Dr. Wei Chu
Private lecturer
University of Leiden
Van Steenis
Einsteinweg 2
Room number A1.11
E-Mail: wchu
uni-koeln.de
ORCID: 0000-0002-4595-388X
Current projects
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DFG-project CRC 806 “Our way to Europe”: B1 “The Eastern Trajectory: Last Glacial Palaeogeography and Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean and of the Balkan Peninsula”
Research Interests
- European Palaeolithic
- Experimental archaeology
- Dispersal of anatomically modern humans in the Middle East and to Europe
- Geoarchaeology and taphonomic processes
- Quantitative methods
CV
Education:
2005 B.A. in Cultural Anthropology; Rutgers University, USA
2008 M.A. in Archaeology; Leiden University, NL
2013 PhD in Archaeology; University of Reading, UK. Area of Specialization: experimental archaeology
Professional Experience:
2007 Internship at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA
Since 2012 Editor, Lithics Journal
Since 2014 Research Associate, University of Cologne, Germany
Monographs and contributions
In Press
W. Chu, Travelers without road or destination: a study of Aurignacian life in the Carpathian Basin, submitted.
J. Nett, W. Chu, (Hrsg.) (in press) Geoarchaeological and palaeoenvironmental research in European loess. Journal of Quaternary Science.
2020
W. Chu, J. Richter, Aurignacian Cultural Unit. In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer International Publishing (Cham 2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_3441-1
2016
W. Chu, Fluvial processes in the Pleistocene of Northern Europe (Oxford 2016).
2014
W. Chu, Th. Hauck, D. Mihailović, Crvenka-At – preliminary results from a lowland Aurignacian site in the middle Danube catchment. In: Mihailović, D. (Hrsg.), Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Research in the Central Balkans (Belgrad 2014) 69–75.
Article
Im Druck
W. Chu, A. Doboş, S. McLin, So many caves, so little time: a preliminary report from a western Romanian karst survey. The Journal of the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (Im Druck).
C. Zeeden, U. Hambach, N. Klasen, P. Fischer, P. Schulte, J. Nett, D. Veres, I. Obreht, W. Chu, M. Papadopoulou, F. Viehberg, F. Schäbitz, M. B. Gavrilov,S. B. Marković, A. Vött, F. Lehmkuhl, Sedimentology of a Late Quaternary lacustrine record from the south-eastern Carpathian Basin. Journal of Quaternary Science (Im Druck). https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3297
2021
J. Nett, W. Chu, P. Fischer, U. Hambach, N. Klasen, C. Zeeden, I. Obreht, L. Obrocki, S. Pötter, M. B. Gavrilov, A. Vött, D. Mihailović, S. B. Marković, F. Lehmkuhl, The Early Upper Paleolithic site Crvenka-At, Serbia–the first Aurignacian lowland occupation site in the southern Carpathian Basin. Frontiers in Earth Science. 9, 56, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.599986
A. Pascual-Garrido, K. Almeida-Warren, Archaeology of the perishable: ecological constraints and cultural variants in chimpanzee termite fishing. Current Anthropology, 62, 3, 2021, 333–362. https://doi.org/10.1086/713766
2020
W. Chu, Flüsse und Funde. Archäologie in Deutschland, 2, 2020.
W. Chu, R. Hosfield, Lithic artifact assemblage transport and microwear modification in a fluvial setting: a radio frequency identification tag experiment. Geoarchaeology 35, 2020, 591–608. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21788
W. Chu, L. Kaminská, N. Klasen, C. Zeeden, G. Lengyel, The Chronostratigraphy of the Aurignacian in the Northern Carpathian Basin based on new chronometric/archeological data from Seňa I (Eastern Slovakia). Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 3, 2020, 77–96. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-019-00044-2
2019
W. Chu, S. Pötter, A. Doboș, Th. Albert, N. Klasen, A. Ciornei, J. Bösken, P. Schulte, Geoarchaeology and geochronology of the Upper Palaeolithic site of Temerești Dealu Vinii, Banat, Romania: site formation processes and human activity of an open-air locality. Quartär 66, 2019, 111–134. https://doi.org/10.7485/QU66_5
A. Doboş, W. Chu, Between the woods and the water: the early Upper Palaeolithic from the Romanian karst. Analele Banatului 26, 2019, 17–34.
