Qian Wang, PhD

Biography

Education and Training

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center Baylor College of Dentistry, Dallas, TX (2003-2006)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Anatomical Sciences University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (1999- 2002)
• Recipient of French Government grant for training in paleoanthropology and human biology. Institute de Paléontologie Humaine, Paris (Sept 1997- Jan 1998)
• Ph.D. in Physical Anthropology. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (1995-1998)
• M.Sc. in Paleontology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China (1992-1995)
• B. Sc. in Paleontology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China (1988-1992

Career History

• Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University College of Dentistry, Dallas, TX. Since September 2021.
• Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University College of Dentistry, Dallas, TX. January 2015 – August 2021.
• Associate Professor of Anatomy, Division of Basic Medical Sciences, Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, GA. July 2013 - December 2014.
• Assistant Professor of Anatomy, Division of Basic Medical Sciences, Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, GA. January 2007 - June 2013.
• Assistant to the Curator (part time), Fossil Dome, School of Anatomical Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2002.
• Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 1998-1999.

Teaching Interests

Gross Anatomy, Neuroanatomy, Skeletal Pathology, Functional Head & Neck Anatomy

Honors and Awards 

• 2019 TAMU College of Dentistry Teacher of the Year
• 2020 TAMU College of Dentistry Basic Science Faculty Research Award
• 2020 Distinguished Achievement Award (Teaching), College Level, Texas A&M Association of Former Students
• 2024 TAMU College of Dentistry Premier Performance Award

Research Interests

I have been trained in the fields of paleoanthropology, biological anthropology, and bone biology. My research has been focused on adaptation, function, disease, and evolution. My earlier work examined the comparative morphology of craniofacial skeletons in Mid-Pleistocene human fossils. During postdoctoral training at Texas A&M College of Dentistry, I was involved in a number of studies on the elastic properties of craniofacial bone as well as the biology and biomechanics of craniofacial sutures. My current research focuses on the skeletal biology of rhesus macaques and the bioarcheology of prehistoric skeletons, in addition to early Homo erectus in Europe. My research at Mercer University School of Medicine was supported by an NSF grant (2007-2013). Currently, I am funded by two large-scale NSF grants (PI on both: 2019-2023 & 2021-2025). My additional funding includes a grant from the NIH (co-I, 2020-2025) and from the Japan Society of the Promotion of Science (International Collaborator, 2019-2024). My most recent NSF grant (2021-2025) focuses on the earliest record of the plague, now a project of special importance in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. I am also organizing an international team to reconstruct the origin and spread of intentional cranial modification. Most importantly, I initiated and currently lead a long-term international collaborative project titled the Global Record of Health Project – Asia Module (GHHP Asia) to systematically documents the health/disease status of prehistoric and historic human skeletal remains from during the past 10,000 years in Asia and to assess how human health status varies with environment, economic mode, climate change, social disturbances, lifestyle, etc.

My research has had major impact in several areas. [1] My recent research on the skulls of castrated rhesus monkeys which died of natural causes hypothesized the relationship between low levels of testosterone and poor oral health for the first time. Compared to the jaws of intact monkeys the same age, castrated monkeys (lacking testosterone) had more severe signs of periodontal disease. Evidence of this pattern was indicated by bone loss around the teeth. These findings demonstrate that hormonal changes influence men as well as women, and that low testosterone negatively affects oral health in men. The application directly benefits human oral health care; it has been widely reported in the media, including dentistry-oriented websites. Dentists have started to apply my research to better manage the oral health of their male patients. [2] I have been working with remains of Holocene human populations since 2015. My research team published recent discovery of the earliest confirmed case of intentional cranial modification from over 12,000 years ago in northern China. The article changed current views on the origins and spread of this human cultural practice. This discovery has led to wide news coverage by international news media and science news outlets alike, including Science News, BBC Mundo, Xinhua News, Smithsonian Magazine, and Live Science. Because of the achievement of this article and “ its exemplary scientific quality”, the Editor-in-Chief for the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (the most prestigious journal in physical anthropology) decided to start an “Editor’s Choice” page on the journal website featuring this article as the inaugural paper in August 2019. I am planning further study on the impact of intentional cranial modification on oral health, mastication, and brain development. [3] I was a member of an international collaborative project for dietary biomechanics in human evolution. The objective was to reveal both adaptation and incongruity of early human forms in the masticatory system. The impact of this research lies in its implications for dental study and practice. First, the facial skeleton is very plastic and configuration of the facial skeleton is often related to special patterns of masticatory activities and behavior; secondly, the temporomandibular joint is a weak link biomechanically. Too much force recruited to an area or placement of the jaw in an abnormal position may put unduly high stress on the temporomandibular joint, resulting in temporomandibular joint compromise

