The Middle to Late Holocene spread of agropastoralism throughout Eurasia not only
subjected domesticated taxa to stressors associated with novel environments but also …

The nature of economies and the movement of agricultural crops across Eurasia in the
Bronze Age have been the subject of significant research interest in recent years. This study …

Abstract In central Eurasian archaeology, Soviet-and post-Soviet investigations and more
recent biologically-focused analyses are often subtly presented as two extremes of …

Agropastoralism has prevailed in Inner Asia since the Bronze Age. It is an optimal
subsistence strategy of inhabitants for adaptation to arid marginal environment. However …

The identification of camp sites of Iron Age cultures on the Eurasian steppes has long been
a problem as the traces of seasonal settlements are faint and often destroyed by agricultural …

The significance of local spatial choices and memory and their impact on mobility networks
is scarcely recognised in Mongolian archaeology. Here, we present a mapping strategy …

Mobile pastoralism was a key lifeway in the Late Bronze and Iron Age of Northwest China
and played a crucial role in the regional socio-cultural development, as well as the formation …

The rapidly changing environments resulting from anthropogenic activities and climate
change presented challenges to biodiversity protection efforts. China, in its pursuit of …

Being a crucial subsistence strategy for the steppe communities, transhumant pastoralism
has played a pivotal role in facilitating early communication of East and West civilizations …

The spatial organization within ancient settlements offers valuable insights into the evolution
of social complexity. This paper examines spatially and chronologically contextualized …