Evolution of human–environmental interactions in China from the Late Paleolithic to the Bronze Age

From ecological opportunism to multi-cropping: Mapping food globalisation in prehistory

(2019) Xinyi Liu et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Holocene landscape dynamics and long-term population trends in the Levant

(2019) Alessio Palmisano et al.   HOLOCENE

Millet manuring as a driving force for the Late Neolithic agricultural expansion of north China

(2018) Xin Wang et al.   Scientific Reports

Great flood in the middle-lower Yellow River reaches at 4000 a BP inferred from accurately-dated stalagmite records

(2018) Liangcheng Tan et al.   Science Bulletin

Impact of climate change on the transition of Neanderthals to modern humans in Europe

(2018) Michael Staubwasser et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Anthropogenic modification of vegetated landscapes in southern China from 6,000 years ago

(2018) Zhongjing Cheng et al.   Nature Geoscience

The earliest human occupation of the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau 40 thousand to 30 thousand years ago

(2018) X. L. Zhang et al.   SCIENCE

Prehistoric trans-continental cultural exchange in the Hexi Corridor, northwest China

(2017) Guanghui Dong et al.   HOLOCENE

Wood types and human impact between 4300 and 2400 yr BP in the Hexi Corridor, NW China, inferred from charcoal records

(2017) Hui Shen et al.   HOLOCENE

Prehistoric evolution of the dualistic structure mixed rice and millet farming in China

(2017) Keyang He et al.   HOLOCENE

A technological and morphological study of Late Paleolithic ostrich eggshell beads from Shuidonggou, North China

(2017) Yi Wei et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Environmental reconstruction and dating of Shizitan 29, Shanxi Province: An early microblade site in north China

(2017) Yanhua Song et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Nomadic ecology shaped the highland geography of Asia’s Silk Roads

(2017) Michael D. Frachetti et al.   NATURE

Late Neolithic phytolith and charcoal records of human activities and vegetation change in Shijiahe culture, Tanjialing site, China

(2017) Xiao Hong Zhu et al.   PLoS One

Holocene fluctuations in human population demonstrate repeated links to food production and climate

(2017) Andrew Bevan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Early human impacts on vegetation on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau during the middle to late Holocene

(2017) Xiao-zhong Huang et al.   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Depositional evidence of palaeofloods during 4.0–3.6 ka BP at the Jinsha site, Chengdu Plain, China

(2017) Tianjiao Jia et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Holocene fire on the northeast Tibetan Plateau in relation to climate change and human activity

(2017) Yunfa Miao et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Dating Human Settlement in the East-Central Tibetan Plateau during the Late Holocene

(2017) LeLe Ren et al.   RADIOCARBON

On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives

(2017) Christopher J. Bae et al.   SCIENCE

Rapid climate change-induced collapse of hunter-gatherer societies in the lower Mississippi River valley between ca. 3300 and 2780 cal yr BP

(2017) Tristram R. Kidder et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Exploring the history of cultural exchange in prehistoric Eurasia from the perspectives of crop diffusion and consumption

(2017) GuangHui Dong et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

The 5.5 cal ka BP climate event, population growth, circumscription and the emergence of the earliest complex societies in China

(2017) WenXiang Wu et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Spatial and temporal distribution of Neolithic sites in coastal China: Sea level changes, geomorphic evolution and human adaption

(2017) HongBo Zheng et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Environmental and technological effects on ancient social evolution at different spatial scales

(2017) GuangHui Dong et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

The spatial pattern of farming and factors influencing it during the Peiligang culture period in the middle Yellow River valley, China

(2017) Can Wang et al.   Science Bulletin

Copper content in anthropogenic sediments as a tracer for detecting smelting activities and its impact on environment during prehistoric period in Hexi Corridor, Northwest China

(2016) Yishi Yang et al.   HOLOCENE

The transition of human subsistence strategies in relation to climate change during the Bronze Age in the West Liao River Basin, Northeast China

(2016) Xin Jia et al.   HOLOCENE

Spatiotemporal distribution patterns of archaeological sites in China during the Neolithic and Bronze Age: An overview

(2016) Dominic Hosner et al.   HOLOCENE

The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations

(2016) Hai Cheng et al.   NATURE

Late Pleistocene climate drivers of early human migration

(2016) Axel Timmermann et al.   NATURE

Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene

(2016) Yadvinder Malhi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Chronology and subsistence strategy of Nuomuhong Culture in the Tibetan Plateau

(2016) Guanghui Dong et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Middle Holocene rapid environmental changes and human adaptation in Greece

(2016) Laurent Lespez et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

7000-year human legacy of elevation-dependent European fire regimes

(2016) B. Vannière et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Dietary shift after 3600 cal yr BP and its influencing factors in northwestern China: Evidence from stable isotopes

(2016) Minmin Ma et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The emergence, development and regional differences of mixed farming of rice and millet in the upper and middle Huai River Valley, China

(2016) YuZhang Yang et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Technology diffusion and population migration reflected in blade technologies in northern China in the Late Pleistocene

(2016) Feng Li et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Siberia and neighboring regions in the Last Glacial Maximum: did people occupy northern Eurasia at that time?

