Name: JIN Zhengyao
Position:Professor, Head of USTC Archaeometry Laboratory,
Tel/Fax: 86 (0) 551-3602465 (W)
Email: zyjin@ustc.edu.cn
Education:
B.S. 1982,Chemistry;Wuhan University; M.S. 1984,Archaeometry,University of Science and Technology of China; Ph.D. 1988,Religion,Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Professor Jin,s research and publications focused on the Archaeology of Metal Resources, Isotopicarchaeology, Ancient Technology, and Relationship between Science and Religion in Tranditional Chinese Culture.
Experience
Assistant Research Professor(1985), Associate Professor(1990), Professor(2000), Research Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Visiting Scientist, Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA, July 1991-July 1992; November 1993-November 1994
Visiting Scientist, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 26 April-9 May 1996; 17 February-17 April 1998; 12 March-10 September 1999
Visiting Scientist, Tokyo Research Institute of Culture Properties, Japan, August 1992-August 1993; 21-29 March 1995; 10 November-28 December 1995; 17 June-14 September 1996; 1 June-29 August 1997; 17 May-14 August 1998; 27 January-27 March 2000
Awards and Foundations:
National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant 41073004, On the exploitation and utilization of mineral resources in Bronze Age Dian and development of local metal civilization, 2011-2013
National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant 40273013, On the highly radiogenic lead in Shang bronzes, participator, 2003-2006
Chinese Ministry of Personnel Grant, Database of Lead Isotopic Studies on Xia, Shang and Zhou Bronzes, 2002-2004
J. Paul Getty Trust Paired Fellows for Research in Conservation and the History of Art and Archaeology, CASVA, National Gallery of Art, USA. Stylistic and Scientific Studies on Early/Middle Shang Bronzes: Metallurgy, Material Sources and Cultural Character, July 2002-December 2002
Japanese Ministry of Education Foundation for International Scholarly Studies, Scientific Research on Ancient Bronze Culture of East Asia, with Y. Hirao, 17 June-14 September 1996; 1 June-30 August 1997; 17 May-14 August 1998; 27 January-27 March 2000
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Grant for Academic Exchange CUHK182/96H, 26 April-9 May 1996; 17 February-17 April 1998; 12 March-10 September 1999
National Social Science Foundation of China 96BZJ 003, A Study on Taoist Alchemy, 1996-1999
Tokyo Research Institute of Cultural Properties Scholarly Studies Grant, 21-29 March 1995; 10 November-28 December 1995
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Studies Grant: Elemental Analyses, Metallographic and Corrosion Product Studies in Excavated Chinese Bronzes, with W. T. Chase, November 1993-November 1994
Post-Doctoral Studies Program of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Sciences JSPS/EP3/91034, Scientific Research on the Shang Bronzes, with H. Mabuchi of Tokyo National Research Institute of Culture Properties, August 1992-August 1993
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Studies Grant: Lead Isotopic Study on Excavated Chinese Bronzes, with W. T. Chase of Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, July 1991-July 1992
Lectures and Conference Presentations
Dpartment of Anthropology, Harvard University. November 5,2010. Archaeological Smelted Copper and Reconstruction of an Ancient Metal History in the Bronze Age Yunnan
International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History, Boston University. November 2,2010. Copper, Tin, and Lead: The Archaeology of Metal Resources in Bronze Age Southwest China
Freer Gallery of Arts, Washington D.C., Fifth Forbes Symposium: Studies of Ancient Asian Metallurgy using Scientific Methods, invited speaker, 26-30 October, 2010
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge,8 October, andUCL Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 4 October, 2010. Recent discoveries of metallurgy in Bronze Age Yunnan
Institute for Near Eastern Archaeology, Free University of Berlin, 13th international conference (Crossing Borders in Southeast Asian Archaeology) of the European Association of the Southeast Asian Archaeologists, 26-30 September, 2010. Are you drunk? : images of toper in bronze artworks from Shizhaishan and Dongson
Chicago, Illinois, USA. 10th International Conference on X-Ray Microscopy, 15-20 August, 2010. Elemental mapping of ancient glass eye-Bead using SRXRF.(with others)
Selected Publications
GE Wei, LIU Li, CHEN Xincan, JIN Zhengyao. 2011. Can noodles be made of millet? : An experimental investigation of noodle manufacture together with starch grain analyses,Archaeometry,53(1)
J.H. Tian,Z.Y. Jin,R.L. Li, L.F. Yan,J.Y.Cui. 2010. An elemental and lead isotopical studies on bronze helmets from royal tomb No. 1004 in Yinruins,Archaeometry,52(6)
GE Wei, LIU Li, JIN Zhengyao. 2010. Morphological analyses on starch granules of five grass species and their signficance for archaeology. Quaternary Sciences, 30(2)
WANG Changming and JIN Zhengyao 2010. Copper isotope analyses applied to archaeological studies: a review. Sciences of Conservation and Archaeology 22(1)
JIN Zhengyao 2008. Lead Isotopicarchaeology in China. University of Science and Technology of China Press
