Stephen Kowalewski, a professor of anthropology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, is overseeing a $25,000 Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation on behalf of doctoral student Yanxi Wang. Under Kowaleski’s supervision, Wang is mapping, describing, collecting and dating artifacts from the earliest human occupation, at least 8,000 years ago, up to historic time along the Middle Guan River valley in Nanyang, China.