Andrew Womack

Andrew is a postdoctoral scholar in Chinese Archaeology at the Stanford Archaeology Center and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. Prior to arriving at Stanford, he received his PhD from Yale University in 2017 and was a Visiting Faculty Lecturer at McGill University in Montreal from 2017-19. As Associate Director of the Tao River Archaeological Project (TRAP), an international collaboration between Chinese and North American institutions, he coordinates research on the intersection of technological, social, and climatic change at late Neolithic and early Bronze Age (3200–1500BC) sites in northwestern China. Using a mixture of geophysical survey, excavation, and ceramic analysis he is mapping the development of interaction networks that allowed for some of the earliest transfers of goods and technologies between China and Central Asia along the proto Silk Road. 

To view his recent publications on these topics, please see his academia.edu page.