At the invitation of professor Dong Guanghui from the College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University and the Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems, Ministry of Education, China, associate professor Chen Guoke will make an academic report. Welcome!

Title: Important archaeological discoveries in Gansu.

Time: on Monday, December 30, 2019, at 9:30 a.m.

Site: at Lecture room 502, Qilian Tang, Lanzhou University

Lecturer profile

Chen Guoke is an associate professor from Gansu Antique Archaeology Institute, graduated from Sichuan University and University of Science and Technology Beijing. Currently, he is deputy director of the Gansu Antique Archaeology Institute, a member of the Chinese Archaeological Society, and an editor of Archaeology and Cultural Relics. His research interests include prehistoric archaeology, Silk Road archaeology and metallurgical archaeology in northwest China. He presided over the completion of more than 10 archaeological excavations, including the Zhangye Xicheng Yi ruins, Subei Mamane Mountain jade mine ruin, Tianzhu Tang Dynasty Tuyuhun tomb. Xicheng Yi ruin was awarded the third prize for field archaeology by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage in 2011 and was selected as one of the six new archaeological discoveries in 2013. Additionally, Mamane Mountain jade mine ruin was selected into the six new archaeological discoveries in 2014. He has published more than 20 papers and newsletters in Cultural Relics, Archaeology, Archaeology and Cultural Relics, etc, which will promote the exploration of the occurrence, development, and dissemination of metallurgical technology in northwest China and the source of early tremolite and jade materials and the "Road of Jade" in China.