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Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Title: Professor
Fax: 010-68337001
E-mail: peishuwen@ivpp.ac.cn
EDUCATION
--Ph.D., 2003.03, Paleontology and Stratigraphy, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
--M.S., 1998.07, Paleontology and Stratigraphy, China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
--B.S., 1991.07, Coral Field Geology and Exploration, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)
FACULTY POSITIONS
--2013.12~present, Research Professor of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
--2003.01~2013.12, Associate Professor of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
--1998.07~2002.12, Assistant Research Professor of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
--1991.07~1995.08, Geological and Mineral Engineer, Henan Institute of Regional Geological Survey, Bureau of Geology and mineral resources of Henan
FELLOWSHIPS
--Jan.~Apr. 2015, Collaborative Research at the University of Bordeaux, supported by the Caiyuanpei Bi-lateral Collaborative Program organized by the China Scholarship Council (CSC)
--Aug. 2011, Collaborative Research at the National Museum of Kenya, supported by the Bi-lateral Collaborate Program between MST, China and National Research Foundation, South Africa
--Nov. 2010, Nov-Dec. 2011, Collaborative Research at the University of Witwatersrand＆Origins Centre. Supported by the Bi-lateral Collaborative Program between MST, China and National Research Foundation, South Africa
--Aug. 2009~Aug. 2010, Research Scholar of the Stone Age Institute & Indiana University, IN, USA. Supported by the American Council of Learned Societies and Chinese Academy of Sciences
Paleoanthropology, Geoarchaeology, Paleolithic Archaeology, Quaternary Geology. Specialized in the study on the archaeology of human evolution, site formation processes, lithic technology, adaptative strategy, environmental reconstruction, and the difference and formation of human adapted behaviors between west and east of early humans during Pleistocene.
1) Zhi Ye, Shuwen Pei*, Hao Li, Dongdong Ma, Ben Marwick*. 2026. Spherical harmonic analysis of faceted spheroids identifies shaping strategies and standardisation at Qianshangying (North China). Journal of Archaeological Science, 190: 106551. (SCI/SSCI)
2) Jinyue Xu, Dongwei Niu*, Shengrui Zhang, Yujie Guo, Xiaoli Li, Shuwen Pei*. 2026. Climate change and hominin behavioral adaptations during the Marine Isotope Stage 5 to 4 transition: a case study from Donggou site, Nihewan Basin, North China. Quaternary Science Reviews, 373 : 109714. (SCI)
3) Shuwen Pei*, Jingyue Xu, Yuwei Du, Zhi Ye, Shuaijie Geng, Ziyi Liu. 2025. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of human adaptation in the Nihewan Basin of North China during Middle Pleistocene: A case study of Jijiazhuang archaeological site. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 35: 1601~1618. (SCI)
4) Dongdong Ma, Shuwen Pei*, Fei Xie, Zhi Ye, Fagang Wang, Jingyue Xu, Chenglong Deng, Ignacio de la Torre*. 2024. Earliest prepared core technology in Eurasia from Nihewan (China): Implications for early human abilities and dispersals in East Asia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(11): e2313123121. (SCI)
5) Zhi Ye, Shuwen Pei*, Hua Tu*, Yuwei Du, Dongdong Ma, Hao Li, Jingyue Xu, Lan Luo, Zhongping Lai, Granger Darryl, Ignacio de la Torre. 2024. 26Al/10Be burial dating and technological strategies of hominins at the Jijiazhuang Paleolithic site, Nihewan Basin, China: Implications for understanding Middle Pleistocene human adaptations in east Asia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 339: 108837. (SCI)
6) Xin Ding, Shuwen Pei*, Dongdong Ma, Jingyue Xu, Fagang Wang, Fei Xie. 2024. Deciphering site formation processes in lakeshore environments: a case study of early Pleistocene site of Feiliang (Nihewan Basin, China). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 16: 92. (SSCI/SCI)
7) Dongdong Ma, Shuwen Pei*, Fei Xie, Ignacio de la Torre, Xin Ding, Zhi Ye. 2023. Site formation processes at Cenjiawan (Nihewan Basin, North China): a case study on the structure of the Early Pleistocene archaeological record in lakeshore environments. Journal of Quaternary Science, 38(4): 488-504. (SCI)
8) Zhe Xu, Shuwen Pei*, Yaowu Hu, Ignacio de la Torre, Dongdong Ma. 2021. Stable isotope analysis of mammalian enamel from the Early Pleistocene site of Madigou, Nihewan Basin: Implications for reconstructing hominin paleoenvironmental adaptations in North China. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9: 789781. (SCI)
9) Dongdong Ma, Shuwen Pei*, Ignacio de la Torre, Zhe Xu, Hao Li. 2020. Technological adaptations of early humans at the Lower Pleistocene Nihewan Basin, North China: the case of the bipolar technique. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 12: 278. (SCI)
10) Shuwen Pei*, Chenglong Deng*, Ignacio de la Torre, Zhenxiu Jia, Dongdong Ma, Xiaoli Li, Xiaomin Wang. 2019. Magnetostratigraphic and archaeological records at the Early Pleistocene site complex of Madigou (Nihewan Basin): Implications for human adaptations in North China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 530: 176~189. (SCI)
