研究兴趣：

  泛欧亚地区早期饮食（foodway）与早期农业系统融合考古人类学理论与科技考古方法；早期陶器手工业、空间与景观考古。

教育经历：

　 圣路易斯华盛顿大学人类学系哲学博士，

职业经历：

　　2023年 12 月起任社会科学院考古研究所助理研究员。

科研项目:

　　主持国家社会科学基金青年项目“粟、黍在亚欧大陆中西部的早期传播及其社会意义”。

　　主持美国国家科学基金博士论文研究项目（NSF-DDRIG）Agricultural Labor Organizations and Management（农业劳动组织与管理）。

田野考古项目：

　　曾参与山东即墨北阡、安徽含山凌家滩、河南淮阳平粮台、江苏金坛三星村、匈牙利亚斯 - 瑙吉孔 - 索尔诺克州 Jaszfenysaru、美国伊利诺伊州 Cahokia 遗址群、秘鲁塔克纳省 Sama 河谷遗址群等的调查或发掘。

主要发表：

　　Sun Y. F., Sun Y. G.*, Liu X.* (2026).  Land tenure and multi-seasonal sequential harvesting revealed by archaeobotanical and isotopic studies at Erdaojingzi, a Bronze Age site in Northeast China. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 71:105665.

　　Sun, Y., Jia, X.*, Reid, R. E., Sun, Y., & Liu, X.* (2025). Millet cultivation strategies and changing agropastoral economies in ancient Chifeng, northeast China, 4000–1800 BP. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 17(7), 145.

　　Ritchey, M. M., Tang, L., Vaiglova, P., Lu, H., Sun, Y., Frachetti, M. D., & Liu, X. (2024). Into thin air: prehistoric intensive crop management in high altitude western Tibet. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, 3, 1398209.

　　Sun, Y. *, Ritchey, M., Zhong, H., Tang, L., Sergusheva, E., Shi, T., Song, J., Li, H., Dong, G., Liu, X*. (2024) Grain size variations of broomcorn and foxtail millet (Panicum miliaceum and Setaria italica) across Eastern Eurasia from the late 4th to the final 1st millennium BCE. Antiquity.

　　Li, H. , Sun, Y. (co-first author), Yang, Y., Cui, Y., Ren, L., Li, H., ..., Dong, G. *, Liu, X*. (2022). Water and soil management strategies and the introduction of wheat and barley to northern China: an isotopic analysis of cultivation on the Loess Plateau.  Antiquity, 1-17.

　　Tian, D., Sun, Y. (co-first author), Ritchey, M., Xi, T., Ren, M., Ma, J., Wang, J., Zhao, Z., Ling, X. *, Liu, X*. (2022) Varying cultivation strategies in eastern Tianshan corresponded to growing pastoral lifeways between 1300 BCE and 300 CE. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10:966366.

　　Ritchey, M. M., Sun, Y., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, G., Shoda, S., Pokharia, A. K., Spate, M., ... & Liu, X*. (2021). The wind that shakes the barley: the role of East Asian cuisines on barley grain size. World Archaeology, 53(2), 287-304. 

　　Wang, X., Zhang, B., Sun, Y., Ingman, T., Eisenmann, S., Lucas, M., Ilgner, J., Wu, G., le Roux, P., Wu, X., Fan, A.*, Roberts, P.*, Stockhammer, P*. (2023) Isotopic and proteomic evidence for communal stability at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Jericho in the Southern Levant. Scientific Reports, 13: 16360.

　　Zhang, B. S., Wu, X. T*., Sun, Y. F., Ritchey, M., Fan, A. C., Zhang, Y. Y., ... & Song, Y. B. (2021). Complex raw materials and the supply system: Mineralogical and geochemical study of the jade artefacts of the Longshan Culture (2400–2000 BCE) from Sujiacun site in coastal Shandong, China. Archaeometry, 63(1), 1-18.