Radiocarbon dating uses the decay of a radioactive isotope of carbon (14C) to measure time
and date objects containing carbon-bearing material. With a half-life of 5,700±30 years …

Historic human–climate interactions have been of interest to scholars for a long time.
However, exploring the long-term relation between prehistoric demography and climate …

" Past, present and future" The archaeological materials recovered from the Anyang
excavations... in the period between 1928 and 1937... have laid a new foundation for the …

The archaeological record is a combination of what is seen by eye, as well as the
microscopic record revealed with the help of instrumentation. The information embedded in …

The invention of pottery introduced fundamental shifts in human subsistence practices and
sociosymbolic behaviors. Here, we describe the dating of the early pottery from Xianrendong …

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 …

In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and
why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of …

It is a challenge to make sense of who we are. Where did we come from? Why are we so
radically different from other animals and so surprisingly similar to others? Why do our …

Human history has been shaped by global dispersals of technologies, although
understanding of what enabled these processes is limited. Here, we explore the behavioural …

Modern genetics, ecology and archaeology are combined to reconstruct the domestication
and diversification of rice. Early rice cultivation followed two pathways towards …