Xin Su (Chinese: 苏昕) is a currently PhD candidate of Archaeology Program in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. He received his M.A. and B.A. both in archaeology from the School of History, Wuhan University, China. His doctoral research focus on the lithic and ceramic technology, with emphasis on the interaction between resources, environment, and society during the Bronze Age in China. He participated in the excavation of many sites from the Neolithic to the historical period. He is currently conducting research in two regions: the Tao River Valley (洮河流域) in northwestern China, where he is investigating a research on the production of jades and lithics, and the Panlongcheng site (盘龙城遗址) in southern China, where he is analyzing lithic tools and writing excavation report. He has published several articles on archaeology both in Chinese and English peer-reviewed journals, covering some studies on bronzes, such as bronze vessels unearthed from Panlongcheng site and SuizhongMijia Ding (随仲芈加鼎) from a personal collection (but recently excavation in Suizhou [随州], China shows that this Ding should belong to a royal cemetery of Zeng State [曾国] in Western Zhou [东周]), some studies on lithic production, ancient landscape as well as paleoenvironment at the Panlongcheng site, and social interactions in the northeastern China.