Lin Kuei-chen

Lin Kuei-chen is a Taiwanese archaeologist.

Biography Kuei-chen Lin studied Chinese literature and language as an undergraduate at the National Central University from 1994-1999, and then Computer Science as a postgraduate at the University of Southern California from 2001-2002. She worked as a software engineer for Microtek in 2003. Lin's research concentrates on craft production and its relationships to social complexity during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age in southwestern China. She worked on the Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey Report (2005-2010). She also conducted archaeological survey concerning the settlement patterns of the Bunun people in Lakulaku River basin, Taiwan.

Lin is the regional representative for Australasia in the Society for East Asian Archaeology. Lin was elected president of the Archaeological Society of Taiwan, constituting the 4th Board of Directors and Supervisors for 2023-2025. Lin has also made an important contribution to the study of 20th-century female Chinese archaeologists.

Select publications Journal article Lin, Kuei-chen, “On craft production and the settlement pattern of the Jinsha site cluster on the Chengdu Plain.” Asian Perspectives 58.2(2019):366-400. (https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2019.0020). Lee, Cheng-Yi, Kuei-Chen Lin*, Zhiqing Zhou, Jian Chen, Xiangyu Liu, Haibing Yuan, Pei-Ling Wang.“Reconstructing subsistence at the Yingpanshan and Gaoshan sites in Sichuan province, China: Insights from isotope analysis on bone samples and charred crop remains.” Archaeometry 62.1(2020):172-186. (https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12509). Cheng-Yi Lee, Kuei-Chen Lin*, Jian Chen, Andrea Czermak. “Dietary history of two human individuals at the Yingpanshan site, Sichuan Province, revealed by carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of serial samples of dentinal collagen.” International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 30.4(2020): 565–574. (https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2871) . Lin, Kuei-chen, Cheng-Yi Lee, Pei-Ling Wang. “A multi-isotope analysis on human and pig tooth enamel from prehistoric Sichuan, China, and its archaeological implications.” Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14(8): Article 145(2022). (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01576-5). Lin, Kuei-chen, Cheng-Yi Lee, Yu Itahashi, Zhiqing Zhou, Jian Chen, Xiangyu Liu, Minoru Yoneda. “Reconstruction of Diets Based on the Δ15N Values of Individual Amino Acids at Three Sites in Sichuan, China.”Archaeometry 65(4)(2023): 908-923. (https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12848). Wang, Li-Ying, Kuei-chen Lin*, and Zhiqing Zhou. 2024. “Preliminary Insights into the Use of Pottery and Culinary Practices at Guijiabao Site in Southwest China.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 57 (2024): 104598. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104598) Book chapter Lin, Kuei-chen. 2023. “Archaeology of Community: Changing Settlement Patterns from the Yingpanshan to the Shi'erqiao Period in Ancient Sichuan, China.” In Ritual and Economy in East Asia: Archaeological Perspectives Festschrift in Honor of Lothar Von Falkenhausen's 60th Birthday - Ideas, Debates, and Perspectives''', pp. 261–281, edited by Anke Hein, Rowan Flad, and Bryan K. Miller. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. (https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.4718114.20) Hein, Anke, Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, Kuei-chen Lin*, Wa Ye, Mingyu Teng. 2023. “Female Scholars and their Contributions to Chinese Archaeology.” In Women in Archaeology: Intersectionalities in Practice Worldwide, pp. 559–590, edited by Sandra L. López Varela. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27650-7_28) Book editor Flad, Rowan, Joshua Wright, Kuei-chen Lin*, Zhiqing Zhou, and Zhanghua Jiang, eds. Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey (CPAS): Results from 2005-2010''. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. (Forthcoming).

Awards 2023 Academia Sinica Early Career Investigator Research Achievement Award 2020-2021 Senior Research Fulbright Grant, Foundation for Scholarly Exchange