(2016) Yaroslav V. Kuzmin et al.   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Hydrological changes facilitated early rice farming in the lower Yangtze River Valley in China: A molecular isotope analysis

(2015) Robert Patalano et al.   GEOLOGY

Spatial pattern and temporal trend of prehistoric human sites and its driving factors in Henan Province, Central China

(2015) Zhongxuan Li et al.   Journal of Geographical Sciences

Defining the Anthropocene

(2015) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

Groundwater sapping as the cause of irreversible desertification of Hunshandake Sandy Lands, Inner Mongolia, northern China

(2015) Xiaoping Yang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biogeography of the Anthropocene

(2015) Kenneth R. Young   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal

(2015) Jan Zalasiewicz et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

The modern human colonization of western Eurasia: when and where?

(2015) Jean-Jacques Hublin   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation

(2015) Fahu Chen et al.   Scientific Reports

Archaeology of the Anthropocene in the Yellow River region, China, 8000–2000 cal. BP

(2014) Yijie Zhuang et al.   HOLOCENE

Reconstructing regional population fluctuations in the European Neolithic using radiocarbon dates: a new case-study using an improved method

(2014) Adrian Timpson et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Early agriculture and crop transmission among Bronze Age mobile pastoralists of Central Eurasia

(2014) R. Spengler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Inaccessible Andean sites reveal human-induced weathering in grazed soils

(2014) Felix Heitkamp et al.   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Human dispersal and interaction during the spread of microblade industries in East Asia

(2014) Shinji Kato   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Prehistoric demographic fluctuations in China inferred from radiocarbon data and their linkage with climate change over the past 50,000 years

(2014) Can Wang et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Interaction of Climate Change and Agency in the Collapse of Civilizations ca. 2300–2000 BC

(2014) Malcolm H. Wiener   RADIOCARBON

Agriculture facilitated permanent human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau after 3600 B.P.

(2014) F. H. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Climate changes and human–environment interactions in the Apulia region of southeastern Italy during the Neolithic period

(2013) Girolamo Fiorentino et al.   HOLOCENE

Archaeobotanical evidence of millets in the Indian subcontinent with some observations on their role in the Indus civilization

(2013) Anil K. Pokharia et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The spatiotemporal pattern of the Majiayao cultural evolution and its relation to climate change and variety of subsistence strategy during late Neolithic period in Gansu and Qinghai Provinces, northwest China

(2013) Guanghui Dong et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years

(2013) S. A. Marcott et al.   SCIENCE

Zooarchaeological perspective on the Broad Spectrum Revolution in the Pleistocene-Holocene transitional period, with evidence from Shuidonggou Locality 12, China

(2013) Yue Zhang et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

The impact of prehistoric mining activities on the environment: a multidisciplinary study at the fen Schwarzenbergmoos (Brixlegg, Tyrol, Austria)

(2013) Elisabeth Breitenlechner et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Evidence for a Neolithic Age fire-irrigation paddy cultivation system in the lower Yangtze River Delta, China

(2012) Linchao Hu et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Spatial and temporal variety of prehistoric human settlement and its influencing factors in the upper Yellow River valley, Qinghai Province, China

(2012) Guanghui Dong et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Climate change, adaptive cycles, and the persistence of foraging economies during the late Pleistocene/Holocene transition in the Levant

(2012) A. M. Rosen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Early millet use in northern China

(2012) X. Yang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mapping of the spatial and temporal distribution of archaeological sites of northern China during the Neolithic and Bronze Age

(2012) Mayke Wagner et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Human Evolution Out of Africa: The Role of Refugia and Climate Change

(2012) J. R. Stewart et al.   SCIENCE

The use of summed radiocarbon probability distributions in archaeology: a review of methods

(2011) Alan N. Williams   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans

(2011) Eline D. Lorenzen et al.   NATURE

Rapid, global demographic expansions after the origins of agriculture

(2011) C. R. Gignoux et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Late Pleistocene intensification technologies in Northern China

(2011) Robert G. Elston et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Land degradation during the Bronze Age in Hexi Corridor (Gansu, China)

(2011) Zhou Xinying et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility

(2011) U. Buntgen et al.   SCIENCE

Hunter-gatherer response to late Holocene climatic variability in northern and central Australia

(2010) Alan N. Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Human evolution in a variable environment: the amplifier lakes of Eastern Africa

(2010) Martin H. Trauth et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

(Pre-) historic changes in natural and anthropogenic heavy metals deposition inferred from two contrasting Swiss Alpine lakes

(2010) Florian Thevenon et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Agricultural origins and the isotopic identity of domestication in northern China

(2009) L. Barton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Earliest domestication of common millet (Panicum miliaceum) in East Asia extended to 10,000 years ago

(2009) H. Lu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Changes of environments and human activity at the Sannai-Maruyama ruins in Japan during the mid-Holocene Hypsithermal climatic interval

(2009) Hodaka Kawahata et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Domestication Process and Domestication Rate in Rice: Spikelet Bases from the Lower Yangtze

(2009) D. Q Fuller et al.   SCIENCE

Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behavior

(2009) A. Powell et al.   SCIENCE