Title: Associate Professor, Doctoral Supervisor
Honor: Outstanding Young Talent of Shaanxi Universities

Education and Employment:

· 2016, Ph.D., School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University

· 2016–2021, Lecturer, School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University

· 2021–present, Associate Professor, School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University

· 2022–2023, Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute, USA

Research Interests:
Ancient Subsistence Economy; Ritual Use of Animals; Domestic Horses and Society in Ancient Eurasia; Processing and Utilization of Bone Artifacts

Research Projects:

· Presided over: Sub-project of the Major Project of the National Social Science Fund of China; Western Project of the National Social Science Fund of China; Youth Project of the National Social Science Fund of China; Industry-Academia Cooperative Education Project of the Ministry of Education.

· Participated in: Sub-project of the Major Project of the National Social Science Fund of China; Key Project of the National Social Science Fund of China; Sub-project of the Major Research Project of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education; Regular Science and Technology Aid Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Representative Research Achievements (* Corresponding author):

International Publications:

1. Li, Y., Wu, L., Zhang, C., Liu, H., Huang, Z., Han, Y., Yuan, J. 2022. Horses in Qin mortuary practice: new insights from Emperor Qin Shihuang’s mausoleum. Antiquity 96(388): 903–919.

2. Li, Y., Huang, Z., Zhang, C., Hou, F., Liu, H., Zhao, D., Wang, Z., Qian, Y., Chen, H. 2022. Antler arrowhead crafting at Zaoshugounao in the Guanzhong region: Implications for worked bone production in Bronze Age northern China. Quaternary International 628: 54–63.

3. Li, Y., Zhang, C., Chen, H., Wang, Z., Qian, Y. 2021. Sika deer in the Bronze Age Guanzhong: sustainable wildlife use in ancient China?. Antiquity 95(382): 940–954.

4. Li, Y., Zhang, C., Huang, Z., Liu, H., Ren, M., Xi, T., Ma, J., Wang, J. 2021. Pastoral subsistence and mounted fighting in the Eastern Tianshan Mountain region: New insights from the Shirenzigou worked bone assemblage. PLoS ONE 16(12): e0259985.

5. Li, Y., Zhang, C., Taylor, W.T.T., Chen, L., Flad, R.K., Boivin, N., Liu, H., You, Y., Wang, J., Ren, M., Xi, T., Han, Y., Wen, R., Ma, J. 2020. Early evidence for mounted horseback riding in northwest China. PNAS 117(47): 29569–29576.

6. Li, Y., Zhang, C., Wang, Z., Dou, H., Liu, H., Hou, F., Ma, M., Qian, Y., Chen, H. 2020. Animal use in the late second millennium BCE in northern China: Evidence from Zaoshugounao and Zaolinhetan in the Jing River valley. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 30: 318–329.

7. Zhang, C., Liang, G., Liu, K., Huang, Z., Wang, Y., Li, Y*. 2025. The mortuary use of horses and their role in transport in northwestern China during the early first millennium AD: a zooarchaeological case study of Yangjiazhai. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 17: 80.

8. Zhang, C., Xie, Y., Liu, B., Huang, Z., Flad, R., Li, Y*. 2024. Emulation and retention: Chariots and horses at the burial site of Majiayuan in northwestern China. Archaeological Research in Asia 39: 100533.

9. Huang, Z., Ma, Q., Zhang, C., Cheng, R., Hou, F., Wu, Y., Luo, F., Li, Y*. 2024. Early evidence of post-mortem fetal extrusion in equids: A case from the Western Zhou period (1045-771 BC) site of Yaoheyuan in northwestern China. Animals 14: 2106.

10. Zhang, C., Wang, Y., Zhang, J., Taylor, W.T.T., Sun, F., Huang, Z., Qiu, R., Hou, F., Flad, R., Li, Y*. 2023. Elite chariots and early horse transport at the Bronze Age burial site of Shijia. Antiquity 97(393): 636–653.

11. Wang, Q., Liu, K., Zhai, L., Liu, N., Sun, H., Li, Y*. 2023. Animal resource exploitation in the northern Guanzhong region during the mid-to-late Holocene: A zooarchaeological case study of the Xitou site. Frontiers in Earth Science 10: 1064818.

Chinese Publications:

1. Li Yue, Huang Zexian, Dang Zhihao, Chen Ting, Cheng Ruoxin. Animal resource exploitation in ancient cities on the middle section of the Silk Road during 10th~14th centuries AD: Evidence from animal remains unearthed from the Dalete ancient city in 2017. Quaternary Sciences, 2022, 42(1).

2. Li Yue, Ma Jian, Zhang Chengrui, Liu Huan, Zong Tianyu, Chen Ting, Huang Zexian, Ren Meng, Xi Tongyuan, Wang Jianxin, Wen Rui. Worked bone production in ancient pastoral societies in China: A case study of the Shirenzigou site in Balikun, Xinjiang. Quaternary Sciences, 2020, 40(2).

3. Li Yue, You Yue, Liu Yiting, Xu Nuo, Wang Jianxin, Ma Jian, Ren Meng, Xi Tongyuan. Study on vertebral abnormalities in horse bones from the Shirenzigou and Xigou sites in Xinjiang. Archaeology, 2016, (1).

4. Li Yue, Chen Honghai, Yuan Jing, Wang Zhen. The horse bones unearthed from Zaoshugounao site in Chunhua County of Shaanxi Province. Journal of Northwest University (Natural Science Edition), 2014, 44(2).

5. Wang Qianwen, Zhai Linlin, Zong Tianyu, Huang Zexian, Li Yue*. A preliminary study of prehistoric subsistence economy in the southern part of Northern Shaanxi: Zooarchaeological evidence from field surveys in the upper Beiluohe River valley. Quaternary Sciences, 2022, 42(6).

6. Zong Tianyu, Guo Xin, Liu Huan, Zhang Xiangyu, Li Yue*. Animal remains reveal the development of subsistence economy from prehistory to Qin-Han periods in the Guanzhong region: Evidence from the Gongbeiya site in Xi’an. Quaternary Sciences, 2021, 41(5).

Awards and Honors:

Research:

· 2023, 2022, Northwest University Research Award

· 2023, Third Prize, First Shaanxi Provincial Outstanding Archaeological Achievements Award

· 2021, First Prize, Outstanding Achievement Award for Humanities and Social Sciences Research in Shaanxi Higher Education Institutions

· 2018, Third Prize, 13th Shaanxi Provincial Outstanding Achievement Award in Philosophy and Social Sciences

Teaching:

· 2024, 2023, Outstanding Master’s Thesis Supervisor, Northwest University

· 2023, First Prize, 5th Shaanxi Provincial College Teachers Teaching Innovation Competition

· 2023, First Prize, 4th Northwest University Classroom Teaching Innovation Competition

· 2018, Second Prize, 1st Shaanxi Provincial College Classroom Teaching Innovation Competition

· 2018, First Prize, Northwest University Campus Competition for the 1st Shaanxi Provincial College Classroom Teaching Innovation Competition

Student Supervision Awards:

· 2024, High-Quality Achievement Award, 8th Shaanxi Provincial Postgraduate Innovation Achievements Exhibition

· 2024, 2022, 2021, National Scholarship for Postgraduate Students

· 2024, 2023, Outstanding Master’s Thesis of Northwest University

Contact:
liyue@nwu.edu.cn