DONG, YU 董豫
Professor
Institute of Cultural Heritage, Shandong University
72 Binhai Rd, Jimo, Qingdao, 266237, Shandong Province, China
Email: yudong@sdu.edu.cn
EDUCATION
Ph. D. in Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign (UIUC), 2013
M.A. in Archaeometry, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), 2006
B.A. in Archaeometry, University of Science and Technology of China, 2004
B.S. in Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, 2003
RESEARCH INTEREST
Stable isotope analysis, Neolithic and Bronze Age China, the development of complex societies, the development of agriculture, gender archaeology
EMPLOYMENT AND VISITING POSITIONS
2017.09- present Professor, Institute of Cultural Heritage, Shandong University, China
2013.10-2017.08 Assistant Professor, School of History and Culture, Shandong University
2018.08-2019.01 Visiting Scholar, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK
2016.02-2016.08 Visiting Postdoc, GeoGenetics Center, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
AWARDS
2020 Frist Prize, Excellent achievement award of social sciences, Shandong Province
2019 Third Prize, Excellent achievement award of social sciences, Shandong Province
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2018 Visiting Fellowship, British Academy
2018 Marsden Fund, Royal Society, New Zealand (co-PI with three other professors)
2017 National Natural Science Foundation of China
2014 The Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry
2012 Dissertation Completion Grant, Graduate College, UIUC
2011 The Wenner-Gren Foundation, Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
2010 Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Grants in East and Southeast Asian Archaeology and Early History, for dissertation research
COURSES TAUGHT
Archaeological Sciences
GIS in Archaeology
Seminar on Archaeological Theories
PUBLICATIONS
Edited Volume
Fengshi Luan, Fen Wang, Yu Dong (editors)
2017 Longshan Culture and Early Civilizations under Comparative Perspectives. Cultural Relics Press, Beijing (in Chinese).
Selected Journal Articles
Dong, Yu*, Xiaoguang Bi, Rubi Wu, Eric J. Belfield, Nicholas P. Harberd, Bent T. Christensen, Mike Charles, and Amy Bogaard.
2022 The potential of stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of foxtail and broomcorn millets for investigating ancient farming systems. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13:1018 312 .
Christensen, Bent T., Johannes L. Jensen, Yu Dong, and Amy Bogaard.
2022 Manure for millet: Grain δ15N values as indicators of prehistoric cropping intensity of Panicum miliaceum and Setaria italica. Journal of Archaeological Science 139:105 554.
Dong, Yu#,*, Songtao Chen#, Stanley H Ambrose, Anne Underhill, Xue Ling, Mingkui Gao, Zhenguang Li, Fengshi Luan, Guiyun Jin.
2021 Social and environmental factors influencing dietary choices among Dawenkou culture sites, Late Neolithic China. The Holocene, 521: 44-53.
Miller, Melanie J*, Yu Dong*, Kate Pechenkina, Wenquan Fan, Sian E Halcrow.
2020 Raising girls and boys in early China: Stable isotope data reveal sex differences in weaning and childhood diets during the eastern Zhou era. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 172: 567-585.
Songtao Chen, Qiuwei Yu, Mingkui Gao, Melanie Miller, Guiyun Jin*, Yu Dong*
2019 Dietary evidence of incipient social stratification at the Dawenkou type site, China. Quaternary International 521: 44–53.
Dong, Yu, Liugen Lin, Xiaoting Zhu, Fengshi Luan, Anne P Underhill
2019 Mortuary ritual and social identities during the late Dawenkou period in China. Antiquity 93: 378–392.
Dong, Yu, Chelsea Morgan, Yurii Chinenov, Ligang Zhou, Wenquan Fan, Xiaolin Ma, and Kate Pechenkina
2017 Shifting diets and the rise of male-biased inequality on the Central Plains of China during Eastern Zhou. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(5): 932–93 7.
Dong, Yu, and Fengshi Luan
2017 Thoughs on the social organization of late Dawenkou culture—evidences from DNA and stable isotopes. Kaogu 2017(7): 98-107 (in Chinese).
Dong, Yu, and Hui Fang
2017 The chemical identification and provenance study of cinnabar remains from pre-Qin sites. Dongnan Wenhua 259: 89-95 (in Chinese).
Dong, Yu, Chunxiang Li, Fengshi Luan, Zhenguang Li, Hongjie Li, Yinqiu Cui, Hui Zhou, and Ripan S Malhi
2015 Low mitochondrial DNA diversity in an ancient population from China: Insight into social organization at the Fujia site. Human Biology 87(1): 71–84.
Dong, Yu, Kristin Hedman, Eve Hargrave.
2010 Health and diet at the Drda site (11MS32), Madison County, Illinois. Illinois Archaeology 22(2): 668-689.
Dong, Yu, Yaowu Hu, Quanchao Zhang, Yaping Cui, Li Guan, Changsui Wang, Xin Wan
2007 Stable isotopic analysis on human bones of Lamadong site, Beipiao, Liaoning Prov. Acta Anthropologica Sinica 26(1): 77-84 (in Chinese).
Jayasingha, Priyanta, Yu Dong, Changsui Wang, and Rui Wen.
2006 Preliminary study on provenance of ceramics found in Mantai (Sri Lanka). Archaeology and Cultural Relics 155 (3): 76-81 (in Chinese).
