Hongliang Lu is currently a professor in the Department of Archaeology at Sichuan University. He received his Ph.D. in archaeology from Sichuan University. He has a keen interest in the mountain archaeology of  East Asia and also has led in many important archaeological excavations on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and in Southwest China, and published more than 5 monographs and 80 papers in Chinese and international journals.