Research Grants 

1. NSF BCS: Paleodemographic and Ancient DNA Study of a Potential Epidemic Site. $309,983. 2021-2026. PI: Wang. Co-PI: Sharon DeWitte.
2. NIH-NIDCR R01: miR-23-27-24 cluster coupled osteo/angiogenesis for complex craniofacial bone regeneration. $1,781,589. 2021-2026. PI: Xianghong Luan. Role of Wang: Co-Investigator.
3. NSF RIDIR Collaborative Research: A Skeletal Study to Determine Environmental and Familial Effects on Health and Life Expectancy. $ 410,213. 2019-2025. PI: Wang.
4. TAMU T3 Initiative (Triads for Transformation): The Global History of Health Project - Oral health in Eastern Asia during the past 10,000 years. $32,000. 2018-2020. PI: Wang; Co-PIs: Sheela Athreya and Lori Wright.
5. NSF Collaborative Research: Integrative analysis of hominid feeding biomechanics - Morphology and biomechanics of craniofacial sutures. $ 137,122. 2007-2013. PI: Wang.

Recent Publications

1. 1. George Francis, Qian Wang. 2025. History of Health at Cayo Santiago – An investigation of Environmental and Genetic Influences on the skeletal remains of the introduced Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta) colony. American Journal of Primatology. 87: 87:e23722. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23722
   2. Sen You, Meng Ren, Li Sun, Anqi Wang, Long Wang, Quanchao Zhang, Qian Wang. Red Princess of the Silk Road - The First-and-only Known Case of Cinnabar-stained Teeth in Antiquity from the Iron Age Western Regions (202BCE - 8CE). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. Accepted.
   3. Martin Q. Zhao, Cooper T. Novak, Rui Gong, Mehakpreet Kaur, Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg, Terry B. Kensler, George Francis, Elizabeth Maldonado, Luci A.P. Kohn, Qian Wang. 2025.CSViewer for Analysts: I. Building an Integrative Database and Knowledge Model for the Cayo Santiago Rhesus Macaque Colony and its Derived Skeletal Collections. American Journal of Primatology. Accepted.
   4. Martin Q. Zhao, Rui Gong, Mehakpreet Kaur, Soumik Kundu, George Francis, Terry B. Kensler, Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg, Elizabeth Maldonado, Luci A.P. Kohn, Qian Wang. 2025. CSViewer for Analysts: II. Analytic Tools and Visualization towards Founder Lineages, Social Groups and Reproduction Dynamics of the Cayo Santiago Rhesus Macaque Colony. American Journal of Primatology.
   5. Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg, Julianna Watson, Liya Samuel, Emma Showalter, Finn Lerner, Emilie Dixon, Terry B. Kensler, George Francis, Elizabeth Maldonado, Luci A.P. Kohn, Martin Q. Zhao, Qian Wang. 2025. Revisiting linear enamel hypoplasia in Cayo Santiago rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): How a stress marker relates to environment and maternal lineage in a rare rhesus colony with known life history. American Journal of Primatology. 87:e23692. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23692
   6. Martin Q. Zhao, Cooper Novak, Ethan R. Widener, Raj Patel, Rui Gong, George Francis, Qian Wang. 2025. Enhancing Data Analytics and Visualization Support in CSViewer for Analysts - Version 1.1: Access to an Integrative Database and Knowledge Model of Cayo Santiago Rhesus Macaques. Journal of Data Science and Intelligent Systems. POL. DOI:10.47852/bonviewJDSIS42023383
   7. Qian Wang, George Francis. 2025. Coming to the Caribbean: Eighty-five years of Rhesus macaques at Cayo Santiago - A rare non-human primate model for the studies of adaptation, diseases, genetics, natural disasters and resilience. American Journal of Primatology. 87:e23659. DOI: 1002/ajp.23659
   8. Mariana Vásquez-Álvarez, Qian Wang, Uriel Zapata. 2025. The use of platelet concentrates in the reconstruction of the alveolar cleft defect: A systematic review and meta-analysis. The Cleft Palate Craniofacial Journal. POL. DOI: 10.1177/10556656231222076.
   9. George Francis, Qian Wang. 2024. Pterion variation in the skulls of rhesus macaques from Cayo Santiago: Inheritance, development and pathology. Anatomical Record. 307(9):3139-3151.  DOI: 10.1002/ar.25417
   10. Ruiqi Zou, Haiyang Xing, Xiaofan Sun, Shuxin Kong, Lixin Wang, Zhe Zhang, Quanchao Zhang, Qian Wang. 2024. Patterns of entheseal changes and other activity markers in an ancient population from Neolithic to Bronze Age (8000–2300BP) at the Houtaomuga site, Northeast China with special references to climate changes, subsistence strategies, sex-based labor divisions, and regional variations. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 34:e333533. 23 pages. DOI: 10.1002/10.1002/oa.3335
