Abstract High-elevation (> 2500 m asl) environments pose severe challenges for human
adaptation, and the timing and catalysts of their sustained year-round occupation remain a …

The onset of sedentism on the Tibetan Plateau is often presumed to be associated with the
dispersal of agriculture or farmers from archaeological sites located in the low elevation …

Aims A comprehensive understanding of the genetic variation of walnuts (Juglans regia and
J. sigillata) in the Himalaya and its potential drivers are essential for the conservation and …

Background Domestication and introduction of dairy animals facilitated the permanent
human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau. Yet the history of dairy pastoralism in the Tibetan …

Abstract The Tibetan Plateau is the world's largest high-elevation ecosystem. Here, we
present evidence of stone artefacts from an in-situ stratigraphic sequence with the …

The settlement of the Tibetan Plateau epitomizes human adaptation to a high-altitude
environment that poses great challenges to human activity. Here, we reconstruct a 4000 …

Adaptive introgression (AI) facilitates local adaptation in a wide range of species. Many state-
of-the-art methods detect AI with ad-hoc approaches that identify summary statistic outliers …

According to fossil evidence, the Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) refers to archaeological
assemblages associated with the early dispersal of Homo sapiens across Eurasia. These …

The transition of human societies from high mobility to sedentary lifestyles had a profound
impact on subsistence, technology, and the origin of civilization. Sedentism was influenced …

China, with its large geographic span, possesses rich genetic diversity across vast frontier
regions in addition to the Han Chinese majority. Importantly, demographic events and …