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Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Title: Associate Professor
Fax: 010-68337001
E-mail: lili@ivpp.ac.cn
Academic Qualifications
· 2022 – Dr. rer. nat. in Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Tübingen, Germany
· 2019 – M.S. in Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, USA
· 2017 – M.S. in Computer Science, University of California, Davis, USA
· 2013 – B.S. in Management Information Systems, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Professional Appointments
· 2023 – 2025 Associate Researcher, Interdisciplinary Centre for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal.
· 2022 – 2023 Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
· Application of fracture mechanics to lithic technology analysis
· Quantitative methods for reconstructing hominin knapping behavior
· Experimental archaeology and machine learning
· Digital archaeology and 3D field documentation
2025 Li, L., McPherron, S.P. Exploring the effect of various hammer application variables in flake formation. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2024.0879.
2023 Li, L., Reeves, J., Lin, S. C., Braun, D.R., McPherron, S.P., Did early hominins control their hammer strike angles when making stone tools? Journal of Human Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103427.
2022 Li, L., Lin, S. C., McPherron, S.P., Abdolahzadeh, A., Chan, A., Dogandžić, T, Iovita, R., Leader, G.M., Magnani, M., Rezek, Z., Dibble, H.L. A synthesis of the Dibble et al. controlled experiments into the mechanics of lithic production. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-022-09586-2.
2022 Li, L., Reeves, J.S., Lin, S.C., Tennie, C., McPherron, S.P., Quantifying knapping actions: a method for measuring the angle of blow on flakes. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01626-y.
2021 Li, L., Lin, S. C., Peng, F., Patania, I., Guo, J., Wang, H., & Gao, X., Simulating the impact of ground surface morphology on archaeological orientation patterning. Journal of Archaeological Science, 126, 105310, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105310.