   11. Yawei Zhou, Yanmei Liu, Fei Yan, Qian Wang. 2024. Surviving punishment by body reduction in a hierarchical society: A bioarcheological study of two punitive amputation cases in Eastern Zhou Dynasty (771–256 BCE) with references to the penal and medical systems of ancient China. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.16:55. DOI:10.1007/s12520-024-01961-2
   12. Yawei Zhou, Huiying Liu, Xiangyu Zhang, Yanpeng Wang, Qian Wang. 2024. A Rare Case of Both Bone Forearm Fracture with a 90° Angulation of the Radius from the North Shenjiaqiao Cemetery of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty Warring States Period, Xi’an, China (475-221 BCE). Asian Journal of Paleopathology. 6: 7-15. DOI: 10.32247/ajp2024.6.03.
   13. Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg, Terry B. Kensler, George Francis, Elizabeth Maldonado, Luci A.P. Kohn, Martin Q. Zhao, Qian Wang. 2024. Talon Cusp Expression in Cayo Santiago Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta). American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 183:172-177. DOI:10.1002/ajpa.24855
   14. Sun X, Zhang Q, Wang P, Wang A, Guo Y, Wang Q. 2023. A Shaman's Surgical Art? A Neurosurgical and Osteoarchaeological Study of a Therapeutic Trepanation from the Yanghai Cemetery in Turpan Basin, China. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 15, 155. DOI:10.1007/s12520-023-01856-8
   15. Zhang W, Wang A, Zou Z, Jakob T, Zhu Y, Zhang Q, Wang Q. 2023. Added Hardship to Nomadic Life: Leg Impairment in an Early Iron Age Individual from Northwestern China (ca. 375 BCE) with Special References to Lower Limb Splint Use. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 15, 150. DOL:10.1007/s12520-023-01852-y
   16. Gao G, Zhang Q, Sun X, Zhang W, Zhang Q, Wang Q. 2023. The Largest Headhunting Event in Prehistoric Asia: Evidence of Mass Decapitation at the 4100-Year-Old Neolithic Age Honghe Site, Heilongjiang, China. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 15, 144. DOI:10.1007/s12520-023-01845-x
   17. Francis G, Wang Q. 2023. Coming to the Caribbean – Acclimation of Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) at Cayo Santiago. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 181:271-295.
   18. Simon M, Zhang Q, Sikora M, Willmott H, DeWitte S, Wang Q. In search of earliest records of Plague endemic: Past research and new endeavors. Asian Journal of Paleopathology. 5:21-29.
   19. Wang Q, Menegaz RA. 2023. Skull: Function – New Directions. In: Larsen CS, editor. Companion to Biological Anthropology, 2nd edition. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. p. 559-571.
   20. Zhao MQ, Widener ER, Francis G, Wang Q. Building a Knowledge Model of Cayo Santiago Rhesus Macaques: Engaging Undergraduate Students in Developing Graphical User Interfaces for an NSF Funded Research Project. In: Daimi, K., Al Sadoon, A. (eds) Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Innovations in Computing Research (ICR’23). ICR 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 721. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35308-6 29
   21. Byron C, Reed D, Iriarte-Diaz J, Wang Q, Strait D, Laird M, Ross C. 2023. Sagittal suture strain in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus and Cebus) during feeding. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 180: 633-654.
   22. Li H, Song Q, Huo J, Hao S, Zhou C, Zhang H, Wang B, Xiao X, Wang Q. 2023. Delayed Closure of the Anterior Fontanelle in Iron Age Children from Zaghunluq. Anthropologischer Anzeiger. Anthropol Anz. 80(4):471-480.
   23. Sun X, You S, Wang J, Zhang Q, Wang Q. 2023. A Commoner With Advanced Surgery: A Bioarcheological Study of a Trepanation Case With Special Reference to the Medical Care System During the Western Zhou Dynasty of China (1045 – 771 BCE). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Volume 47, 103830. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.103830.
   24. Yang S, Sun Y, Dong H, Sun X, Zhang Q, Wang Q. 2023. Trepanation during the Late Neolithic Age from the Mapai Cemetery in the Gan-Qing Region, Northwestern China – A Bioarcheological -and Experimental study. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 33:70-82.
   25. Guatelli-Steinberg D, Guerrieri T, Kensler T, Maldonado E, Francis G, Kohn L, Zhao M, Wang Q. 2022. Male Cayo Santiago rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) tend to have greater molar wear than females at comparable ages: exploring two possible reasons why. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 178:437-447.
