Title: Associate Professor

Education:

· July 2013, B.A. in Archaeology, Northwest University

· July 2016, M.A. in Archaeology, Sichuan University

· July 2020, Ph.D. in History (Archaeology), Sichuan University

· Starting from July 2020, Postdoctoral Researcher, Postdoctoral Program of Archaeology, Northwest University

Research Interest: Archaeometallurgy

Major Academic Activities:

1. Principal Investigator, Study of the Iron Industry in the Hetao Region during the Eastern Zhou, Qin, and Han Periods (China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, General Funding Category II).

2. Principal Investigator, Survey and Research on Iron Smelting Sites in the Hetao Region during the Warring States, Qin, and Han Periods (Incubation Project of the National Social Science Fund of China organized by Northwest University).

Publications:

1. First Author: Forging or casting: new evidence of iron production in the Chengdu Plain in the Han dynasty. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 13, Article number: 111 (2021).

2. First Author: Metallographic analysis of the recent excavated domestic iron objects from Muyi, Yunnan Province, China. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 2020 Vol. 12: 144-151.

3. First Author: Iron production and trading in Lingnan during the Qin and Han Empires. Antiquity. 2020 Vol. 94 (373).

4. Second Author: A comprehensive study of the iron objects unearthed from the Qiaogoutou site in Yibin. Southern Ethnology and Archaeology Vol. 20.

5. Second Author: Early iron objects and iron smelting technology in China. Southern Ethnology and Archaeology Vol. 22.

6. Fifth Author: Early iron objects of southwest China: a case study of iron objects excavated from Qiaogoutou cemetery site, Sichuan Province. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 2019 Vol. 11: 1187-1198.

Email: zhangmengyi@nwu.edu.cn