I. Basic Information

Song Jixiang, born in 1980, is from Yantai, Shandong Province. He received a Bachelor of Arts in History from Shandong University in 2003; a Master of Arts in History from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2007; and a Ph.D. from University College London in 2011. He is currently an associate research fellow in the Department of Archaeology, School of History and Culture, Sichuan University.

Research direction: Archaeobotany

Mailing address: School of History and Culture, Sichuan University, 29 Wangjiang Road, Chengdu, Sichuan

Postal code: 610064

II. Field Experience

March-May 2002: Participated in the excavation of the Jiaochangpu site in Liaocheng, Shandong

July 2003: Participated in the excavation of the Xixiang site in Jinan County, Shandong

July 2004: Participated in flotation work at the Xinzhai site in Henan

November 2005: Participated in flotation work at the Tonglin site in Shandong

April-May 2006: Participated in the survey, excavation, and flotation work at the Xipo site in Lingbao, Henan

III. Academic Achievements

Papers

1. Song Jixiang, "A Review of Research on Millet Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China," Agricultural Archaeology, No. 4, 2006: 163-167, 203;

2. Fuller DQ, Sato Y-I, Castillo C, Qin L, Weisskopf AR, Kingwell-Banham EJ, Song J, Ahn A-M, van Etten J (2010) Consilience of genetics and archaeobotany in the entangled history of rice. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 2 (2): 115-131.

3. Song J, Zhao Z, Fuller DQ, 2012. The archaeobotanical significance of immature millet grains: An experimental case study of Chinese millet processing，Vegetation History and Archaeobotany，DOI:10.1107/s00334-012-0366-y

4. Song Jixiang, Zhao Zhijun, Fu Daolian, "An Attempt to Apply Experimental Archaeology in Archaeobotanical Research," Southern Cultural Relics, accepted.

5. Translation: "From Region to Locality: Pollen Analysis in Swedish Archaeology," by Per Lagerås, translated by Song Jixiang, published in: Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Archaeological Institute of the Swedish National Heritage Board, eds., Collection of Papers from the First Sino-Swedish Archaeological Forum: Chinese Archaeology and Swedish Archaeology, Science Press, 2006. 192-200;

IV. Academic Exchange

On November 10 and 11, 2011, respectively, gave a presentation titled "A regional case in the development of agriculture and crop processing in northern China from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age: archaeobotanical evidence from the Sushi River survey, Shanxi Province" at the Department of Archaeology, University College London, and the George Pitt-Rivers Laboratory, McDonald Institute, University of Cambridge.

V. Academic Conferences

On June 29, 2012, gave a presentation titled "Agricultural Development and Crop Processing from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in Northern China: Preliminary Results of Archaeobotanical Survey in the Sushi River Basin, Shanxi" at the "Archaeobotanical Academic Exchange Symposium."

VI. Projects Undertaken and Participated In

1. Comparative Study of Early Agriculture in the Middle and Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River, Research Startup Fund Project for Introduced Talents of Sichuan University, 2012-2015.

2. 2004-2007, undertook the flotation work in the archaeological excavation of the Tonglin site in Linzi, Shandong, hosted by the School of Archaeology and Museology of Peking University, and completed the later laboratory work and analysis and research, and wrote the master's thesis "Analysis of Plant Remains Excavated from the Tonglin Site in Shandong", this research belongs to the National Science and Technology Support Program "Exploration of the Origin of Chinese Civilization" - one of the important contents of the "Technology and Economic Research" project.

3. 2007-2011, undertook the laboratory work and analysis and research of flotation samples in the Sushi River Basin, and completed the analysis report "Preliminary Study of Archaeobotanical Survey in the Sushi River Basin, Shanxi", this research belongs to the National Science and Technology Support Program "Exploration of the Origin of Chinese Civilization" - one of the important contents of the "Technology and Economic Research" project.

4. 2004-2007, participated in the major research project of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences "The Relationship between the Changes of Ecological Environment and the Formation and Development of Ancient Civilization in the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yellow River"

5. 2005-2007, participated in the National Natural Science Foundation of China project (project approval number: 40571155) "The Relationship between the Evolution of Ecological Environment and the Origin and Development of Dryland Agriculture in the Upper Reaches of the Xiliao River"