11) Xiujie Wu, Shuwen Pei*, Yanjun Cai*, Haowen Tong, Qiang Li, Zhe Dong, Jinchao Sheng, Zetian Jin, Dongdong Ma, Song Xing, Xiaoli Li, Xing Cheng, Hai Cheng, Ignacio de la Torre, R. Lawrence Edward, Xicheng Gong, Zhisheng An, Erik Trinkaus*, Wu Liu*. 2019. Archaic human remains from Hualongdong, China, and Middle Pleistocene human continuity and variation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116, 9820~9824. (SCI)
12) Zhenxiu Jia, Shuwen Pei*, Alfonso Benito-Calvo, Dongdong Ma, Laura Sanchez-Romero, Qi Wei. 2019. Site formation processes at Donggutuo: a major Early Pleistocene site in the Nihewan basin, North China. Journal of Quaternary Science, 34(8): 621-632. (SCI)
13) Shuwen Pei*, Fei Xie, Chenglong Deng, Zhenxiu Jia, Xiaomin Wang, Ying Guan, Xiaoli Li, Dongdong Ma, Ignacio de la Torre. 2017. Early Pleistocene archaeological occurrences at the Feiliang site, and the archaeology of human origins in the Nihewan Basin, North China. Plos One, 12(11): e0187251. (SCI)
14) Xiaoli Li, Shuwen Pei*, Zhenxiu Jia, Ying Guan, Dongwei Niu, Hong Ao. 2016. Paleoenvironmental conditions at Madigou (MDG), a newly discovered Early Paleolithic site in the Nihewan Basin, North China. Quaternary International, 400: 100~110. (SCI)
15) Dongwei Niu, Shuwen Pei*, Shuangquan Zhang, Zhenyu Zhou, Huimin Wang, Xing Gao. 2016. The Initial Upper Palaeolithic in Northwest China: New evidence of cultural variability and change from Shuidonggou locality 7. Quaternary International, 400: 111~119. (SCI)
16) Shuwen Pei*, Dongwei Niu, Ying Guan, Xiaomei Nian, Mingjie Yi, Ning Ma, Xiaoli Li, Mohamed Sahnouni. 2015. Middle Pleistocene hominin occupation in the Danjiangkou Reservoir Region, Central China: studies of formation processes and stone technology of Maling 2A site. Journal of Archaeological Science, 53: 391~407. (SCI)
17) Shuwen Pei*, Dongwei Niu, Ying Guan, Xiaomei Nian, Kathleen Kuman, Christopher J. Bae, Xing Gao. 2014. The earliest Late Paleolithic in North China: Site formation processes at Shuidonggou Locality 7. Quaternary International, 347: 122~132. (SCI)
18) Shuwen Pei*, Xing Gao, Xianzhu Wu, Xiaoli Li, Christopher J. Bae, 2013. Middle to Late Pleistocene homimin occupation in the Three Gorges region, South China. Quaternary International, 175: 237~252. (SCI)
19) Shuwen Pei*, Xing Gao, Huimin Wang, Kathleen Kuman, Christopher J, Bae, Fuyou Chen, Ying Guan, Xiaoling Zhang, Fei Peng, Xiaoli Li. 2012. The Shuidonggou site complex: new excavations and implications for the earliest Late Paleolithic in North China. Journal of Archaeological Science, 39: 3610~3626. (SCI)
20) Shuwen Pei*, Xing Gao, Fuyou Chen, Xingwu Feng, Robin Dennell. 2010. Lithic assemblage from the Jingshuiwan Paleolithic site of the early Late Pleistocene in the Three Gorges, China. Quaternary International, 211: 66~74. (SCI)
21) Pei Shuwen*, Li Xiaoli, Liu Decheng, Ma Ning, Peng Fei. 2009. Preliminary study on the living environment of hominids at the Donggutuo site, Nihewan Basin. Chinese Science Bulletin, 54(21): 3896~3904. (SCI)
22) Pei Shuwen*, Zhang Jiafu, Gao Xing, Zhou Liping. 2006. Optical dating of the Jingshuiwan Paleolithic site of Three Gorges. Chinese Science Bulletin, 51(11): 1334~1342. (SCI)
23) Pei Shuwen*, Hou, Yamei. 2002. Preliminary Study on Raw Materials Exploitation at Donggutuo Site, Nihewan Basin, North China. Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 2002, (supplement): 53~66.
* Corresponding author
--Principal Investigator, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) grant no. 42371165, “Study on the relationship between technological behavior and environmental adaptation of hominins in the Nihewan Basin during Middle Pleistocene - evidence from Caijiagou site, Yuxian”, 2024-2027.
--Principal Investigator, sub-topic of the National Key R&D Program of China- “Study on the Chronological Framework and Environmental Background of Early Human Occupation in the Nihewan Basin” (Gran No. 2020YFC1521502), 2020-2024.
--Principal Investigator, sub-topic of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) grant no. 41872029, “Study on the relationship between technological behavior and environmental adaptation of early hominins at Jijiazhuang site, Yuxian Basin”, 2019-2022.
--Principal Investigator, the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Gran No. XDB26030201)- “Study on the lithic technology and adapted behaviors adopted by early hominins during Early to Middle Pleistocene in the Nihewan Basin”, 2018-2023.
--Principal Investigator, Basic Scientific Special Program of MST of China (Grant No. 2014FY110300) - “Investigation and study of early hominins site in the Nihewan Basin, North China”, 2014-2018
--Principal Investigator, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) grant no. 41372032, “Study on the relationship between adaptive behavior and environment of early hominins in the Nihewan basin – evidence from Madigou site”, 2014-2017.
--Principal Investigator, NSFC, grant no. 40672119, "Study on the lithic technology and living environment of early hominins at Donggutuo site ", 2007-2009.