中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所研究员，博士生导师。2008年博士毕业于中国科学技术大学。目前已在Nature　Communications、National　Science　Review、Archaeological　and　Anthropological　Sciences、Journal　of　Archaeological　Science、中国科学、人类学学报等国内外期刊发表研究论文50余篇，研究成果为央视新闻、新华社、人民网、中新社、科技日报和AAAS等国内外媒体报道。已获国家自然科学基金青年基金1项、面上项目2项、国家社科基金重大项目子课题1项。作为团队骨干成员，参与国家重点研发计划，获得北京市科学技术奖1次，并入选2018年中国科学院青年创新促进会，现任中国科学技术史学会科技考古专业委员会副秘书长，《人类学学报》编委。

以微体植物化石分析（植硅体分析，淀粉粒分析）为依托，探讨早期农业活动以及农业传播和古环境关系研究；开展石器、牙结石、粪化石等植硅体与淀粉粒分析，探索人与动物的食物结构和古环境变化；开展植硅体特性机理研究及其在考古中应用。

1. Wu Y,Ge Y,Hu H,Stidham T A,Li Z,Bailleul A M;Zhou Z 2023. Intra-gastric phytoliths provide evidence for folivory in basal avialans of the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota. Nature Communications [J], 14: 4558.
2. Wu Y,Tao D,Wu X,Liu W;Cai Y 2022. Diet of the earliest modern humans in East Asia. Frontiers in Plant Science [J], 13: 989308.
3. Wu Y,Xie G,Mao L,Zhao Z;Belmaker M 2020. Phytolith evidence for human-plant subsistence in Yahuai Cave (Guangxi, South China) over the past 30000 years. Science China Earth Science [J]. 63: 1745-1757.
4. Wu Y,Li Z,Stidham T A;Foong S Y 2023. Phytolith evidence reveals the origin of angiosperm leaf eating habits among ancient Cretaceous birds. The Innovation [J], 4.
5. Wang J,Chen X,Zhang G,Zhang G;Wu Y 2022. The history of agriculture in the mountainous areas of the lower Yangtze River since the late Neolithic. Frontiers of Earth Science [J], 16: 809-818.
6. Qiu Z,Jiang L,Wang C,Hill D V;Wu Y 2019. New evidence for rice cultivation from the Early Neolithic Hehuashan site. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences [J], 11: 1259-1272.
7. Wu Y,You H-L;Li X-Q 2018. Dinosaur-associated Poaceae epidermis and phytoliths from the Early Cretaceous of China. National Science Review [J], 5: 721-727.
8. Wu Y,Deng T,Hu Y,Ma J,Zhou X,Mao L,Zhang H,Ye J;Wang S-Q 2018. A grazing Gomphotherium in Middle Miocene Central Asia, 10 million years prior to the origin of the Elephantidae. Scientific Reports [J], 8: 7640.
9. Wu Y,Guo X,Wang W,Chen X,Zhao Z,Xia X;Yang Y 2017. Red pigments and Boraginaceae leaves in mortuary ritual of late Neolithic China: A case study of Shengedaliang site. Microscopy Research and Technique [J], 80: 231-238.
10. Wu Y,Mao L,Wang C,Zhang J;Zhao Z 2016. Phytolith evidence suggests early domesticated rice since 5600 cal a BP on Hainan Island of South China. Quaternary international [J], 426: 120-125.
11. Wu Y,Jiang L,Zheng Y,Wang C;Zhao Z 2014. Morphological trend analysis of rice phytolith during the early Neolithic in the Lower Yangtze. Journal of archaeological science [J], 49: 326-331.
12. Wu Y,Yang Y,Xiao T,Gu Z,Hill D V;Wang C 2014. Characterization of silica distribution in rice husk using Synchrotron Radiation µCT and its implications for archaeological interpretation. Microscopy Research and Technique [J], 77: 785-789.
13. Wu Y,Yang Y,Wang H;Wang C 2014. The effects of chemical composition and distribution on the preservation of phytolith morphology. Applied Physics A [J], 114: 503-507.
14. Wu Y,Wang C;Hill D V 2012. The transformation of phytolith morphology as the result of their exposure to high temperature. Microscopy Research and Technique [J], 75: 852-855.
15. Wu Y;Wang C 2011. EDF phytolith analysis from Heying site, southeast China, Shang‐Zhou dynasties. Microscopy Research and Technique [J], 74: 1062-1068.
