Crafting Human Beings: Acquisition of Human Tool-Making Skills from the Perspectives of Ethnology and Experimental Archaeology

Title: The Making of Makers: An Ethnographic and Experimental Archaeological Perspective on Human Toolmaking Skill Acquisition

Speaker: LIU Cheng, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Emory University

Host: YUAN Haibing, Associate Professor, Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University

Speaker Bio: LIU Cheng is a Ph.D. candidate at Emory University. He previously served as a Special Researcher at the University Museum, University of Tokyo, and a Global Scholar at the Senckenberg Nature Research Society. His research focuses on prehistoric Eurasian and African hunter-gatherer societies, lithic technology, cognitive archaeology, and cultural evolution. He has participated in numerous field archaeological excavations and laboratory analysis projects in China, Ethiopia, and other regions. He has received funding from the Leakey Foundation, the Senckenberg Nature Research Society, the International Society for Human Behavioral Ecology, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the National Science Foundation, among other institutions. He has published multiple papers in international journals indexed by SCIE/SSCI/AHCI.

Time: December 3, 2024, 15:00-17:00

Location: Conference Room 518, Liberal Arts Building II, Jiang'an Campus, Sichuan University