During the last two decades, new archaeological projects which systematically integrate a
variety of plant recovery techniques, along with palaeoecology, palaeoclimate, soil science …

To what degree is cultural multi-level selection responsible for the rise of environmentally
transformative human behaviors? And vice versa? From the clearing of vegetation using fire …

长期以来, 由于受到考古样品保存和研究方法的限制, 成都平原先秦农业结构变化,
人类生业方式, 农业发展与微环境的关系等研究尚不够完善. 本文对成都平原的新津宝墩遗址和 …

Agricultural origins and dispersals are subjects of fundamental importance to archaeology
as well as many other scholarly disciplines. These investigations are world-wide in scope …

Here we present one of the world's oldest examples of large-scale and formalized water
management, in the case of the Liangzhu culture of the Yangtze Delta, dated at 5,300–4,300 …

Process philosophy offers a metaphysical foundation for domestication studies. This
grounding is especially important given the European colonialist origin of 'domestication'as …

Rice agriculture is the foundation of Asian civilizations south of the Yangtze River. Although
rice history is well documented for its lower Yangtze homeland area, the early southward …

We have compiled an extensive database of archaeological evidence for rice across Asia,
including 400 sites from mainland East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia. This dataset is …

Domestication is the process by which plants or animals evolved to fit a human-managed
environment, and it is marked by innovations in plant morphology and anatomy that are in …

Compared with the monistic structure of crop agriculture in Southwest Asia and
Mesoamerica, agriculture in ancient China reflects the characteristics of a dualistic structure …