China is one of the main global centers of origin of agriculture. Foxtail millet (Setaria italica),
common millet (Panicum miliaceum), and rice (Oryza sativa) were the first crops to be …

Alcoholic beverages played an essential role in rituals in ancient societies. Here we report
the first evidence for beer drinking in the context of burial ritual in early Holocene southern …

China is one of the few centers in the world where plant domestication evolved
independently, but its developmental trajectory is poorly understood. This is because there …

The processes that led to the transition from small mobile groups of hunter-gatherers in the
Late Pleistocene to sedentary communities of the Early Holocene in north China are poorly …

Human activity has transformed the Earth's landscapes pervasively for thousands of years,
and the most important anthropogenic alteration was the clearing of forests and the …

Recent studies have shown that the proportion of rice bulliform phytoliths with≥ 9 fish-scale
decorations can be used as a criterion to differentiate wild rice from its domesticated …

摘要文章论述了从河南新郑裴李岗遗址(8500~ 7000aB. P.) 出土的8 件石磨盘表面提取的1000
多颗淀粉粒的研究情况, 根据其形态特征分析, 其来源至少可分为栎属(Quercusspp.) 果实(橡子) …

The article presents an original analysis which combines use-wear, 3D modelling and
spatial analyses to experimental archaeology in order to investigate Early Upper …

Sediments from ash pits and cultural layers at the Peiligang and Yangshao period site of
Zhuzhai, near Zhengzhou on the Yellow River, were floated to recover charred …

This study presents high-resolution pollen and charcoal records from Guxu Lake in the
Taihu Lake Basin, eastern China, spanning the last 23,000 years. The sedimentary …