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  1. Intra- and interregional interactions contributed to the emergence of herding in the late prehistoric Upper Yellow River region (2500–1500 BCE)

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, April 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  2. PROVENANCE STUDIES IN ARCHAEOLOGY – MORE REFLECTIVE OF ‘QUALITY CONTROL’ WITHIN A RESOURCESCAPE THAN GEOCHEMISTRY?

    Article • Oxford Journal of Archaeology, December 2023, Wiley

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  3. A VIEW FROM THE COUNTRYSIDE: RADIOCARBON CHRONOLOGY FOR ZAOLINHETAN OF THE PRE-ZHOU CULTURE IN EARLY DYNASTIC CHINA

    Article • Radiocarbon, December 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  4. Bronze alloying recipes at Anyang during the Shang Dynasty

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  5. Earliest systematic coal exploitation for fuel extended to ~3600 B.P.

    Article • Science Advances, July 2023, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  6. Predicting bronze casting recipes in ancient China: ternary copper-lead–tin alloys and the “unit sum problem”

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, April 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  7. The six recipes of Zhou: a new perspective on Jin (金) and Xi (锡)

    Article • Antiquity, August 2022, Antiquity Publications

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  8. Chemical Studies of Ming and Qing (1368–1911 CE) coinage and the later history of brass in China

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, June 2022, Elsevier

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  9. ‘Nothing new under the sun’: Rethinking recycling in the past– Editorial

    Article • Archaeometry, May 2022, Wiley

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  10. Asking different questions: highly radiogenic lead, mixing and recycling of metal and social status in the Chinese Bronze Age

    Article • Mineralogical Magazine, April 2022, Mineralogical Society

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  11. Iron production along the Great Wall Belt of the Han Empire: A metallurgical study of an iron smelting site in the Northern Shaanxi, China

    Article • Archaeometry, March 2022, Wiley

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  12. New scientific analyses reveal mixing of copper sources in the early Iron Age metal production at Ili, western China

    Article • Archaeometry, March 2022, Wiley

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  13. Rare colour in medieval China: Case study of yellow pigments on tomb mural paintings at Xi'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang dynasty

    Article • Archaeometry, January 2022, Wiley

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  14. Art historical and archaeometric analyses of the ‘animal style’ gold and silver ornaments (fourth–third centuries bce ) found in north‐west China

    Article • Archaeometry, November 2021, Wiley

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  15. Chemical studies of Chinese coinage II: from Qin to Yuan (221 BCE–1368 CE)

    Article • Heritage Science, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  16. A new perspective towards the debate on highly radiogenic lead in Chinese archaeometallurgy

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  17. Introduction to the Special Issue: Correlating changes for environmental, technological and societal transformation in prehistoric eastern Asia

    Article • The Holocene, November 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  18. CHRONOLOGY OF THE TIANSHANBEILU CEMETERY IN XINJIANG, NORTHWESTERN CHINA

    Article • Radiocarbon, October 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  19. Global Circulation of Silver between Ming‐Qing China and the Americas: Combining Historical Texts and Scientific Analyses

    Article • Archaeometry, October 2020, Wiley

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  20. Synthesis of stable isotopic data for human bone collagen: A study of the broad dietary patterns across ancient China

    Article • The Holocene, July 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  21. Spatial–Temporal Variation of Cropping Patterns in Relation to Climate Change in Neolithic China

    Article • Atmosphere, June 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  22. The Integration of Farmers and Nomads: Archaeological Evidence for the Human Subsistence Strategy in Northwestern China during the Han Dynasty

    Article • Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition, June 2020, Wiley

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  23. Metallurgy at the Crossroads: New Analyses of Copper‐based Objects at Tianshanbeilu, Eastern Xinjiang, China

    Article • Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition, June 2020, Wiley

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  24. Every Cloud has a Silver Lining: Using Silver Concentration to Identify the Number of Sources of Lead used in Shang Dynasty Bronzes

    Article • Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition, June 2020, Wiley

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  25. Lead isotopic analyses of copper ores in the Early Bronze Age central Hexi Corridor, north‐west China

    Article • Archaeometry, May 2020, Wiley

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  26. HUMAN RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE LATE PREHISTORIC WESTERN LOESS PLATEAU, NORTHWEST CHINA

    Article • Radiocarbon, May 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  27. Panlongcheng, Zhengzhou and the Movement of Metal in Early Bronze Age China

    Article • Journal of World Prehistory, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  28. Beyond ritual bronzes: identifying multiple sources of highly radiogenic lead across Chinese history

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  29. A New Approach to the Chronology of Caves 268/272/275 in the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes: Combining Radiocarbon Dates and Archaeological Information within a Bayesian Statistical Framework

    Article • Radiocarbon, April 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  30. Some Recently Rediscovered Analyses of Chinese Bronzes from Oxford

    Article • Archaeometry, January 2018, Wiley

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  31. Revisiting lead isotope data in Shang and Western Zhou bronzes

    Article • Antiquity, December 2017, Antiquity Publications

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  32. Bronze Age metal circulation in China – ERRATUM

    Article • Antiquity, August 2017, Antiquity Publications

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  33. Bronze Age metal circulation in China

    Article • Antiquity, June 2017, Antiquity Publications

    RUILIANG Liu, Dr RUILIANG Liu

  34. Lead Isotope Analyses Revealed the Key Role of Chang'an in the Mirror Production and Distribution Network During the Han Dynasty

    Article • Archaeometry, January 2017, Wiley

    Professor ZhengYao Jin, Dr RUILIANG Liu

  35. Chemical analysis of ancient Chinese copper-based objects: Past, present and future

    Article • Archaeological Research in Asia, July 2015, Elsevier

    Dr RUILIANG Liu

  36. Form and flow: the ‘karmic cycle’ of copper

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, April 2015, Elsevier

    Dr RUILIANG Liu