Gyoung-Ah Lee
Assistant Professor
Phone: (541) 346-4442
Email: galee@uoregon.edu
Gyoung-Ah Lee (B.A. 1992, Seoul National University; M.S. 1997, Ph.D. 2003, University of Toronto) became an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon in fall, 2007. She has been conducting field research in northern China (Henan and Shannxi provinces), southern Korea, northern Vietnam (Hanoi), and Indonesia (Maluku province). Her research explores the human and environment interactions since the Late Pleistocene, the transitions from foraging to agricultural economies, cultural and biological processes of domestication of East Asian crops (soybean, rice), and the role of agriculture in ancient political economies. Her selective co-authored publications include "Plants and People from the Early Neolithic to Shang periods in North China" in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences of the USA (2007); “Evidence for the beginning of rice domestication in China: a response to Fuller et al.” in Holocene (2007); "Contextual analysis of plant remains at the Erlitou-period Huizui site, Henan, China" in Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (2007); “Late Neolithic plant remains from northern China: preliminary results from Liangchengzhen, Shandong” in Current Anthropology (2005); “Identifying fossil wild rice (Zizania) pollen from Cootes Paradise, Ontario: a new approach using scanning electron microscopy” in Journal of Archaeological Science (2004); and “Agricultural Origins in the Korean Peninsula’ in Antiquity (2003).
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