ZHANG Xu

Professor

Subject: Human Osteoarchaeology

E-mail:zx@cass.org.cn

Jilin University  PhD In Chinese Anthropology/Archaeological Studies (Jun. 2015)

•2016 Outstanding doctoral dissertation award from Jilin Province

•2015 Outstanding doctoral dissertation award from Jilin University

•2013 Outstanding doctoral dissertation fund from Jilin University

•2013 National Merit Graduate Scholarship

Simon Fraser University  Visiting student in Bioarchaeology (2014)

Inner Mongolia Normal University  BA in Archaeology & Museology (Jun. 2009)

Zhang, Xu, 2022, Study on the Human skeletal remains Unearthed from the Dabao Mountain Cemetery in Inner Mongolia, Cultural Relics Press.

•Zhang, Xu, 2025, A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Population Dynamics in South-Central Inner Mongolia during the Eastern Zhou Period. Social Sciences in China (3):4-21.

•Zhang, Xu and Fan Zhang, 2025, Island ancient genomes reveals dynamic populations interactions in the Northern China. Frontiers in Microbiology (16).

•Zhang, Xu, 2024, Correction of Deformed Craniometric Data of Late Hongshan Culture Inhabitants. Steppe Cultural Relics (4):114-120.

•Zhang, Xu, Minghui Wang, Jiawei Li, Peng Zhan, Zhenyuan Du, 2023, Study on the Cranial Metric Traits of Human skeletal remains from the Dakou Site on Tuoji Island, Shandong. Huaxia Archaeology (6):83-89.

•Zhang, Xu, 2020, Study on Relationship between the Prevalence of Dental Caries and Socioeconomic Factors in Central and Southern Inner Mongolia During the Pre-Qin and Han Dynasties. Agricultural Archaeology (1):7-15.

•Zhang, Xu, Jing Li, Hong Zhu, 2015, Research on the Limb Bones of Ancient Inhabitants from the Dabaoshan Cemetery in Inner Mongolia. Acta Anthropologica Sinica (2): 216-224.

•Zhang, Xu, Hong Zhu, Minghui Wang and Xinhua Wu, 2014, Bioarchaeological Analysis of Bronze Age Populations in Liushui Cemetery using Dental Nonmetric Traits. Acta Anthropologica Sinica (4): 460-470.

•Zhang, Xu and Hong Zhu, 2014, Study on the Effect of the Ancient Inhabitants’ Physical Characteristics of Gansu and Qinghai Area on the Formation of Chinese Nation. Cultural Relics of Central China (1): 25–31.

•Zhang, Xu, 2013, Bioarchaeological Research on Human Remains of Liudingshan Cemeteries in Dunhua, China. Social Science Front (8): 122-124.

•2017 (Zhang, Yajun,  Zhang, Xu  and  Tong, Tao)  Preliminary analysis on the health status of human skeletal remains from ngari region of Tibet, China [Poster presentation] The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology), Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 31- April 4.

•2016 (Zhang Xu) The health and nutritional condition research on the skeletal human remains from Dabaoshan cemetery in Inner Mongolia, China [Poster presentation] The 81st  Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida, U.S., April 6-10.

•2015 (Zhang, Xu) Gained bioarchaeological insight from the skeletal human remains at Dabaoshan, south central Inner Mongolia, China [Oral Presentation]. The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California, U.S., April 15-19.

•2015 (Matthew C. Go, Zhang, Xu) Differing Methodologies in Computing for Smith’s Mean Measure of Divergence between Chinese and Western Literature [Poster Presentation]. The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California, U.S., April 15-19.

•2014 (Zhang, Xu) Left from farmland, right into grassland—The origin of the skeletal human remains from Dabaoshan in south central Inner Mongolia, China [Oral Presentation]. The International symposium on bioarchaeology in East Asia, Changchun, Jilin, China, August 11-13.

•2014 (Zhang, Xu, Zhongzhi Nie, Minghui Wang, Xinhua Wu, Hong Zhu) The origin of the skeletal human remains from Liushui cemetery (about 1000bc) in southwestern Xinjiang, China [Poster Presentation]. The 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas, U.S., April 23-27.

•2014 (Zhang, Xu, Hong Zhu and Dongya Yang) The origin of the skeletal human remains from Dabaoshan site (2300-2200BP) in south central Inner Mongolia, China [Poster Presentation]. The 83rd Annual Meeting of American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, April 7-12.

•2013 (Zhang, Xu) Rethinking about ancient residents’ composition of Xianbei’s cemeteries [Oral Presentation]. Eurasia in the Cenozoic and Stratigraphy, Paleoecology and Culture, Fundamental Problems of Formation and Diversity Paleoenvirinment Paleocultur Eurasia, Paradigm Shift, Irkutsk, Russia, Dec 4-6.

•2012 (Zhang, Xu) Study on the relationship between ancient northwest residents and ancient Huaxia [Oral Presentation]. The 11th National Archaeometry Symposium, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, Nov 27-29.

•2011 (Zhang, Xu) Rethinking about residents’ enthnic composition of the human remains in Pingyang and Wangong cemeteries [Oral Presentation]. The 2011 Archaeological Graduate Students' Forum in Beijing Region. Beijing, China, Nov 12-13.