Title of Lecture: Stable isotope evidence of ancient human and animal diets in China


Lecturer: Prof. Hu Yaowu


Host: Prof. Wang Shejiao


Time: 10:00  a.m.


Date: 2015-5-20


Venue: Wendao Lecture Hall Chongyu Buildin(second floor), Yanta Campus


Hosted by: Institute for Historical Environment and Socio-Economic Development in Northwest China

Profile of the Lecturer:

Prof. Hu Yaowu, Director of Department of Scientific History and Archaeometry, School of Humanities, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Research Professor of Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Research Interests

Palaeodietary reconstruction, Animal Domestication and Feeding Practices

Representative Publication:

Yaowu Hu, Hong Shang, et al.. Stable Isotope Dietary Analysis of the Tianyuan 1 Early Modern Human. PNAS. 2009, 106,(27): 10971–10974 .


Yaowu Hu, Marshall F.Reply to Bar-Oz et al.. Commensalism and mutualism as early incentives for cat domestication. PNAS, 2014,111(10): 877.


Yaowu Hu, Stanley H. Ambrose, et al.. Stable Isotopic Analysis of Human Bones from Jiahu Site, Henan, China: Implications for the Transition to Agriculture. Journalof Archaeological Science，2006，33：1319－1330


Yaowu Hu, Shougong Wang, et al.. Stable isotope analysis of humans from Xiaojingshan site: implications for understand the origin of millet agriculture in China. Journal of Archaeological Science, 2008, 35: 2960－2965.


Supported Projects


Max-Planck Institute Partnership Group Project, The Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China