Biographical Profile
Wang Xiaoran, born in 1993. She received her Ph.D. in Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), Germany in 2023. She served as a Guesting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) in Leipzig, Germany from 2021 to 2023. In January 2024, she joined the Department of World Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (IA-CASS) as an Assistant Research Fellow, then later transferred to the Key Laboratory of Archaeological Sciences and Cultural Heritage, CASS. Her current research focus on integrating scientific analyses of biological materials and archaeology. She is interested in isotope study and bio-archaeology, prehistoric archaeology of West Asia (the Near East), prehistoric archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean and Aegean regions, Early and Neolithic archaeology of China, as well as archaeological theory and history of archaeology.
Major Work
Wang Xiaoran, Agricultural Choices and Settlement Development in the Fertile Crescent of West Asia, China Social Sciences JournalDecember 19, 2025 · Page A08
Xiaoran Wang, Eirini Skourtanioti, Marion Benz, Julia Gresky, Jana Ilgner, Mary Lucas, Michael Morsch, Joris Peters, Nadja Pöllath, Harald Ringbauer, Petrus le Roux, Michael Schultz, Johannes Krause, Patrick Roberts, Philipp W. Stockhammer. 2023. Isotopic and DNA analyses reveal multiscale PPNB mobility and migration across Southeastern Anatolia and the Southern Levant, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). 2023, 120(4): e2210611120. (Impact factor: 12.779)
Xiaoran Wang, Baoshuai Zhang, Yufeng Sun, Tara Ingman, Stefanie Eisenmann, Mary Lucas, Jana Ilgner, Gao Wu, Petrus le Roux, Xiaotong Wu, Patrick Roberts, Anchuan Fan, Philipp W. Stockhammer. Isotope and proteomics evidence for ancient mobility at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Jericho in the Southern Levant. Scientific Reports 13, 16360. (Impact factor: 4.996)
Xiaoran Wang, Xingxiang Zhang, AnchuanFan, Adamantios Sampson, Xiaotong Wu, Jun Gao, Fang Huang, Zhengyao Jin. 2018. Strontium isotopic evidence for the provenance of occupants and subsistence of Sarakenos Cave in prehistoric Greece. Quaternary International, 508: 13-22. (Impact factor: 2.13)
Xingxiang Zhang, Xiaoran Wang, Xiaotong Wu, Herong Zhang, Fang Huang. 2018. Investigating Human Migration and Horse-Trading in Yelang Through Strontium Isotope Analysis of Skeletons from Zhougshui Sites, South-West China. Archaeometry 60(02): 157-170. (Impact factor: 1.915)
Ge Yu, Zhengyao Jin, Lifang Chen, Fen Wang, Xiaoran Wang, Xiaotong Wu, Anchuan Fan, Qiongxia Xia, 2018. Analyzing the earlieast Chinese proto-procelain: Study on the materials from Liaotianjianshan kiln sites, Dehua County, Fujian Province (China). Ceramic International, 44(17): 21648-21655. (Impact factor: 5.532)
