Oracle bone inscriptions of the late Shang Dynasty (1250-1046 BC) record the burning of jade as a ceremonial sacrifice, a practice now corroborated ar......
The high-altitude landscape of western Tibet is one of the most cxtreme environments in which humans have managed to introduce crop cultivation. To da......
Studies of 'food globalisation' have traced the dispersal of cereals across prehistoric Eurasia. The degree to which these crops were accompanied by k......
This study presents preliminary discoveries from Sding Chung cave, an early multi-burial cave site in the Himalayan highlands dating from 300BC-AD 300......
Reconstructing the history of elite communication in ancient China benefits from additional archaeological evidence. We combine textual analysis with ......
The horse played a crucial role in China through the first millennium BC, used both for military advantage and, through incorporation into elite buria......
Archaeological research demonstrates that an agropastoral economy was established in Tibet during the second millennium BC, aided by the cultivation o......
The architectural connections between western Central Asia and China are not well understood. Recent investigations at the Haermodun site in central X......
Bioarchaeological research provides unique insights on human adaptation, diet, lifestyle and epidemiology. The Mogou Bioarchaeology Project explores h......
Scholars have long debated when the Neolithic began in China. Neolithisation, however, is a process rather than an event. It is more realistic to inve......
The interplay between sustainability and anthropogenic landscape transformation is crucial to understanding the past decline and eradication of wild a......
The prehistoric peopling of the Tibetan Plateau is a contentious issue, with most archaeologists proposing that the first occupants migrated into the ......
Early Holocene populations in southern China and Southeast Asia are generally considered to have continued practising hunting and gathering, while mil......
Donkeys facilitated trade and transport in much of the ancient world, but were seldom used in elite or leisure activities. While Tang Dynasty (AD 618-......