   26. Ledogar JA, Senck A, Villmoare BA, Smith AL, Weber GW, Richmond BG, Dechow PC, Ross CF, Grosse IR, Wright BW, Wang Q, Byron C, Benazzi S, Carlson KJ, Carlson KB, Pryor McIntosh LC, van Castere A, Strait DS. 2022. Mechanical compensation in the evolution of the early hominin feeding apparatus. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 289 289: 20220711. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0711.
   27. Ribot F, Bartual MG, Altamirano JA, Wang Q. 2022. The canine fossa and the evolution of the midface in humans. Acta Anthropologica Sinica. 41:193-217. https://doi.org/10.16359/j.cnki.cn11-1963/q.2020.0016.
   28. Li H, Xiao X, Huang Y, Zhang H, Lv E, Wang Q. 2022. First Case of Boring-and-Cutting Trepanation in Ancient China. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 14, 11. DOI: 10.1007/s12520-021-01486-y.
   29. Sen You, Mocen Li, Xiaogang Hou, Pengzhen Li,Yang Sun, Quanchao Zhang, Qian Wang. 2022. First case of juvenile bone malignant neoplasm in ancient China: A skeleton from the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534 CE). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 32 (1):182-191.
   30. Han T, Zhang W, Xie Y, Zhou X, Zhu H, Zhang Q, Wang Q. 2022. Sex-Based Differences in Age-Related Changes of the Vertebral Column from a Bronze Age Urban Population in Ancient Anthropological Review. 85(1):107-139.
   31. Zhang W, Wang A, Zou Z, Jakob T, Chen P, Alifujiang N, Zhang Q, Wang Q. 2022. A Nomadic Individual with Knee Ankylosis from Jiaerkenjiaga, Xinjiang, China (6th-5th centuries BCE). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 32: 493-508.
   32. Zhou Y, Fu R, Zheng L, Yan F, Wang Q. 2021. Social Stratification during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty of China (771-476 BCE) - Mortuary and Stable Isotopic Analyses of the Shangshihe Cemetery. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 31: 1001-1029.
   33. Zhang Q, Hou X, Yang S, Ruan S,  Wang A, Li P, Sun X,  Zhu H,  Zhang Q, Wang Q. 2021. Eternal Love Locked in an Embrace and Sealed with a Ring: A Xianbei Couple’s Joint Burial in North Wei Era China (386 - 534 CE). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 31:966-974.
   34. Yang S, Mao R, Zhang Q, Wang Q. 2021. A Bronze Age Mandibular Anomaly from Gansu, China. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 31:475- 484. DOI:10.1002/oa.2965.
   35. Zou Z, Wang Z, Wang C, Zhang Z, Sun X, Yang S, Zhu C, Zhu H, Zhang Q, Wang Q. 2021. Hiding a leaf in the forest: Uncovering a 1300-year-old homicide case in a 2000-year-old cemetery. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 13, 200 (2021). DOI:10.1007/s12520-021-01459-1
   36. Li P, Yang S, Qi Y, Zhu H, Zhang Q, Wang Q. 2021. Handprints on Bricks from the Jin-Yuan Period (1127-1368 CE) Inner Mongolia, China. 2021. Journal of Archaeological Sciences: Reports. 37 (2021), 102983. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102983.
   37. Zhang W, Zhang Q, McSweeney K, Han T, Man X, Yang S, Wang L, Zhu H, Zhang Q, Wang Q. 2021.Violence in the Early Iron Age Eurasian Steppe: Cranial Trauma in Three Turpan Basin Populations from Xinjiang, China. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 175:81-94.
   38. Sun X, Man X, Liao X, Yang J, Cao J, Zhu H, Zhang Q, Wang Q. 2021. Footbinding and Non-Footbinding Han Chinese Women in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912 CE) Xifengbu Cemetery: A Skeletal and Mortuary Analysis. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 13(1), 18. DOI:10.1007/s12520-020-01241-9.
   39. Molli VLP, Jain A, Fu J, Wu Y, Feng JQ, Wang Q. 2020. Osteons and Osteocytes in Belanger’s Tree Shrews (Tupaia belangeri chinensis) – A Qualitative Image Comparative Study. Acta Anthropologica Sinica. 39 (4): 592-603.
   40. Wang Q, Zhang Q. 2020. Global History of Health Project Asia Module - A Big Dada Research on Health, Disease, and Lifestyle in Ancient Asia Populations. Acta Anthropologica Sinica. 39(4): 727-732.
   41. Ribot F, Bartual MG, Gracia-Nos E, Enciso A, Nevgloski A, Wang Q. 2020. Another interpretation about of Homo antecessor. Journal of Anthropological Sciences. 98 (e): 1-10. DOI:10.4436/jass.98016.
   42. Zapata U, Wang Q. 2020. Biomechanical differences between inner and outer cortical layers of the primate parietal bone. PLOS ONE 15(3): e0229244.

