Personal Information
Date of Birth: December 1989
Gender: Male
Political Affiliation: Communist Party Member
Education
2022 Ph.D. in Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Anthropology
Doctoral Dissertation: The resilience of agro-pastoral communities in high altitude central Tibet: Zooarchaeological and stable isotope investigations at Bangga, 3000–2200 BP
Doctoral Dissertation Committee: Liu Xinyi (Chair), Fiona B. Marshall (Co-chair), Michael Frachetti (Member), Robbie Hart (Member), T.R. Kidder (Member), Helina Woldekiros (Member)
2018 M.A. in Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Anthropology
Master's Thesis: Hunters and Farmers as the Earliest Permanent Inhabitants on the Eastern Tibetan Plateau: Faunal Assemblage from the Xiaoenda Site
Advisors: Liu Xinyi, Fiona B. Marshall
2016 M.A. in History, Department of Archaeology, School of History and Culture, Sichuan University
Master's Thesis: 《The Exploitation of Prehistoric Animal Resources on the Tibetan Plateau》
Advisors: Lü Hongliang, He Kunyu
2013 B.A. in History, Department of Archaeology, School of History and Culture, Sichuan University (Honorary Degree from Wu Yuzhang College)
Undergraduate Thesis: 《Preliminary Identification and Analysis of Animal Remains Excavated from the Karuo Site in 2012》
Advisor: Li Yongxian
2011 – 2012 Exchange Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington
Research Interests
Prehistoric Archaeology of the Tibetan Plateau, Pastoral Archaeology, Zooarchaeology, Stable Isotope Archaeology
Courses Taught
Zooarchaeology (Undergraduate Course, Sichuan University, Course Number: 106845040)
Awards
2019 – 2020 Robert W. Sussman Distinguished Graduate Student Award, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
2016 – 2022 Full Scholarship, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
2016 First Prize, Outstanding Master's Thesis, Sichuan University
2013 – 2016 Graduate Scholarship, Sichuan University (First Class in 2015-2016, Second Class in 2013-2015)
2013 First Prize, Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, Sichuan University
2013 First Prize, Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, Department of Archaeology, Sichuan University
Research Projects
2014 – 2020 Key Participant: “Comparative Study of Prehistoric Archaeological Cultures in the Tibetan Plateau and Adjacent Areas” (National Social Science Fund of China Project: 14BKG005, Principal Investigator: Lü Hongliang)
2020 – 2022 Co-Principal Investigator: Subsistence Adaptation in a High Altitude Environment, zooarchaeological and isotopic research at Bangga site and others ca 3000 BP, Central Tibet, China (National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Project: 2017247, Co-PIs: Liu Xinyi, Zhang Zhengwei)
Fieldwork Experience
6/2012 – 6/2012 Geophysical Survey of Mound Sites in the Illinois River Valley, USA
6/2012 – 8/2012 Archaeological Excavation at the Mound House Site, Illinois, USA
10/2013 – 1/2014 Excavation at the Baodun Site, Chengdu
7/2014 – 8/2014 Excavation at the Dawan Cave Site, Guizhou
7/2015 – 9/2015 Excavation at the Bangga Site and Archaeological Survey of the Yalong River Valley, Tibet
7/2016 – 8/2016 Excavation at the Bangga Site and Archaeological Survey of the Yalong River Valley, Tibet
6/2017 – 7/2017 Excavation at the Bangga Site and Archaeological Survey of the Yalong River Valley, Tibet
7/2018 – 8/2018 Excavation at the Bangga Site and Archaeological Survey of the Yalong River Valley, Tibet
10/2019 On-site Extraction of Animal Bones from the Daping Site, Sichuan
10/2022–1/2023 Archaeological Internship Excavation at the Zhuwajie Site, Pengzhou, Sichuan (Co-leading teacher)
Laboratory Experience
2012 Analysis of Animal Remains from the Karuo Site, Tibet
2013 Sorting and Analysis of Animal Remains Excavated from Hecun, Shanxi
2013 Sorting and Analysis of Animal Remains Excavated from Butaxiongqu Cemetery in Northern Tibet
2013 – 2014 Sorting and Analysis of Artifacts Excavated from the Baodun Site
2014 Sorting and Analysis of Animal Remains Excavated from Kadong Site, Ngari
2014 Sorting and Analysis of Animal Remains Excavated from the Dawan Cave Site
2012 – 2016 Sorting and Analysis of Animal Remains Excavated from the Asongnao Site, Jiuzhaigou
2015-Present Sorting and Analysis of Animal Remains Excavated from the Bangga Site, Tibet
2017 Sorting and Analysis of Animal Remains Excavated from the Xiaoenda Site, Tibet
2017-Present Sorting and Analysis of Animal Remains Excavated from the Haimenkou Site, Yunnan
2018-Present Stable Isotope Analysis of Animal Remains Excavated from Prehistoric Sites in Tibet
2019-Present Sorting and Analysis of Animal Remains Excavated from the Piyang Dongga Cemetery Complex, Tibet
2019-Present Sorting and Analysis of Animal Remains Excavated from the Malang Cemetery, Tibet
2019-Present Sorting and Analysis of Animal Remains Excavated from the Daping Site, Sichuan
2020-Present Stable Isotope Analysis of Animal Remains Excavated from Prehistoric Sites and Cemeteries in the Hexi Corridor
2021-Present Sorting and Analysis of Animal Remains from the Zongri Site, Qinghai
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (Before 2023)
2015 Zhang Zhengwei, Xia Gewangdui, Lü Hongliang, Suolang•Qiujinima: 《Identification and Analysis of Animal Remains from the Butaxiongqu Stone Chamber Tomb in Northern Tibet》, 《Tibetan Studies》 Vol. 12, 18.
