By roughly 8,000 calendar years before the present (calBP), hunter‐gatherers across a
broad swath of north China had begun small‐scale farming of broomcorn millet (Panicum …

This article reviews the archaeology and chronology of the Chinese Upper Paleolithic and
the human fossils attributed to this period. The onset of the Upper Paleolithic in China dates …

There can be no doubt that Peter Bellwood's First Farmers is a major new statement which
presents a robustly expressed solution to one of those classic problems which provides a …

This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor's seminal book Radiocarbon
Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments …

This paper presents a Levantine model for the origins of cultivation of various wild plants as
motivated by the vagaries of the climatic fluctuation of the Younger Dryas within the context …

By 9000 cal BP, the first sedentary villages, marking the Early Neolithic, are present in
Northeast China, North China, and the Middle and Lower Yangtze regions, but plant and …

Temporal and spatial patterns in archeological data from Pleistocene north China suggest
strong correlations between climate change and culture change, but only in extreme cases …

According to direct evidence from archaeology and supporting evidence from comparative
linguistics, the Neolithic cultures of the Yangtze alluvial plain played a significant role in the …

The desert and arid steppes of Mongolia and northern China were geographically central to
the spread of pastoralism and the rise of pastoralist states, but research on the …

Intensification technologies used in late Pleistocene northern China include microblades,
milling stones and pottery, all of which have been implicated in development of agriculture in …