2018
W. Chu, The Danube Corridor Hypothesis and the Carpathian Basin: geological, environmental and archaeological approaches to characterizing Aurignacian dynamics. Journal of World Prehistory 31, 2018, 117–178. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-018-9115-1
W. Chu, G. Lengyel, C. Zeeden, A. Péntek, L. Kaminská, Z. Mester, Early Upper Paleolithic surface collections from loess-like sediments in the northern Carpathian Basin. Quaternary International 485, 2018, 167–182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.05.017
S. B. Marković, P. Sümegi, T. Stevens, R. J. Schaetzl, I. Obreht, W. Chu, B. Buggle, M. Zech, R. Zech, C. Zeeden, M. B. Gavrilov, Z. Perić, Z. Svirčev, F. Lehmkuhl, The Crvenka loess-paleosol sequence: a record of continuous grassland domination in the southern Carpathian Basin during the Late Pleistocene Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 509, 2018, 33–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.03.019
2017
W. Chu, Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia: human evolution and its context, edited by Harvati, K. and M. Roksandic. PaleoAnthropology, 2017, 102–103.
2016
W. Chu, C. Zeeden, S. Petrescu, The early Upper Paleolithic of the Banat and recent research at the Paleolithic site of Tincova. Banatica 26, 2016, 51–72.
Th. Hauck, J. Rethemeyer, P. Rentzel, P. Schulte, R. Fulop, A. Heinze, Á. Ringer, J. Richter, W. Chu, F. Lehmkuhl, O. Vogels, Neandertals or early modern humans? A revised 14C chronology and geoarchaeological study of the Szeletian sequence in Szeleta Cave (Hungary). Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 46, 2016, 271–290.
W. Chu, D. Mihailović, I. Pantović, C. Zeeden, Th. Hauck, F. Lehmkuhl, Archaeological excavations at the site of At (Vršac, Serbia). Antiquity 90, 352, 2016. http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/chu352
G. Lengyel, W. Chu, Long thin blade production and Late Gravettian hunter-gatherer mobility in eastern Central Europe. Quaternary International 406, 2016, 166–173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.01.020
2015
W. Chu, C. Thompson, R. Hosfield, Micro-abrasion of flint artifacts by mobile sediments: a taphonomic approach. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 7, 2015, 3–11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-013-0157-0
2014
W. Chu, Dynamics of learning in Neanderthals and modern humans, edited by Akazawa, T. Nishiaki, Y and A. Kenichi. Lithic Technology 39, 2014, 190–192. https://doi.org/10.1179/0197726114Z.00000000045
2013
J. De Reu, J. Bourgeois, M. Bats, A. Zwertvaegher, V. Gelorini, P. De Smedt, W. Chu, M. Antrop, P. De Maeyer, P. Finke, M. Van Meirvenne, J. Verniers, P. Crombé, Application of the topographic position index to heterogeneous landscapes. Geomorphology 186, 2013, 39–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.12.015
2012
W. Chu, Pushing the envelope. experimental directions in the archaeology of stone tools. Lithics 32, 2012, 74–76.
2010
W. Chu, Experimental investigations into fluvial modification processes of the earlier Palaeolithic record. Lithics 31, 2010, 155-156.
2009
W. Chu, A functional approach to Paleolithic open-air habitation structures. World Archaeology 41, 2009, 348–362. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438240903112179
Projects
- DFG-project CRC 806 “Our way to Europe”: B1 “The Eastern Trajectory: Last Glacial Palaeogeography and Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean and of the Balkan Peninsula”