The Middle to Late Holocene spread of agropastoralism throughout Eurasia not only
subjected domesticated taxa to stressors associated with novel environments but also …

Agropastoralism has prevailed in Inner Asia since the Bronze Age. It is an optimal
subsistence strategy of inhabitants for adaptation to arid marginal environment. However …

丝绸之路国内段主要包括丝路东段(西安至敦煌) 和丝路中段(新疆地区), 是丝路文明演化的主体
地段, 也是古丝绸之路开通之前跨大陆交流的关键地段. 丝路东段和中段降水的时空格局存在 …

The areas along the Ancient Silk Road (ASR) in Northwest China encompass the eastern
section of the ASR (from **'an to Dunhuang, EASR) and the middle section of the ASR …

The Liujiawa site is located in the Agricultural–Nomadic Transitional Zone in Northern China
(ANTZNC), inhabited during the early Spring and Autumn Period (770–476 bc). Little is …

Oases are major foci of human activities in arid regions. Research on the interactions
between past climate change, oasis evolution, and human activities may provide an …

Mobile pastoralism was a key lifeway in the Late Bronze and Iron Age of Northwest China
and played a crucial role in the regional socio-cultural development, as well as the formation …

**njiang, in Northwestern China, was a key point in the prehistoric trans-Eurasian network of
exchange and played an important role in facilitating the dispersal of crops across Eurasia …

Identifying and explaining changes in the prehistoric material and social world is one of the
greatest research interests in archaeology, palaeoclimate and environmental science. In the …

Urbanization is one of the milestones in the development of human society. Many regions in
the southern parts of 'the old world'demonstrating an early emergence of agriculture also …