Dispersal of crop-livestock and geographical-temporal variation of subsistence along the Steppe and Silk Roads across Eurasia in prehistory

G Dong, L Du, L Yang, M Lu, M Qiu, H Li, M Ma… - Science China Earth …, 2022 - Springer
The innovations of agricultural production and their extensive dispersal promoted the
transformation of human livelihoods and profoundly influenced the evolution of human-land …

A century of feasting studies

B Hayden, S Villeneuve - Annual Review of Anthropology, 2011 - annualreviews.org
The study of feasting has gradually emerged from early descriptions and bewilderment to
more sophisticated attempts to understand the logic and reasons behind the often lavish …

Sustainable intensification of millet–pig agriculture in Neolithic North China

J Yang, D Zhang, X Yang, W Wang, L Perry… - nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The emergence of complex societies represents one of the major developments of human
prehistory. Diverse agricultural strategies were implemented to produce the increased grain …

Nitrogen isotopes and the trophic level of humans in archaeology

REM Hedges, LM Reynard - Journal of archaeological science, 2007 - Elsevier
Human and domesticate animal bone collagen δ15N values in prehistory differ generally by
3‰ or more from Neolithic to post-Roman times in Northwest Europe, leading to an …

Agricultural origins and the isotopic identity of domestication in northern China

L Barton, SD Newsome, FH Chen, H Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - pnas.org
Stable isotope biochemistry (δ13C and δ15N) and radiocarbon dating of ancient human and
animal bone document 2 distinct phases of plant and animal domestication at the Dadiwan …

Earliest evidence for commensal processes of cat domestication

Y Hu, S Hu, W Wang, X Wu, FB Marshall… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - pnas.org
Domestic cats are one of the most popular pets globally, but the process of their
domestication is not well understood. Near Eastern wildcats are thought to have been …

New directions in bioarchaeology: Recent contributions to the study of human social identities

KJ Knudson, CM Stojanowski - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2008 - Springer
As a discipline that bridges the biological and social sciences, bioarchaeology has much to
contribute to a contextualized and theoretically sophisticated understanding of social …

Plants and people from the Early Neolithic to Shang periods in North China

GA Lee, GW Crawford, L Liu, X Chen - Proceedings of the National …, 2007 - pnas.org
An assemblage of charred plant remains collected from 26 sites in the Yiluo valley of North
China as part of an archaeological survey spans the period from the sixth millennium to …

Best practices for selecting samples, analyzing data, and publishing results in isotope archaeology

P Vaiglova, NA Lazar, EA Stroud, E Loftus… - Quaternary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Isotopic analysis has become one of the most popular arenas of archaeological science, in
part due to its versatility to uncover intriguing insights from a range of organic and inorganic …

[KNJIGA][B] The archaeology of early China

G Shelach-Lavi - 2015 - books.google.com
" This volume aims to satisfy a pressing need for an updated account of Chinese
archaeology. The volume's time frame extends from the earliest peopling of China to the …