1982年出生于山东济南，现任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。主要从事环境考古、古人类生态适应及影响研究。2011年1月年毕业于中国科学院地球环境研究所获第四纪地质学博士学位，同年进入中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所从事博士后研究，2013年6月任助理研究员，2025年1月至今任研究员。期间到澳大利亚核科学与技术组织（ANSTO）环境研究所访学（2009），入选中国科学院青促会会员（2018），澳大利亚人类演化中心（ARCHE）访问学者（2023年）。负责中国科学院先导（B类）专项子课题，国家自然科学基金委面上、青年项目，作为骨干参与国家重大项目以及重点研发计划等。任第四纪冰川与第四纪地质专业委员会副主任委员。

国家自然科学基金面上项目（42471185）：MIS3阶段晚期中国北方气候环境变化及人类适应，2025.01-2028.12，负责人.

国家自然科学基金委员会重大项目“海岸带环境变迁与文化文明演替”课题（T2192952）： 海岸带气候-生态演变过程及早期人类影响，2022.01-2026.12，参与.

国家重点重点研发项目“古植被对过去不同幅度增温和CO2浓度变化的响应”课题（2022YFF0801502）：干旱-半干旱区典型暖期植被演变，2023.01-2027.12，参与.

国家自然科学基金面上项目（42072212）：中国东北地区更新世晚期大型哺乳动物消亡的时间及驱动因素研究，2021.01-2024.12，负责人.

中国科学院战略性先导科技专项（B类）子课题（XDB26030404）：第四纪生态演变与人类适应，2018.06-2023.05，负责人.

国家自然科学基金面上项目（41772371）：沙漠-黄土过渡区全新世气候环境事件及其对早期农业活动的影响，2018.01-2021.12，负责人.

国家自然科学青年基金项目（41102113）：新疆伊犁地区20 ka以来植被历史与气候变迁，2012.01-2014.12，负责人.

国家重点基础研究规划项目（2015CB953800） “末次冰消期以来中国中东部极端气候环境事件与农业起源发展和人类适应研究”，2015-2019，参加.

国家重点基础研究规划项目（2010CB950200） “末次盛冰期以来我国气候环境变化及干旱-半干旱区人类的影响与适应”，2010-2014，参加.

Yang Qingjiang, Zhao Keliang*, Zhao Lingxia, Zhou Xinying, Lu Lili, Zhang Yaping, Zhang Lizhao, Wang Jian, Lu Xinyi and Li Xiaoqiang. 2026. Early nut exploitation and its potential for the adaptation of hunter-gatherers to climate change during the LGM in southern China, Science China Earth Sciences.

Bai Guangyi, Zhao Keliang*, Wang Jian, Lu Lili, and Li Xiaoqiang. 2026. Vegetation pattern and succession from LGM to early Holocene in the eastern coastal zone of China, Quaternary International, 752: 110057.

Ruan Qijun#, Li Hao#, Xing Song#, Zhao Keliang#, Liu Jianhui, Clément Zanolli, Luc Doyon, Davide Delpiano, Marco Peresani, Francesco d’Errico, Fabrice Demeter, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Xiao Peiyuan, Wang Yuqing, Jia Zhenxiu, Yang Qingjiang, Fu Qiaomei, Sun Qiyahui, Zhao Yuhao, Lin Sungui, Fan Anchuan, Wang Youping, Shao Qingfeng, Li Bo, and Chen Fahu. 2026. Denisovans from southwestern China and their subsistence strategies, Nature.

Li Yanpeng, Li Shengrui, Xu Hai, Zhao Keliang, Chen Guanhan, Zhang Yaping, Ma Jiacheng, Junchi Liu, Yong Ge, Yan Zheng, Xinying Zhou, and Xiaoqiang Li. 2026. Synchrony of prehistoric agricultural evolution and drought events in the North China Plain, Quaternary Science Reviews, 375: 109807.

