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

Over more than a century, a growing body of books, articles, and dissertations has emerged
that can now be recognized as part of the archaeology of ethnogenesis. Regardless of …

By documenting how humans adapted to changes in their environment that are often much
greater than those experienced in the instrumental record, archaeology provides our only …

We report an investigation of forty-two prehistoric sites in the upper Yellow River valley
located in Guide, Jianzha, Hualong, Xunha and Minhe, Qinghai Province, China, including …

Issues surrounding the difficult task of correlating archaeological and climatic trajectories are
directly impacting the study of human-environmental interaction in Ancient China. We have …

Abstract White and Hamilton (J World Prehist 22: 357–97, 2009) have proposed a model for
the origin of the Southeast Asian Bronze Age founded on seven AMS radiocarbon …

Communities living in the grasslands of present day Inner Mongolia have experienced
dramatic social, economic and ecological changes over the past millennium. More recently …

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ARCHAEOLOGY OF EAST ASIA The Rise of Civilization in China, Korea and Japan Gina L …

Recently, interest in the archaeology of ethnogenesis has surged. This renewed interest
stems from innovations in the historical study of ethnogenesis, theoretical shifts favoring …

New data from the Tibetan Plateau allow us to understand how populations dealt with the
challenges of moving crops into altitudinally constrained environments. Despite the interest …