Book Edited

1. Wang Q (Editor). 2012. Bones, Genetics, and Behavior of Rhesus macaques: Macaca mulatta of Cayo Santiago and Beyond. New York: Springer. 308 pages.

Global History of Health Asia Module (GHHP-Asia)

Wang initiated GHHP – Asia in 2018. The ‘Global History of Health Project’ (GHHP), started by Richard Steckel and colleagues, is a platform to systematically document a series of selected health and disease parameters of human skeletal remains of recent millennia in the context of environmental and socioeconomic changes. This unique project provides an unprecedented look of recent human history to gauge the quality of life and human adaptability in challenging living conditions. Inspired by the GHHP-West Hemisphere and Europe modules, the GHHP- Asia was initiated in 2018 to extend this project to Asia, an important theater for the rise of many first civilizations.  Human burials have been found throughout the Asian continent from the Neolithic Age to Bronze and Iron Ages and onwards. Most importantly, the majority of burials are associated with archaeological evidence of environmental settings and socioeconomic modes.  The project will unlock rich yet mostly untapped information from large skeletal collections in China, Mongolia, Japan, South Korea, East Russia, India, and Southeast Asia and beyond, and establish a contexualized database recording the history of human pathology, focusing on oral pathology and joint diseases, in Asia during the past 10,000 years. The inclusion of the Asia story in GHHP will not only enrich the first hand skeletal and oral health status over generations in recent human history in an evolutionary sense, but also expand existing databases for global and local health agency authorities on policy making for contemporary populations with different economic-social status, ranging from pre-agriculture to modernization.  

