In an attempt to quantify Holocene anthropogenic land-cover change in temperate China,
we 1) applied the REVEALS model to estimate plant-cover change using 94 pollen records …

An Economist Best History Book 2017 “History as it should be written.”—Barry Cunliffe,
Guardian “Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the staggering price our …

One of the greatest puzzles of human evolutionary history concerns the how and why of the
transition from small-scale,'simple'societies to large-scale, hierarchically complex ones. This …

We generated genome-wide data from 69 Europeans who lived between 8,000–3,000 years
ago by enriching ancient DNA libraries for a target set of almost 400,000 polymorphisms …

This book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one
that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor …

In the 19th century, the world was Europeanized. In the 20th century, it was Americanized.
Now, in the 21st century, the world is being Asianized. The “Asian Century” is even bigger …

19. Jahrhunderts by CH Beck publishers in Munich in January 2009. it rapidly went through
five editions and two unnumbered special editions and is now being translated into Chinese …

Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure,
trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily …

Summary The Eastern Eurasian Steppe was home to historic empires of nomadic
pastoralists, including the Xiongnu and the Mongols. However, little is known about the …

Modern genetic data combined with appropriate statistical methods have the potential to
contribute substantially to our understanding of human history. We have developed an …