标准照/工作照

General information:

Dr. Siran Liu

Associate Professor

30 Xueyuan Road, Beijing, 100083, China

Tel/Fax: +86 10 6233 4901

Email: siran.liu@ustb.edu.cn

Research interests:

My research interests lie in developing and adopting advanced material science and geoscience technologies to investigate marco and micro archaeological remains of ancient craft productions (metallurgy, ceramic-making, etc), reconstructing technologies, and tracing the origin and flow of materials. The technological choices of craftsmen are examined in various social-economic and environmental settings, addressing the relationship between craft production practices and the development of human civilizations. The on-going research projects include: 1) micro-archaeology of Shang bronze production, 2) the origin and flow of metals in the Bronze Age China, 3) silver production in Chinese imperial period, 4) geochemical provenancing of globalized silver circulation in the early modern period, 5) rise of coal-fuel metallurgy and its environmental impact, 6) advanced techniques for determining firing temperature of pyrotechnological remains, 7) ancient refractories in pyrotechnology, experimental archaeometallurgy.

Education:

2005-2009, Peking University, School of Archaeology and Museology, BA Art Conservation, BSc Chemistry

2009-2010, UCL, Institute of Archaeology, MSc, Technology and Analysis of Archaeological Materials

2011-2015, UCL，Institute of Archaeology, PhD, Thesis: Gold and Silver Production in Imperial China: Technological Choices in Their Social-economic and Environmental Settings

Research experiences:

Key projects:

• The feasibility of using Cu isotope to differentiate varied copper minerals and sources used in ancient bronze production, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, PI

• Iron reduction process of lead and silver smelting in pre-modern period, National Natural Science Foundation of China, PI

• Remote Sensing Identification and Modern Health Risks of Ancient Metallurgical Pollution, National Natural Science Foundation of China, co-PI

• History of Metallurgy in China, National Social Science Foundation of China, major participant

• Archaeometallurgical investigation of silver production technology in Tang and Song period, Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation, PI

主要论著：

Selected Publications:

In English

• Liu, S.*, Rehren, Th., Qin, D., Chen, J., Zhou, W., Martinón-Torres, M., Huang, X., Qian, W. 2019. Coal-fuelled crucible lead-silver smelting in 12th-13th century China: A technological innovation in the age of deforestation. Journal of Archaeological Science 104,75-84. SSCI/SCIE/AHCI

• Liu, S. *, Chen, K.L., Rehren, Th., Mei, J.J., Chen, J.L., Liu, Y., Killick, D. 2018. Lead isotope and metal source of Shang Bronzes: A response to Sun et al.’s comments. Archaeometry, 60 (5), 1040-1044. SSCI/SCIE/AHCI

• Liu, S. *, Chen, K.L., Rehren, Th., Mei, J.J., Chen, J.L., Liu, Y., Killick, D. 2018. Did China import metals from Africa in the Bronze Age? Archaeometry, 60 (1), 105-117. SSCI/SCIE/AHCI

• Liu, S.*, Rehren, Th., Chen, J., Xu, C., Venunan, P., Larreina-Garcia, David., Martinón-Torres, M., 2015. Bullion production in imperial China and its significance for sulphide ore smelting world-wide. Journal of Archaeological Science 55, 151-165. SSCI/SCIE/AHCI

• Liu, S., Rehren, Th.*, Pernicka, E., Hausleiter, A. 2015. Copper processing in the oases of northwest Arabia: technology, alloys and provenance. Journal of Archaeological Science 53. 492-503. SSCI/SCIE/AHCI

• Liu, S.*, Wang, K, Cai, Q., Chen, J*. 2013. Microscopic study of Chinese bronze casting moulds from the Eastern Zhou period. Journal of Archaeological Science 40, 2402-2414. SSCI/SCIE/AHCI

In Chinese

• Liu, Siran., Chen, Jianli., Xu, Changqing., Rehren, Thilo. 2018. Archaeometallurgical investigation of silver/lead smelting technology of the Mengshan site, Shanggao county, Jiangxi province, Jianghan Archaeology, 1, 106-117. (in Chinese)

• Liu, Siran., Chen, Jianli., Chong, Jianrong., Lei, Xingshan. 2017. The scientific investigation of bronze artefacts from the Songjia cemetery of Kongtougou site, Zhouyuan, Cultural Relics in South, 2, 86-93. (in Chinese)

• Liu, Siran., Chen, Jianli., Xu, Changqing., Rehren, Thilo. 2016. Archaeometallurgical investigation of the Baojia gold and silver smelting sites, Cultural Relics in South, 1, 122-131. (in Chinese)

• Yan, Bichen., Liu, Siran., Li, Yanxiang., et al. 2018. The slay analysis and smelting technology of the Dongping site at Xichang, Sichuan province. Scientific Study of Cultural Relics in China, 2, 66-75. (in Chinese).

• Zhou, Wenli., Liu, Siran., Chen, Jianli. 2017. Crucible lead smelting at the Weishang site, Tongbai county, Henan province., Cultural Relics in South, 2, 131-140. (in Chinese)

• Zhou, Wenli, Liu, Siran., Liu, Haifeng., Chen, Jianli. 2014. Traditional crucible lead smelting in China, Studies In The History of Natural Sciences, 33(2), 201-215.