1. https://economics.osu.edu/global-history-health-project/asia-module
2. https://duracuk-lb01-production.terminalfour.net/departments/academic/archaeology/research/archaeology-research-projects/the-backbone-of-europe/

Online Links

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=sXUj16IAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

ORCID: Qian Wang     https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3303-1183

Media Coverage

1. Negative impact of long-term low testosterone on oral health (2016) featured in: Science Daily, News-Medical, Biomedox, Hubbiz - New York State Dental Association, etc.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160330124527.htm

2. Punitive leg amputation in antiquity (2024) featured in: LiveScience, Archaeology Magazine, Southern China Morning Post, etc.

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/2200-year-old-skeletons-with-legs-chopped-off-may-have-received-cruel-punishment-in-ancient-china

https://archaeology.org/news/2024/06/11/240520-china-punitive-amputation/

https://www.sciencealert.com/2500-year-old-skeletons-with-matching-injuries-reveal-grisly-punishments-in-chinas-past

https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3262356/chinas-2500-year-old-skeletons-legs-chopped-may-be-elites-who-received-cruel-punishment-ancient

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/china-amputation-punishment-0020687

https://today.tamu.edu/2024/05/16/remains-of-two-men-from-central-china-shed-light-on-ancient-practice-of-punitive-amputation/

3.  “Advanced therapeutic trepanation/brain surgery by Shaman doctors” (2023) features in: New Scientists, The US Sun, etc.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2401141-skull-shows-man-survived-surgery-to-ease-brain-pressure-2700-years-ago

4.  “Largest neolithic headhunting event” (2023) featured in: Live Science, the US Sun, Archaeology Magazine, South China Morning Post, etc.

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/headless-skeletons-in-china-represent-the-largest-known-headhunting-massacre-from-neolithic-asia

5.  Earliest evidence of intentional cranial modification (2019) featured in: Science News, BBC Mundo, Fox News, Archaeology Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, Xinhua News, Live Science, Discovery Science Channel - Ancient Unexplained Files (2/21/2021), etc.

https://www.foxnews.com/science/12000-years-ago-a-boy-had-his-skull-squashed-into-a-cone-shape-its-the-oldest-evidence-of-such-head-shaping

https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-48912147

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-chinese-graves-reveal-evidence-early-skull-reshaping-180972570/

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/east-asians-may-have-been-reshaping-their-skulls-12000-years-ago?tgt=nr

https://today.tamu.edu/2019/07/16/texas-am-dentistry-professors-discovery-points-to-evidence-of-skull-shaping/

Discovery Science Channel  - Ancient Unexplained Files (2/21/2021)  

6.  Footbinding (2021) featured in: Sciences et Avenir – Paris and South China Morning Post.

https://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/archeo-paleo/archeologie/le-cimetiere-aux-lotus-d-or-mille-ans-de-pieds-bandes-en-chine_152622  (Sciences et Avenir - Paris)  

7.  1,500-year-old joint burials in loving embrace with a ring on ring finger (2021) featured in: Archaeology Magazine, Live Science, GEO, Xinhua Net, Smithsonian Magazine, South China Morning Post, etc.

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/439-2109/digs/9919-digs-china-couple-burial (Archaeology Magazine. September/October 2021)

https://www.livescience.com/buried-lovers-embrace-china.html (Live Science, August 23, 2021)

https://today.tamu.edu/2021/09/09/an-eternal-embrace/

8.  “Uncovering a 1,300-year-old murder case” (2021) featured in: Archaeology Magazine, Current World Archaeology, Live Science, Daily Mail, the Sun, South China Morning Post, etc.

https://www.livescience.com/ancient-skeleton-murder-victim-china

https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/environment/article/3153399/1300-years-later-scientists-paint-picture-murder

https://today.tamu.edu/2021/12/01/texas-am-professor-uncovers-1300-year-old-murder-case/

9. “Masticatory properties and chewing capacities of Australopithecus and early Homo” (2009, 2016) featured in: ScienceMag.org, Science Alert, The Independent, Pulse headlines, Archaeology, etc.