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Yi Wei is an academic researcher from American Museum of Natural History. The author has contributed to research in topics: Bead & Cave. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 3 publications. Previous affiliations of Yi Wei include Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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A technological and morphological study of Late Paleolithic ostrich eggshell beads from Shuidonggou, North China
Yi Wei,Yi Wei,Francesco d'Errico,Francesco d'Errico,Marian Vanhaeren,Fei Peng,Fuyou Chen,Xing Gao +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed analysis of ostrich eggshell (OES) beads derived mainly from Cultural Layer 2 (CL2) of Locality 2 at the Shuidonggou site (SDG2) in North China, which is dated to ca. 31 ka cal BP, is reported.
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Zhoukoudian Upper Cave personal ornaments and ochre: Rediscovery and reevaluation.
Francesco d'Errico,Francesco d'Errico,Africa Pitarch Martí,Africa Pitarch Martí,Yi Wei,Yi Wei,Xing Gao,Marian Vanhaeren,Luc Doyon,Luc Doyon +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors re-evaluated the information provided by Pei Wen Chung on Upper Cave personal ornaments lost during World War II and analyzed casts of 17 of them, along with two unpublished objects displayed at the Zhoukoudian Site Museum and three original perforated teeth rediscovered at the Shangai Site Museum.
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The earliest evidence of coloured ornaments in China: The ochred ostrich eggshell beads from Shuidonggou Locality 2
Africa Pitarch Martí,Africa Pitarch Martí,Yi Wei,Yi Wei,Xing Gao,Fuyou Chen,Francesco d'Errico,Francesco d'Errico +7 more
TL;DR: It is argued that such a hitherto unknown consistency in bead production and decoration may reflect technological, morphological, and pigment coating standardisation at the individual level, standardisation in technology associated with variation in morphology and pigment at the group level, and substantial differences in these three domains at inter-group level.