16. Wu Y;Wang C 2009. Extended depth of focus image for phytolith analysis. Journal of archaeological science [J], 36: 2253-2257.
17. Tao D,Wu Y,Guo Z,Hill D V;Wang C 2011. Starch grain analysis for groundstone tools from Neolithic Baiyinchanghan site: implications for their function in Northeast China. Journal of archaeological science [J], 38: 3577-3583.
18. Sun X,Wu Y,Wang C;Hill D V 2012. Comparing dry ashing and wet oxidation methods. The case of the rice husk (Oryza sativa L.). Microscopy Research and Technique [J], 75: 1272-1276.
19. Wang J,Zhou X,Wang S,Xu H,Behling H,Ye J,Zheng Y,Liu J,Wu Y;Zhao K 2023. C4 expansion of Central Asia in the middle Miocene linked to the strengthening Indian monsoon. Global and Planetary Change [J], 224: 104096.
20. Wang S-Q,Ye J,Meng J,Li C,Costeur L,Mennecart B,Zhang C,Zhang J,Aiglstorfer M;Wang Y 2022. Sexual selection promotes giraffoid head-neck evolution and ecological adaptation. Science [J], 376: eabl8316.
21. Wang T,Wei D,Jiang Z,Xia X,Wu Y,Han Z,Qu Y,Hu Y;Fuller B T 2022. Microfossil analysis of dental calculus and isotopic measurements reveal the complexity of human-plant dietary relationships in Late Bronze Age Yunnan. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences [J], 14: 94.
22. Chen T,Hou L,Jiang H,Wu Y;Henry A G 2021. Starch grains from human teeth reveal the plant consumption of proto-Shang people (c. 2000–1600 BC) from Nancheng site, Hebei, China. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences [J], 13: 153.
23. He C,Shi-Qi W,Da-Wei T,Xiu-Min X,Shan-Qin C;Yan W 2018. Implications for Late Miocene diet from Diceros gansuensis: starch granules in tooth calculus. Vertebrata PalAsiatica [J], 56: 343.
24. Chen X,Guo X,Wang W,Hu S,Yang M,Wu Y;Hu Y 2017. The subsistence patterns of the Shengedaliang site (~ 4,000 yr BP) revealed by stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes in northern Shaanxi, China. Science China Earth Sciences [J], 60: 268-276.
25. Chen T,Wu Y,Zhang Y,Wang B,Hu Y,Wang C;Jiang H 2012. Archaeobotanical study of ancient food and cereal remains at the Astana Cemeteries, Xinjiang, China.
26. Wang X,Jiang H,Shang X,Wang T,Wu Y,Zhang P,Wang W;Wang C 2014. Comparison of dry ashing and wet oxidation methods for recovering articulated husk phytoliths of foxtail millet and common millet from archaeological soil. Journal of archaeological science [J], 45: 234-239.
27. Wang W,Li Z,Song G;Wu Y 2015. A study of possible hyaena coprolites from the Lingjing Site, Central China. Acta Anthropol Sin [J], 34: 117-125.
28. 汪静怡,谢光茂;吴妍2024.新石器时代橄榄属植物研究现状.文物保护与考古科学[J],36(1) : 170-175.
29. 夏秀敏,王力之,雷少,王结华,郑晓蕖,赵志军;吴妍 2023. 植硅体视角下浙江宁波鱼山遗址的生业考察 . 文物季刊 [J],  75-85 .
30. 夏秀敏,王力之,陶大卫,杜伟,靳松安,张建;吴妍 2022. 从文坎沟东地点的植物遗存分析南阳盆地先秦时期的农业活动. 人类学学报 [J], 41: 89
31. 马嘉成,周新郢;吴妍 2021. 植食性非鸟恐龙胃(肠)容物研究综述.古生物学报, 60(4):14.
32. 夏秀敏,陈鹤; 吴妍2021. 植硅体分析在古脊椎动物牙结石中的研究进展. 第十七届中国古脊椎动物学学术年会论文集. 董为, 张颖奇主编. 北京:海洋出版社, 261-272.
33. 任萌, 杨益民, 仝涛, 李林辉, 赤列次仁;吴妍2020. 西藏阿里曲踏墓地及加嘎子墓地可见残留物的科技分析. (001), 122-128.
34. 夏秀敏,殷宇鹏,许卫红;吴妍 2019. 水稻遗存在陕西华县东阳遗址的发现与探讨. 人类学学报 [J], 38: 119-131.
