Animals in China East Asia was once home to a wide variety of animal species that have been displaced over the last few thousand years…
Oracle Bones in East Asia Project Photo by Katherine Brunson Oracle bones are a special type of bone artifact used for divination rituals. They are…
Archaeologists normally spend our summers excavating. Due to COVID-19, several Wesleyan students and archaeology faculty members spent this summer digging into data! Audrey Lam (class…
Zooarchaeology and The Tao River Project Professor Brunson conducts fieldwork in China annually in order to investigate past human-animal interactions in East Asia. She collaborates…
Ancient DNA (aDNA) reveals that animal domestication was a complex process in which there was frequent feralization and interbreeding between wild and domestic stocks. Professor…
