Jiajing Wang

Selected Publications

• Wang, J., Y. Tang, Y. Zheng, L. Jiang, X. Ma, Y. Hou, G. Sun (2025). Early evidence for pig domestication (8,000 cal. BP) in the Lower Yangtze, South China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, no. 24: e2507123122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2507123122

• Wang, J. L. Liu, X. Qin (2024). Reconstructing Late Neolithic animal management practices in North China using microbotanical analysis of dental calculus: A case study of Kangjia. Antiquity. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.43

• Wang, J. (2023) A posthumanist approach to the origins of rice agriculture in southern China. Current Anthropology 64(3). https://doi.org/10.1086/725100

• Wang, J. L. Ng, T. Serrao-Leiva (2023). Self-reliance and pig husbandry in Los Angeles Chinatown (1880-1933): New evidence from dental calculus analysis and historical records. American Antiquity. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.79

• Wang, J., Y. He, Y. Tang, L. Liu, Y. Li (2023). An interplay of dryland and wetland: millet and rice cultivation at the Peiligang site (8000 – 7600 BP) in the middle Yellow River Valley, China. Agronomy 13, no. 8: 2130. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13082130

• Wang, J., J. Zhu, D. Lei, L. Jiang (2022). New evidence for rice harvesting in the early Neolithic Lower Yangtze River, China. PLOS ONE 17(12): e0278200 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278200

• Wang, J. L. Liu (2022). Introduction: alcohol, rituals, and politics in the ancient world. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 65:101397. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2022.101397

• Wang, J., L. Jiang (2021). Intensive acorn processing in the early Holocene of southern China. The Holocene. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836211041732

• Wang, J., R. Friedman, M. Baba (2021). Predynastic beer production, distribution, and consumption at Hierakonpolis, Egypt. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 64:101347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101347

• Wang, J., L. Jiang, H. Sun (2021). Early evidence for beer drinking in a 9000-year-old platform mound in southern China. PLOS ONE 16(8): e0255833. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255833

• Wang, J., X. Zhao, H. Wang, L. Liu (2019). Plant exploitation of the first farmers in Northwest China: Microbotanical evidence from Dadiwan, Quaternary International 520(20): 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.10.019

• Wang, J., L. Liu, A. Georgescu, V. Le, M. Ota, S. Tang, M. Vanderbilt (2017). Identifying ancient beer brewing through starch analysis: a methodology, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 15:150-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.07.016

• Wang, J., L. Liu, T. Ball, L. Yu, Y. Li, F. Xing (2016). Revealing a 5000-y-old beer recipe in China, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(23): 6444–6448. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1601465113