School of Archaeology
Dr Anke Hein
Current Research Activities
- PI for "Excavating Andersson: Unlocking Forgotten Treasures in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (MFEA), Stockholm", with Dr Andrew Womack, Dr Ole Stilborg, and Dr Katherine Brunson
- PI for "Tracing Elusive Women in Chinese Archaeology"
- PI for "The History and Practice of Chinese Archaeology", with Prof. Julia Lovell
- Editor and Co-Creator (with Andrew Womack) of the China Ceramic Petrography Database; https://opencontext.org/projects/2c5addea-41d5-4941-b2bd-672bc1e60448
- Member of PastNet: Past Networks in Space and Time, Research Network, University of Oxford (insert link: https://connectedpast.net/)
- Affiliate of the University of Oxford China Centre
Recent research activities
- 2019-2022 Co-PI for “POTS - Pottery Origins and the Transformation of Societies: Study of the Emergence and Spread of Ceramic across Northeast China.” With Dr Thibaut Devièse, Oxford
- 2017-2019 Survey Coordinator of the Tao River Valley Project; PI: Prof. Rowan Flad, Harvard University
- 2015-2018 PI: “Homogeneity in form, diversity in technique or vice versa? – Ceramic traditions in Neolithic and Bronze Age Northern China”, Fell-Funded (EBD00020Ö) Project in Stockholm and China
- 2013-2017 PI: "Ethnoarchaeological Field Project on Ceramic Production in the Wei River Valley", in Collaboration with Dr Ye Wa (UCLA)
- 2013-2014 PI: "Ethnoarchaeological Field Project on Ethnic Identity and Yi-Han Relations in Zhaojue, Sichuan", in Collaboration with Prof. Zhao Jue (Sichuan University)
Seminar Series
Co-convenor of the World Archaeology Seminar Series
Key words: archives, technologies of making, decolonisation, gender and identity, interaction, materiality, mobility, museums, theories and practice, policy, earlier prehistory, later prehistory, contemporary, early historic, historic, E Asia, SE Asia