For more than 150 years, global perspectives on the mobile to sedentary transition have
been framed by deeply entrenched categorical assumptions that have effectively blinded …

In East Asian archaeology, initial domestication and early dispersal of rice have
continuously attracted scholarly interest in the recent decade, which has generated …

Niche construction theory has played a prominent role in archaeology during the last
decade. However, the potential of niche construction in relation to agricultural development …

The emergence and intensification of transcontinental exchange during both the Late
Neolithic and Bronze Age profoundly influenced the social history of Eurasia. While scholars …

To reconstruct population dynamics in Taiwan between 5000 and 100 cal BP, we analysed
spatial-temporal changes in archaeological site abundance and size (area). The results …

Abstract The Hangzhou Bay region was home to the Shangshan complex (10,800–8600 cal
BP), one of the oldest Neolithic cultures in the world, and a centre of early agriculture based …

Asian rice (Oryza sativa L.) has become a model for understanding gene functions and
domestication in recent decades; however, its own diversification is still controversial …

The use of rice and millet has been uncovered at a few archaeological sites associated with
the Shuangdun Culture (ca. 7.3–6.8 ka BP) in the middle catchment of the Huai River …

1. Background From 11th to 15th February 2020 the Bei**g Branch Office of the Eurasia
Department, German Archaeological Institute (DAI), and the Institute of Geological Sciences …

Ambrosia artemisiifolia first appeared on the Eurasian continent in the 18th century. In the
south of the Russian Far East Ambrosia first appeared in the middle Holocene. The …