Basic Information

Li Lan is from Nanchong, Sichuan. In 2007, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Nanjing University. In September 2007, she began studying for a Master's degree in Quaternary Geology at the School of Geography, Nanjing University. At the end of 2011, she received a Ph.D. in Quaternary Geology from Nanjing University. In 2012, she started working in the Department of Archaeology, Sichuan University and is still working there. From 2016 to 2017, she was a visiting scholar at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.

Main research directions: environmental archaeology, climate change, geoarchaeology.

Field Experience

She has participated in the excavation of sites such as the burial tombs of Emperor Han Jingdi's Yangling Mausoleum in Shaanxi (2005), the Shuping Site in Zigui, Hubei (2005), the Karuo Site in Qamdo (2012), and the Baodun Site in Chengdu (2013).

She has participated in the on-site investigation and environmental analysis of sites such as the Liangwangcheng Site in Jiangsu, the Tenghualuo Site in Lianyungang (2007), the Luotuodun Site in Yixing (2007), the Tingchigang Site in Yancheng (2009), the Dongshancun Site in Zhangjiagang (2010), the Huangsipu Site in Zhangjiagang (2010), the Shunshanji Site in Suqian (2010), the Zhongqiao Site in Shayang, Hubei (2009), the Hongqiaogou Site in Chengdu (2012), the Baodun Site in Chengdu (2013), and the Handongcheng Site in Chongqing (2013).

Projects Undertaken

Research on settlements and environment during the Baodun Culture period in Chengdu Plain, National Social Science Fund (2016-2019), Principal Investigator

Pollen analysis of human-associated plants in the strata of the Zhongba Site in Chongqing, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Sichuan University - Research Startup Project for Young Teachers (2012-2015), Principal Investigator

Teaching exploration of the small class experiment course "Environmental Archaeology", Sichuan University New Century Education and Teaching Reform Project (Phase VI) (2015), Principal Investigator

Environmental archaeological research on the Handongcheng Site in Yongchuan, Chongqing, Chongqing Institute of Cultural Heritage (2013-2015), Principal Investigator

Environmental archaeological research on the impact of climate-sea level changes on the Neolithic civilization process in Jiangsu, National Natural Science Foundation of China (2011-2014), Participant

Papers and Monographs

Analysis of the Holocene sedimentary environment of the Dongshancun Site, Excavation report of the Dongshancun Neolithic Site, Cultural Relics Publishing House, 2017

Cultural changes and environmental changes in the mid-Holocene in Jiangsu, Research on Environmental Archaeology, Volume 5, Science Press, 2016

Holocene environmental changes revealed by the strata of the Dongshancun Site in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, Archaeology and Cultural Relics, 2015

New progress in archaeological collaboration in Southwest China, Southern Ethnic Archaeology, 2015

Study on the Holocene sedimentary environment of the Luotuodun Site in Yixing, Jiangsu, Quaternary Research, 2010

Records of marine transgression events from 7400BC to 5400BC in the strata of the Luotuodun Site in Yixing, Jiangsu, Acta Geographica Sinica, 2008

Research on the disappearance causes of the Tenghualuo site in lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2008,

Evidence for marine transgression between 7500-5400BC at the luotuodun site in Yixing, Jiangsu Province. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2009

Relationship between archaeological sites distribution and environment from 1.15 Ma BP to 278 BC in Hubei Province. Journal of Geographical Sciences锛�2011

Relative Sea-Level Rise, Site Distributions and Neolithic Settlement in the Early to mid-Holocene, Jiangsu Province, China锛孴he Holocene, accept

Zhu Cheng, Li Lan, Liu Wanqing, et al. Introduction to Environmental Archaeology, Science Press, September 2013