Almost a century of systematic anthropological research on pastoral nomads has produced
significant data and theory for understanding these mobile societies. Substantially less …

We present a comprehensive review of the characteristics and structure of the Eurasian
steppe and of its evolutionary history in space and time. During the last decades …

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 …

The use of stable isotope ratio analysis in archaeology has exploded over the past few
decades to the point where it is now an established tool that is routinely used to investigate …

The two East Asian millets, broomcorn (Panicum miliaceum) and foxtail millet (Setaria
italica), spread across Eurasia and became important crops by the second millennium BC …

" A comprehensive and entertaining historical and botanical review, providing an enjoyable
and cognitive read.”—Nature The foods we eat have a deep and often surprising past. From …

The westward expansion of human millet consumption from north China has important
implications for understanding early interactions between the East and West. However, few …

Nomads, or highly specialized mobile pastoralists, are prominent features in Central Asian
archaeology, and they are often depicted in direct conflict with neighboring sedentary …

This article presents new archaeological research on the ritual and domestic life of
pastoralists at the Bronze Age campsite Tasbas, Kazakhstan. We reconstruct the hitherto …

We report the results of stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of 354 human and
faunal samples from five archaeological cultures of the Minusinsk Basin, Southern Siberia …