The response of population and agriculture to abrupt climate events remains a matter of
heated debates, especially the societal collapses related to the 4.2 ka event. Long-term …

Millet agriculture, ie, broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) and foxtail millet (Setaria italica),
initially originated in northern China and provided the basis for the emergence of the first …

Issues surrounding the difficult task of correlating archaeological and climatic trajectories are
directly impacting the study of human-environmental interaction in Ancient China. We have …

Millet-dominant agriculture built a solid material base for cultural expansion and social
development in prehistoric northern China. Around the middle-late Yangshao period …

Understanding the interplay between subsistence strategies and settlement patterns is
fundamental for understanding past social-economic and cultural changes. Around the third …

Abstract During the Holocene, rich Neolithic and Bronze cultures developed in the middle
and lower reaches of Yellow River valley (north China) and Yangtze River valley (south …

The Shimao (石峁) site, located in northeastern Shaanxi Province, is the focus of some of the
most exciting work being done in Chinese archaeology today. Since 2012, the site has been …

Much of the zooarchaeological research on early agricultural societies in North China
focuses on long-term processes of animal domestication. The conventional idea of a simple …

In this article we argue that several of the dominant narratives concerning the political
economy of the Chinese Bronze Age are in need of major revision, including its …

陕北地区是研究中华文明起源的重要区域. 有关陕北地区史前时期生业经济的研究目前集中于
北部的无定河与秃尾河流域, 南部的资料仍然缺乏. 本研究以2019 年, 2021 …