Contrasting with the predominance of blade-based assemblages in the Eurasian Upper
Paleolithic, the large-scale persistence of a core-and-flake technology remains one of the …

The site of Shuidonggou Locality 2 offers important evidence for the Late Paleolithic
sequence of north China. The site not only contains one of the earliest instances of …

The apparent simplicity and the lack of changes in stone tool production during the
Paleolithic in China is often explained by environmental, subsistence and demographic …

Systematic analysis of flake tool assemblages during MIS 3 in North China indicates that in
this period, local lithic technology inherits the “small-sized tool tradition” which is prevalent in …

Broomcorn and foxtail millets were being cultivated in the West Liao River basin in Northeast
China by at least the sixth millennium BCE. However, when and how millet agriculture …

Peter Francis Jr. has devoted much of his research to Indo-Pacific glass beads. These
productions are among the emblematic objects made by South Asian glass workshops for …