冯时，1958年10月生于北京市。1982年毕业于北京大学历史系考古专业。现任中国社会科学院学部委员，国家文科一级教授，中国社会科学院考古研究所研究员，中国社会科学院大学教授、博士生导师，郑州大学特聘教授，中国社会科学院古文字学学科带头人。享受国务院政府特殊津贴。兼任中国历史研究院学术咨询委员会委员、中国郭沫若研究会副会长、中国古文字研究会理事等职。主要研究领域为古文字学与天文考古学，旁治商周考古学、先秦史、天文年代学、历史文献学、民族古文字学、古代思想史和科技史。开创性地建立中国天文考古学体系，揭示中国文字起源夷夏两源史事。出版学术著作12部，发表论文260余篇，主编《金文文献集成》。主要代表作有《中国天文考古学》《文明以止——上古的天文、思想与制度》等。

Feng Shi was born in Beijing in October 1958. He graduated from the Department of Archaeology, School of History, Peking University, in 1982. Currently, he is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a National First-Class Professor in the humanities, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a Distinguished Professor at Zhengzhou University, and the leading scholar in the discipline of Ancient Chinese Writing at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is entitled to a special government allowance awarded by the State Council. Additionally, he serves as a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Chinese Academy of Historical Sciences, Vice President of the Guo Moruo Research Society of China, and a director of the Ancient Chinese Writing Research Society, among other academic and administrative roles. His primary research areas encompass ancient Chinese writing and astronomical archaeology, as well as Shang-Zhou archaeology, pre-Qin history, astronomical chronology, historical documentology, ethnic scripts, the history of ancient thought, and the history of science and technology. He has made pioneering contributions to the establishment of the theoretical framework of Chinese astronomical archaeology and has elucidated the dual origins of Chinese characters from the Yi and Xia cultural traditions. He has authored 12 academic monographs, published over 260 scholarly articles, and edited the Collection of Bronzeware Inscriptions. His major representative works include Chinese Astroarchaeology and Continuity of the Illustrious Culture: Astronomy, Thoughts and Institutions in Ancient China.