Chuenyan Ng
Assistant Professor of Archaeology
Email wuchr@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Archaeobotany, Eurasian steppe, Nomadism.
Educational Background
2012-2019 Ph.D. Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, USA
2007-2011 MA, Department of Archaeology, The Graduate School at the Chinese Academy of Social Science, China
2004-2007 BA, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR
Prior Employment
2020-2023 Postdoctoral researcher School of Sociology & Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University
Profile
Chuenyan Ng holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in Anthropology. His research interests focused on the subsistence economy of late prehistoric societies in the Eurasian steppes. His dissertation, entitled “Subsistence Economies among Bronze Age Steppe Communities: An Archaeobotanical Approach to the Study of Multi-Resources Pastoralism in the Southeastern Ural Mountains,” provides new evidence suggesting multi-resource pastoralism without agriculture practice as the dominant subsistence economy among Bronze Age communities in that region. The long-standing subsistence model for the Bronze Age communities in the Southeastern Urals region is a sedentary agro-pastoral strategy with the dominant use of cattle, horses, and sheep/goats.This dissertation collected data from archaeobotanical samples in the Southeastern Urals exhibiting a long-standing hunting gathering-fishing tradition before the emergence of Bronze Age settlements. In a manner, multi-resource pastoralism continues this tradition by combining different complementary subsistence systems. In China, he has been working with colleagues to study the subsistence economy of prehistoric South China. Since 2020, he has been working annually with the Institute of Archaeology in the Chinese Academy of Sciences on the study of Austronesian Archaeology.
Publications
Chuenyan, Ng, Sm., Ahn.
2009 Whether the Paddy Rice Unearthered in Sorori is the Most ancient Domesticated Rice(小鲁里出土稻米是否是最古老的驯化稻), Relics From South, 3:75-80.（In Chinese）
Chuenyan, Ng, H., Hui, Zz. Zhou
2010 Discussion of the Prehistoric Agricultural of Jianghan Plain Based on the Floatation Result of YejiamiaoSite in Xiao Gan(从孝感叶家庙遗址浮选结果谈江汉平原史前农业), Relics From South, 4: 65-70. (In Chinese)
Chechushkov, I., A. Yakimov, O. Bachura, C. Ng, E. Goncharova
2018 Social Organization of the Sintashta-Petrovka Groups of the Late Bronze Age and A Cause for Origin of
Social Elites(Based on Materials of the Settlement of Kamenny Ambar), In Late Prehistory of Eurasia: Social Models and Cult Practices, Edited by I.V. Manzura, pp.149-166. Stratum Plus, Saint-Petersburg. (In Russian)
Petrov, N., N.Batania, A. Plaksina, L, Markova, V, Noskevich, C, Ng
2018 Left Bank Settlement (Sintashta II), on Materials of the Complex of Research 2015-1017. Archeaological Monument 13:113-139. (In Russian)
Polina, A., I. Alaeva, S. Sadykov, C. Ng, M. Ankushev, E. Zazovskaya, A.Rassadnikov
2021 “Steppe Corridors” of Alakul Paastoralists: Isotope and Paleobotanical Studies at the Chebarkul III Settlement, Ural Historical Herald 3：18-29. (In Russian)
Chuenyan, Ng, Y., Da
2022 Discussion on the risk management model of the prehistoric city sites in the middle Yangtze valley(试论
长江中游史前城址生业经济的风险管理模式), Relics From South, 6: 71-75. (In Chinese)
Huang Chao,Wu Chuanren,Wang Mingzhong
2022 The First Discovery of Prehistoric Rice Remains in Hainan Island and Its Significance（海南岛史前稻作遗存的首次发现及意义）,Agricultural Archaeology, 6. ( In Chinese)
Yu Chong, Hao Zhao; Chuenyan Ng(corresponding author), Songmei Hu, Miaomiao Yang, Xiaoning Guo,
2022 A passion for beef: Post-domestication changes in cattle body size in China from the Late Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.949860
Chuenyan Ng, Weiyan Wei; Chong Yu; Junelei Zheng Chuenyan Ng
2022 Herding pattern among Bronze Age steppe communities: An ethnographic approach to mapping pasture in the Southeastern Ural Mountains, Russia. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.984725