Human–environment interaction along the eastern Silk Road during the Neolithic and Bronze Age

G Dong, H Liang, Z Zhang - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Human-environment interactions during the Neolithic and Bronze Age, when farming and
herding lifestyles spread across Eurasia, has become a subject of increasing research …

Recommendations for stable isotope analysis of charred archaeological crop remains

AK Styring, P Vaiglova, A Bogaard… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Stable isotope analysis of plant remains recovered from archaeological sites is becoming
more routine. There remains a lack of consensus, however, on how to appropriately select …

Needs for a conceptual bridge between biological domestication and early food globalization

X Liu, M Jones - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The past 15 y has seen much development in documentation of domestication of plants and
animals as gradual traditions spanning millennia. There has also been considerable …

The δ15N values of foxtail millet (Setaria italica) and common millet (Panicum miliaceum) are reliable indicators of manuring practices

J Yang, X Yang, T You, F Chen - Science China Earth Sciences, 2024 - Springer
Millet agriculture, which originated in northern China, alongside rice agriculture, have
nurtured the Chinese civilization. Prehistoric manuring practices likely promoted and …

Asynchronicity of dietary transformation in different regions along the Bronze Age Eastern Silk Road

M Ma, W Wei, Y Wang, F Sun, J Dong, Y Yang… - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The eastern ancient Silk Road (EASR)—an area critical in linking Central China
with the pastoralist societies of the eastern Eurasian Steppe and Central Asia—was a key …

Agricultural economic transformations and their impacting factors around 4000 BP in the Hexi Corridor, Northwest China

H Li, N James, J Chen, S Zhang, L Du, Y Yang, G Chen… - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
By 4000 BP, trans-Eurasian agricultural exchanges increased across the Hexi Corridor.
However, the nature and timing of many early prehistoric agricultural exchanges remain …

Late Neolithic to Bronze Age water management and upland rice cultivation in the mountainous areas of Southeastern China Coast

G Wu, X Zuo, W Wu, L Ren, C Wu, Y Lin, H Xie… - Quaternary …, 2024 - Elsevier
The southeast coast of China is a crucial area for the spread of agriculture from mainland
Asia to Taiwan and the islands of Southeast Asia. However, whether prehistoric rice …

Into thin air: prehistoric intensive crop management in high altitude western Tibet

MM Ritchey, L Tang, P Vaiglova, H Lu, Y Sun… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
High-altitude conditions on the Tibetan Plateau are often depicted as an inhospitable
environment for conventional farming, yet evidence shows that communities in western Tibet …

Diversity of Late Yangshao Agricultural Practices at Xishanping, NW China

P Sheng, E Allen, T Wang - Environmental Archaeology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Previous work at the Xishanping site, located in the upper Wei River basin in eastern Gansu
Province, NW China, has identified the earliest archaeological evidence for agricultural …

[图书][B] Environmental Foundations to the Rise of Early Civilisations in China

Y Zhuang - 2024 - cambridge.org
The transition from the middle to late Holocene (5000–4000 BP) coincided with profound
socioeconomic transformations and intensified regional and trans-regional interactions in …