Archaeology Program
La Trobe University
Victoria 3086
AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 3 9479 2385
Fax: +61 3 9479 1881
Email: archaeology
@latrobe.edu.au
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Archaeology Program
Staff Directory
Professor Li Liu
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Professor
Room:Martin Building 166
Tel: (61 3) 9479 1392
Fax: (61 3) 9479 1881
Email: l.liu@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BA(Hons) NW, MA Temple, PhD Harv. |
Initially educated in China, Professor Li Liu was a researcher during the early 1980s at the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, Xi'an, China. She came to La Trobe University as a lecturer in 1996, having taught previously at Tufts University and Johns Hopkins University in the United States.
She currently teaches East Asian Archaeology, Chinese Archaeology, and Rise and Fall of Civilisations. Her research deals with Neolithic and Bronze Age China, focusing on topics such as settlement pattern, social complexity, political economy, ritual practice, state formation, craft specialization, and zooarchaeology.
Research Projects
- Settlement Patterns, Craft Production, and the Rise of Early States in China
Recent results have been published as a special section in the first online issue of Bippa (Volume 27, 2007) at http://ejournal.anu.edu.au/index.php/bippa/
- The origins of Asian domestic buffalo and its role in the development of agriculture technology.
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Professor Li Liu has been extensively published in English and Chinese. Some recent English publications include:
Books
- 2004 (Li Liu) The Chinese Neolithic: Trajectories to Early States. Cambridge University Press.
- 2003 (Li Liu and Xingcan Chen). State Formation in Early China. Duckworth. It has been translated into Korean by Jae-hoon Shim, and has been published by Hakyon munhwasa Press in South Korea in 2006.
Book chapters
- Liu, L (2008) 'Grinding stones, nut collection, and origins of sedentism and agriculture in prehistoric China', Qingzhu Hebingdi xiansheng jiushi huadan lunwenji (Papers for the Celebration of Ping-ti Ho's 90th Birthday), Ed(s). Ping-ti Ho's 90th Birthday Editorial Board, Xi'an, Sanqin Press, pp. 105-132.
In press (2008)
- (Xingcan Chen, Li Liu and Chunyan Zhao). Southern Shanxi Salt and the Development of Early States in China. In Salt Production in China in a Comparative Perspective, Salt Archaeology in China, vol. 2. Eds. by Lothar von Falkenhausen and Shuichang Li. Beijing: Kexue Chubanshe.
- (Li Liu) Early figurations in China: Ideological, social, and ecological implications. In Material Beginnings: A Global Prehistory of Figurative Representation. Eds. by Renfrew, C. and Morley, I. McDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge.
2006
- (Li Liu ) Urbanization in China: Erlitou and its hinterland. In Urbanism in the Preindustrial World: Cross-Cultural Approaches, edited by Glenn Storey, pp.161-189. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
- (Li Liu and Xingcan Chen) Sociopolitical change from Neolithic to Bronze Age China. In Archaeology of Asia. Edited by Miriam T. Stark, pp.149-176. Blackwell Publishers, Malden, Oxford, and Carlton.
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