Jiun-Yu LIU

Staff Members

Jiun-Yu LIU

Project Research Fellow
Department of Globalization and Humanity

Research Specialization	Archaeology
Individual Research Projects	The Transmission and Localization of Tobacco Culture among Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples: Historical, Archaeological, and Ethnological Perspectives

Academic Qualifications

2021 PhD, Anthropology, University of Washington
2014 MA, Anthropology, University of Washington, USA
2011 MA, Anthropology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Research Specialization

Archaeology

Research Keywords

Cultural interactions, migration, exchange and trade, Metal Age, archaeometallurgy, foodways, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, South China Sea maritime region, cultural heritage management, Indigenous cultural revitalization and development, museum practices.

Current Research Topics

Peopling in East and Southeast Asia: an archaeological and ethnological investigation

Selected Publications

On-going Side Research Project

2025	The Transmission and Localization of Tobacco Culture among Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples: Historical, Archaeological, and Ethnological Perspectives)” Grants received from the Japan Tabacco Academic Studies Center

Museum experience

2023	Curator of the Mini Exhibit: Kuroshio Odyssey-Maritime, Memories, and Landscapes at the Burke Museum, Seattle, Washington.

Publication

2023	Intertwined maritime Silk Road and Austronesian routes: A Taiwanese archaeological perspective. Journal of Global History 18(3). Cambridge University Press: 384-400
2021	Genomic insights into the formation of human populations in East Asia. Nature 591(7850): 413-419. (co-author with Wang, Chuan-Chao, et al.)
2021	We are in the Midway – Three Ancient Ports and Port Settlements Studies in Taiwan. In Port Cities, Exchanges, and Porcelain-the Archaeological Research in Southeast Asia. Committee of the Festschrift for Seiichi Kikuchi and Takashi Sakai, ed. Tokyo, Japan: Yuzankaku Publishing
2019	A Preliminary Analysis on the Ferrous Pyrotechnology of the Blihun Hanben Site and its Comparison to the Shihsanhang Iron Technology in Metal Age Taiwan. Journal of Japanese Society of Southeast Asia Archaeology 39.