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James T. Williams (丁山)，2014年获得美国匹兹堡大学博士学位。他主要研究中国东北和外蒙古地区青铜时代的生活经济。他的研究专长是古代的经济，聚落形态，自然环境和社会的关系。以往研究认为中国北方地区青铜时代生业类型所发生的巨变，但他通过对辽宁的系统区域调查的结果来看，尽管这个区域人口和环境发生了变化，但是经济类型并没有任何变化。目前他正在尝试将这项研究放在不同的自然环境和社会经济背景中加以实验。
James T. Williams received his PhD in 2014 from the University of Pittsburgh. He remains a research associate at the Center for Comparative Archaeology at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on the economics of Bronze Age societies in Mongolia and Northeast China. He studies the relationships between settlement patterning, environment, subsistence economies and social organization. During the Bronze Age, a radical change in subsistence economies has been proposed by a number of scholars. The findings from his regional survey in Zhangwu, Liaoning, suggest that subsistence economies remain more static than had been previously theorized. This economic persistence occurs despite marked demographic and climatic changes. Current research is focused on exploring that concept in a diverse array of environmental and socio-economic contexts.
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