2017 Song, J., Lü, H., Zhang, Z., & Liu, X. Archaeobotanical remains from the mid-first millennium AD site of Kaerdong in western Tibet. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 1-12.
2017 Zhang Zhengwei, Lü Hongliang: 《Identification and Analysis of Animal Remains Excavated from the 2013 Test Excavation at the Kadong Site in Ali, Western Tibet》, 《Tibetan Studies》 Vol. 16, 252-272.
2019 Song Jixiang, Lü Hongliang, Zhang Zhengwei, Liu Xinyi: 《Analysis of Flotation Results from the 2013 Excavation at the Kadong Site in Ali, Tibet》, 《Journal of Tibet University (Social Science Edition)》, 2019（1）。
2019 Zhang Zhengwei, et al., The importance of localized hunting of diverse animals to early inhabitants of the Eastern Tibetan Plateau at the Neolithic site of Xiaoenda, Quaternary International, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.09.019
2020 Lü Hongliang, Chen Xinzhou, Xia Gewangdui, Chen Zujun, Zhang Zhengwei: 《The 2015 Excavation of the Bangga Site in Qonggyai County, Tibet》, 《Archaeology》, 2020 (1), 37 – 45
2021 Li Tang, Hongliang Lü, Jixiang Song, Sharge Wangdue, Xinzhou Chen, Zhang Zhengwei, Xinyi Liu, Nicole Boivin. The transition to a barley-dominant cultivation system in Tibet: First millennium BC archaeobotanical evidence from Bangga. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 61, 101242.
2021 Song, J., Gao, Y., Tang, L., Zhang, Z., Tang, M. H., Xu, H., ... & Lu, H. Farming and multi-resource subsistence in the third and second millennium BC: archaeobotanical evidence from Karuo. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 13(3), 1-16.
2021 Hongliang Lü, Xinzhou Chen, Zhang Zhengwei, Li Tang, Ximena Lemoine de Pedro, Shargan Wangdue, Zujun Chen, Xinyi Liu, & Michael David Frachetti. Early agro-pastoral settlement and cultural change in central Tibet in the first millennium BC: excavations at Bangga. Antiquity, 95(382), 955-972.
2022 Zhang Zhengwei, Chen Zujun, Zhaxi Wangjia, Ze Ba Duoji, Xu Hailun, Liu Mengning, Lü Hongliang, Liu Xinyi: 《The Neolithic Hunting Economy in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau – Analysis of Animal Remains Excavated from the Xiaoenda Site in Qamdo, Tibet in 2012》, 《Tibetan Cultural Relics and Archaeological Research》 Vol. 4, pp. 119–170.
2022 Zhang, Z., F. Li, and F. Marshall. Comparative osteomorphological criteria for differentiating mandibular teeth and post-cranial skeletons of takins (Budorcas taxicolor) from Bovini species on Tibetan Plateau. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022. 10.
2022 Zhang, Z., Xu, H., Wangdue, S., Gao, X., Lü, H., Liu, X., & Marshall, F. High lamb natural mortality versus specialized culling at Bangga on the southern Tibetan Plateau 3000 BP. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3167.
Academic Presentations
2018 Hunters and Farmers as the Earliest Permanent Inhabitants on the Eastern Tibetan Plateau: Faunal Assemblage from the Xiaoenda Site. 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 15, 2018, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
2018 Hunters or Herders? The Importance of Wild Animal Resource to the Eastern Tibetan Plateau’s Earliest Inhabitants (And Something Else). Given at Friday Archaeology, Oct. 5th, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, U.S.A.
2019 Studying Herding Strategies in Prehistoric Central Tibet through Ethnoarchaeology and Isotopic Analysis, 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 11, 2019, Albuquerque, U.S.A.
2019 《Settled Hunters on the Tibetan Plateau in the Third Millennium BC: New Thoughts on Animal Archaeology in Eastern Tibet》, 10th National Symposium on Animal Archaeology, October 2019, Xi'an
2020 Studying herding strategies in prehistoric central Tibet through stable isotopic analysis. Given at Friday Archaeology, Nov. 6th, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, U.S.A.