Liu Wei, Yue Jianping, Li Youqian, Zhao Keliang, Lu Siqi, Bai Guangyi, Liu Yang, Zhang Yuxiu, and Yang Shixia. 2026. The appearance of microblade technology at the onset of Marine Isotope Stage 2 in Northeast China, Quaternary Science Reviews, 371: 109712.

Xu Jingwen, Gao Feng, Jillian Huntley, Yang Shixia, Zhao Keliang, Zhou Xinying, Huan Faxiang, Zhang Yuxiu, Ruan Qijun, He Linshan, Qiu Kaiwei, Michael Petraglia, and Li Xiaoqiang. 2026. Terminal Pleistocene ochre use at Fodongdi Cave, southwestern China, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 69: 105546.

王元, 刘文晖, 刘立家, 赵克良, 黄柏挺, 孙博阳, 汪发志, 朱敏, 江左其杲, 史静耸, 胡小伟, 秦亚萍, 徐繁, 高星, 金昌柱. 2026. 安徽繁昌人字洞遗址2020~2024年发掘简报, 第四纪研究, 46: 908-24.

杨庆江, 赵克良*, 赵凌霞, 周新郢, 陆丽丽, 张雅平, 张立召, 王建, 鲁心怡, 李小强. 2026. 中国南方狩猎采集者坚果利用及其在应对末次冰盛期气候的潜力, 中国科学: 地球科学.

Lu Lili, Keliang Zhao*, Yiyuan Li, Hao Li, Junchi Liu, Guangyi Bai, Peiyuan Xiao, Qingjiang Yang, and Xiaoqiang Li. 2025. Late Pleistocene vegetation succession, climate change and hominin adaptation in Sandinggai site, central South China, Journal of Geographical Sciences, 35: 1642-1666.

Ruan Qijun, Hao Li, Peiyuan Xiao, Bo Li, Hélène Monod, Alexandra Sumner, Keliang Zhao, Jianhui Liu, Zhenxiu Jia, Chunxin Wang, Anchuan Fan, Marie-Hélène Moncel, Ben Marwick, Marco Peresani, Youping Wang, Fahu Chen, and Davide Delpiano. 2025. Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122: e2418029122.

Zhang Yaping, Keliang Zhao*, Xuan Li, Yunan Zhang, Junchi Liu, Xinying Zhou, and Xiaoqiang Li. 2025. Fungal Spores as a Record of Late Holocene Grazing Activities in the Hexi Corridor, Environmental Archaeology: 1-16.

白广一, 赵克良*, 李有骞, 刘伟, 杨石霞, 王建, 李小强. 2025. 黑龙江西山头旧石器遗址的环境背景, 人类学学报: 1-12.

赵克良*, 白广一, 惠家明, 张玄, 李小强. 2025. 华龙洞遗址古人类生存的植被与环境背景, 人类学学报, 44: 906-916.

Bai Guangyi, Keliang Zhao*, Yaping Zhang, Junchi Liu, Xinying Zhou, and Xiaoqiang Li. 2024. Anthropogenic Impacts on a Temperate Forest Ecosystem, Revealed by a Late Holocene Pollen Record from an Archaeological Site in NE China, Forests, 15: 1331.

Li Yanpeng, Xinying Zhou, Keliang Zhao, Junchi Liu, Guanhan Chen, Yaping Zhang, Jiacheng Ma, Nan Sun, and Xiaoqiang Li. 2024. Cultivation and morphology of jujube (Ziziphus Jujuba Mill.) in the Qi River Basin of Northern China during the Neolithic Period, Scientific Reports, 14: 2305.

Shen Hui, Zhenwei Qiu, Keliang Zhao, Xinying Zhou, and Xiaoqiang Li. 2024. Wood use and forest management by Neolithic millet farmers at the Xinglong site, northern China, Science China Earth Sciences, 67: 1910-1921.

Wang Jian, Guilin Zhang, Wenchao Zhang, Xinying Zhou, Junchi Liu, Zeyang Zhu, Yimin Yang, Qingjiang Yang, Keliang Zhao*, and Xiaoqiang Li. 2024. Seesaw between the westerlies and Asian monsoon regulates vegetation and climate during the last deglaciation in southern Northeast China, Quaternary Science Reviews, 344: 109008.

