Mei Jianjun

Mei Jianjun (梅建军) is an archaeo-metallurgist. He is currently Director of the Needham Research Institute, Fellow of Churchill College, and Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,^[1] University of Cambridge. He is also President of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine.^[2]

Publications

• Mei, J.; Wang, P.; Chen, K.; Wang, L.; Wang, Y.; Liu, Y. (2015). "Archaeometallurgical studies in China: Some recent developments and challenging issues". Journal of Archaeological Science. 56: 221. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2015.02.026. 
• (with Xu Jianwei, Chen Kunlong et al.), "Recent Research on Early Bronze Metallurgy in Northwest China", in Paul Jett (ed.), Scientific Research on Ancient Asian Metallurgy. Washington: Freer Gallery of Arts, 2012, pp. 37–46.
• (with Thilo Rehren) eds, Metallurgy and Civilisation: Eurasia and Beyond. London: Archetype Publications, 2009.
• (with Kunlong Chen and Wei Cao), "Scientific Examination of Shang-Dynasty Bronzes from Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, China" in Journal of Archaeological Science, 36(9), 2009: 1881-1891.
• "Early Metallurgy and Socio-Cultural Complexity: Archaeological Discoveries in Northwest China", in Bryan K. Hanks and Katheryn M.Linduff (eds.), Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 215–32.
• (with Kunlong Chen, Thilo Rehren, et al.), "Special Alloys from Remote Frontiers: Scientific Study of the Shang Bronzes from Hanzhong, Southwest Shaanxi", Journal of Archaeological Science, 36(10), 2009: 2108-2118.
• "The Material Culture of the Iron Age Peoples in Xinjiang, Northwest China", in Joan Aruz and Ann Farkas (eds), The Golden Deer of Eurasia. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006, pp. 132–145.
• (with Thilo Rehren), "Copper Smelting from Xinjiang, Northwest China, Part I: Kangcun village, Kuche County, c. 18th century AD", Historical Metallurgy, 39(2), 2005: 96-105.
• "Metallurgy in Bronze Age Xinjiang and its Cultural Context", in Katheryn M. Linduff (ed.), Metallurgy in Eastern Eurasia from the Urals to the Yellow River. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2004, pp. 173–88.
• "Qijia and Seima-Turbino: the Question of Early Contacts between Northwest China and the Eurasian Steppe". Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, 75 (2003): 31-54.
• "Cultural interaction between China and Central Asia during the Bronze Age. Proceedings of the British Academy, 121 (2003): 1-39.
• (with Colin Shell), "The Iron Age Cultures in Xinjiang and their Steppe Connections", in Katie Boyle et al. (eds.), Ancient Interactions: East and West in Eurasia. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2002, pp. 213–234.
• Copper and Bronze Metallurgy in Late Prehistoric Xinjiang: Its Cultural Context and Relationship with Neighbouring Regions. BAR International Series 865. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2000.

References

External links

• Mei Jianjun's profile at the Needham Research Institute