Jie Shen

Bio

Jie Shen 沈劼 is a Ph.D. student in Chinese Archaeology in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. She mainly focuses on the crafting technology of organic materials in ancient China.

Using use-wear analysis, residue analysis, and experimental archaeology, Jie explores the crafting techniques and functions of osseous objects involved in hunting, fishing, fiber production, and hide working. She also explores how different categories of craft production shaped prehistoric social lives and the progress of human intelligence.

Also, she is interested in the religious and political meaning of animal-related artifacts through conducting comparative studies of East Asian oracle bones and the transmission of belief systems.

Meanwhile, she is the main writer of a WeChat official account “Sixtrowels 六把铲”, which is devoted to sharing study, fieldwork, and application experience with archaeology students. The account has been running for eight years and has published 141 articles, covering the fundamentals of scientific archaeological methods, zooarchaeology atlases and guides, literature search methods in different languages, reading and note-taking skills, doctoral study and teaching experience, and conference information.

Education Experience

MA, Regional Studies – East Asia Program, Harvard University, Chinese Archaeology (2021)
BA in History, Department of History, Wuhan University, Archaeology (2018)

Research interests

[Research area 1] Prehistoric craft production technology
[Research area 2] East Asian archaeology
[Research methods] Use-wear analysis, residue analysis, experimental archaeology, ZooMS.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8587-8925

Contact

jieshen9@stanford.edu