35. 夏秀敏,张萍;吴妍 2019. 广东珠江三角洲地区茶岭遗址的水稻遗存分析. 第四纪研究 [J], 39: 24-36.
36. 孙青丽,朔知,吴妍;杨益民 2019. 安徽含山凌家滩遗址出土刻槽盆的淀粉粒分析. 人类学学报 [J], 38: 132-147.
37. 吴妍,蒋乐平,郑云飞,王昌燧;赵志军 2018. 长江下游地区水稻植硅体形态变化趋势研究.上山文化论集. 北京:中国文史出版社,1-240.
38. 吴妍 2018. 植硅体在稻作起源研究中的应用. 科技考古与文物保护技术. 北京:科学出版社,1-300.
39. 陈文,夏秀敏,吴妍,周文华;施继龙 2017. 植硅体分析在纸张鉴别中的新应用. 北京印刷学院学报 [J], 25: 1-5.
40. 夏秀敏,孙周勇,杨利平,康宁武,陈相龙,王昌燧;吴妍 2016. 陕北榆林王阳畔遗址的植硅体分析. 人类学学报 [J], 35: 257-266.
41. 陈涛,江章华,何锟宇,杨洋,蒋洪恩,胡耀武,王昌燧;吴妍 2015. 四川新津宝墩遗址的植硅体分析. 人类学学报 [J], 34: 225-233.
42. 李文成,宋国定;吴妍 2014. 河南淅川坑南遗址石制品表面残留淀粉粒的初步分析. 人类学学报 [J], 33: 70.
43. 孙青丽,夏秀敏,王慧,吕良波,吴妍;杨益民 2017. 广州榄园岭遗址先民祭祀遗迹的炭屑和植硅体分析. 文物保护与考古科学 [J], 29: 53-61.
44. 王文娟,吴妍,宋国定,赵克良;李占扬 2013. 灵井许昌人遗址鬣狗粪化石的孢粉和真菌孢子研究. 科学通报 [J], 58: 51-56.
45. 吴妍;王昌燧 2012. 安徽何郢遗址植物残体切割形态与脱粒农具的关系. 文物保护与考古科学 [J], 24: 62-66.  
46. 陶大卫,吴妍;KarenHard 2012.古代淀粉鉴别的新方法:耐热性淀粉酶降解法,第四纪研究[J], 32, 2,264-268.
47. 李涛,吴妍,王昌燧,方晓阳,谢云峰;施继龙 2009. 植硅体分析:鉴别古纸原料的新思路? ——以安徽泾县所产现代宣纸的分析为例.文化資產保存學刊第八期 [J]: 40-47.
48. 陶大卫,杨益民,黄卫东,吴妍,吴耀利;王昌燧 2009. 雕龙碑遗址出土器物残留淀粉粒分析. 考古 [J]: 92-96.
49. 赵卓,靳松安,司彬,曹艳朋,吴妍,郑万泉;王昌燧 2012. 淅川沟湾遗址红烧土中植物遗存的辨别. 华夏考古 [J]: 34-37.
50. 吴妍,武仙竹,陶大卫,胡耀武;王昌燧 2008. 湖北郧西黄龙洞遗址的植硅体分析. 第十一届中国古脊椎动物学学术年会论文集. 北京:海洋出版社,213-220.
51. 姚政权,吴妍,王昌燧;赵春青 2007. 河南新密市新砦遗址的植硅石分析. 考古 [J]: 90-96.
52. 吴妍,黄文川,姚政权,宫希成;王昌燧 2005. 安徽滁州何郢遗址的植硅体分析. 农业考古 [J]: 59-64.
53. 姚政权,吴妍,王昌燧,蔡钢铁;王海明 2005. 温州老鼠山遗址的植硅石分析. 农业考古 [J]: 54-58.
54. 姚政权,吴妍,王昌燧,何驽;赵志军 2006. 山西襄汾陶寺遗址的植硅石分析. 农业考古 [J]: 19-26.
55. 吴妍,姚政权,龚明,赵志军;王昌燧 2006. 三维图像重建在植硅体研究中的应用. 农业考古 [J]: 61-64.
56. 吴妍,黄文川,王昌燧,杨益民,王峰;姚政权 2007. 安徽霍邱堰台西周遗址的植硅体分析. 农业考古 [J]: 56-59.

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