Yang Qingjiang, Keliang Zhao, Yongbin Chu, Jian Wang, Fang Han, Zengwu Wang, Jinbao Liu, Xinying Zhou, and Xiaoqiang Li. 2024. The adaptation of dryland crops to the climate in southern China, Journal of Archaeological Science, 170: 106057.

Zhang Yaping, Jianjun Yu, Keliang Zhao*, Junchi Liu, Guanhan Chen, Xuan Li, Krishna Hu, Xinying Zhou, and Xiaoqiang Li. 2024. Early transhumance recorded by the microfossils of sheep coprolites in the Tongtian Cave, China, Journal of Archaeological Science, 165: 105973.

Zhang Yaping, Guilin Zhang, Keliang Zhao*, Jian Wang, Marika Vicziany, Xinying Zhou, and Xiaoqiang Li. 2024. Mid to late Holocene climate changes and grazing activities in northern Loess Plateau, China, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 647: 112261.

李延鹏, 周新郢, 孙楠, 赵克良, 陈冠翰, 张雅平, 马嘉成, 刘俊池,李小强. 2024. 中全新世温暖期华北地区农业结构演化及其对环境的适应, 第四纪研究, 44: 1433-49.

沈慧, 邱振威, 赵克良, 周新郢, 李小强. 2024. 中国北方兴隆遗址早期农业人群对木材的利用和管理, 中国科学: 地球科学, 54: 1937-49.

王法岗, 杨石霞, 葛俊逸, 岳健平, 赵克良, Andreu Ollé, 李文艳, 杨海勇, 刘连强, 关莹, 谢飞, Francesco d’Errico, Michael Petraglia, 邓成龙. 2024. 泥河湾盆地下马碑遗址 2013 年发掘简报, 人类学学报, 43: 143.

吴妍, 谢光茂, 赵克良, 蒙长旺, 陈冠翰, 汪静怡, 林强. 2024. 广西崇左江西岸遗址人类的生存方式, 人类学学报, 43: 380.

杨庆江, 赵克良*, 周新郢, 张雅平, 李大伟, 王伟, 李小强. 2024. 晚更新世-早全新世广西独山洞遗址孢粉记录的植被景观演替, 第四纪研究, 44: 793-804.

赵克良*, 刘俊池, 赵战护, 魏惠平, 白广一, 石宇翔, 周新郢, 李小强. 2024. 中国北方坝上草原早-中全新世环境变化与农业活动, 第四纪研究, 44: 1421-32.

Luo Fan, Nan Sun, Xiaoqiang Li, Xinying Zhou, Keliang Zhao, Xue Shang, Junfeng Guo, and Liyan Guo. 2023. Winter determines the annual:seasonal temperature change of Asia temperate monsoon region since mid-Holocene, Quaternary Science Reviews, 322: 108386.

Zhao Keliang*, Huiping Wei, Zhanhu Zhao, Yaping Zhang, Wenqing Liu, Jian Wang, Guanhan Chen, Hui Shen, Hua Du, Peng Cheng, Shan Chen, Peter Weiming Jia, Xinying Zhou, and Xiaoqiang Li. 2023. Synchronous change in the intensified millet cultivation and ecological environment from the early to middle Holocene on the Inner Mongolia Plateau, northern China, The Holocene, 33: 347-354.

Wang Fagang, Shixia Yang, Junyi Ge, Andreu Ollé, Keliang Zhao, Jianping Yue, Daniela Eugenia Rosso, Katerina Douka, Ying Guan, Wenyan Li, Haiyong Yang, Lianqiang Liu, Fei Xie, Zhengtang Guo, Rixiang Zhu, Chenglong Deng, Francesco d’Errico, and Michael Petraglia. 2022. Innovative ochre processing and tool use in China 40,000 years ago, Nature, 603: 284-289.

