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Grant No. 2017FY101002.<br />
2.2015-2019. In charge of the grain size measurement, data analysis and geomorphology process model. Project title: uplift process and tectonic deformation of Kunlun Mountains in Cenozoic. This project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Grant No. 41572116.<br />
3.2012-2016. In charge of the quantity research on the soil erosion of the Loess Plateau during the history period. Project title: ecology evolution and the sustainable development of the Loess Plateau and the surrounding sand. This project was supported by the Key Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Grant No. KZZD-EW-04-01, finished.<br />
4.2007-2013.In charge of filed measurement of temperature and humid of Ketu desert around Qinghai Lake and the spatial analysis of data based on GIS software. Project title: Combating Sandification of Ketu Sands around Qinghai Lake. This project was supported by the National Key Technology Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Grant No. 2007BAC30B03-04, finished.<br />
5. Dec. 2008-Dec.2012. Collected and analyzed the archaeological materials of Lop-Nor Region. Project title: Environmental base and the human impact on the drought of Northwest China: evidence on Lop-Nor Region. This project was supported by the West Light Foundation of The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Grant No. 2008YB01, finished.<br />