Villages are homes for most rural residents and powerhouses of the rural economy, with a
vital role in reducing rural-urban disparity. It raises the need to explore the driving forces of …

This paper reviews recent archaeological research on human-environment interaction in the
Holocene, taking continental China as its geographic focus. As China is large …

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 …

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 …

Scholarship on human–environment interactions tends to fall under two headings: collapse
or resilience. While both offer valid explanatory frameworks for human–environment …

This article builds on recent archaeological theorizing about early complex societies to
analyze the political anthropology of Neolithic and Bronze Age China in a culture-specific …

Archaeological research has by now revealed a great deal of variation in the way early
complex societies, or chiefdoms, developed. This variation is widely recognized, but our …

Recent interdisciplinary studies, combining scientific techniques such as ancient DNA
analysis with humanistic re-evaluations of the transcultural value of bronze, have presented …

Abstract Within the Dongbei region, Jilin has been left mostly unknown to international
archaeological communities, compared to Liaoning and eastern Inner Mongolia. The …

Between 2012 and 2016, a systematic regional survey was conducted around the **nhuang
and Yueliang Lakes in northwest Jilin, Northeast China. This paper investigates the results …