Zhao Keliang*, Miao Wang, Mingchao Shan, Yaping Zhang, Xinying Zhou, Fuyou Chen, and Xiaoqiang Li. 2022. The early Holocene ecology of hilly terrain reconstructed by plant remains from Ping'an Cave in northern China, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 304: 104718.

赵克良*, 姜海涛, 王元, 同号文, 张雅平, 葛俊逸, 周新郢, 金昌柱, 李小强. 2022. 中国真猛犸象和披毛犀化石14C年代研究新进展, 人类学学报, 41: 551-562.

Shen Hui, Xiaoqiang Li, Robert Spengler, Xinying Zhou, and Keliang Zhao. 2021. Forest cover and composition on the Loess Plateau during the Middle to Late-Holocene: Integrating wood charcoal analyses, The Holocene, 31: 38-49.

Shen Hui, Keliang Zhao, Junyi Ge, Xinying Zhou, Yayun Song, Sizhao Liu, Yuan Wang, Changzhu Jin, Chunling Gao, Wenjuan Huang, and Xiaoqiang Li. 2021. Early and Middle Pleistocene vegetation and its impact on faunal succession on the Liaodong Peninsula, Northeast China, Quaternary International, 591: 15-23.

Zhou Xinying, Zhu Lin, Robert N Spengler, Keliang Zhao, Junchi Liu, Xing Xu, Yige Bao, John Dodson, Hai Xu, and Xiaoqiang Li. 2021. Water management and wheat yields in ancient China: Carbon isotope discrimination of archaeological wheat grains, The Holocene, 31: 285-93.

Yang Qingjiang, Keliang Zhao*, Xinying Zhou, Jian Wang, Guanhan Chen, Dawei Li, Lingxia Zhao, Wei Wang, and Xiaoqiang Li. 2021. Evaluation of the potential of surface pollen spectra from caves in SW China for vegetation reconstruction, Quaternary International, 591: 119-28.

Zhang Yaping, Ying Zhang, Songmei Hu, Xinying Zhou, Linjing Liu, Junchi Liu, Keliang Zhao*, and Xiaoqiang Li. 2021. Pastoralism and Millet Cultivation During the Bronze Age in the Temperate Steppe Region of Northern China, Frontiers in Earth Science, 9.

张雅平, 赵克良*, 周新郢, 杨庆江, 贾伟明, 李小强. 2021. 家养食草动物粪便中的花粉及菌孢子类型及其对人类活动的指示意义, 人类学学报, 40: 879.

Yang Qingjiang, Xinying Zhou, Robert Nicholas Spengler, Keliang Zhao, Junchi Liu, Yige Bao, Peter Weiming Jia, and Xiaoqiang Li. 2020. Prehistoric agriculture and social structure in the southwestern Tarim Basin: multiproxy analyses at Wupaer, Scientific Reports, 10: 14235.

Zhou, Xinying, Jianjun Yu, Robert Nicholas Spengler, Hui Shen, Keliang Zhao, Junyi Ge, Yige Bao, Junchi Liu, Qingjiang Yang, Guanhan Chen, Peter Weiming Jia, and Xiaoqiang Li. 2020. 5,200-year-old cereal grains from the eastern Altai Mountains redate the trans-Eurasian crop exchange, Nature Plants, 6: 78-87.

包易格, 李小强, 刘汉斌, 赵克良. 2020. 中国黄土高原北部地区新石器-青铜时代农业结构演变及其对区域生态环境的适应, 人类学学报, 39: 461.

Zhao Keliang*, Xiaoqiang Li, Hai Xu, Xingying Zhou, John Dodson, and Junchi Liu. 2019. Increased winter-spring precipitation from the last glaciation to the Holocene inferred from a δ13Corg record from Yili Basin (Xinjiang, NW China), Science China Earth Sciences, 62: 1125-1137.

Zhao Keliang*, Xinying Zhou, Ming Ji, and Xiaoqiang Li. 2019. Palynological Evidence of Late Holocene Paleo-Monsoon in Eastern Pamir, Geophysical Research Letters, 46: 10015-23.