Archaeological discoveries often surface as fragments, leaving researchers to reconstruct stories from scattered traces. The Xiatang site in Zhejiang Province offers something far rarer. Excavations ...

Foxtail millet cultivated on the northern Loess Plateau, in present-day northern Shaanxi province. [Photo provided to China ...

SHIMAO, CHINA—La Brújula Verde reports that an extensive genetic study of human remains found at the site of Shimao in Shaanxi Province is providing new insights into the population of one of ancient ...

Scientists in China have discovered one of the oldest known matrilineal societies—where family lines and inheritance are traced through a community’s women, not its men. Archaeologists unearthed the ...

Research shows wild boar were present in human settlements in the Yangtze River Delta thousands of years ago Research by archaeologists from Chinese and US institutes suggests that pigs were already ...

HENAN PROVINCE, CHINA—According to a Phys.org report, archaeologist Xingtao Wei of Zhengzhou University and his colleagues analyzed residues preserved on three 8,000-year-old pottery tripods recovered ...

Reconstruction of the production-consumption process involving pottery and food in early Shangshan culture. (A) Plant procurement: collecting wild plants and harvesting rice; (B) plant processing: for ...

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A collaborative study has uncovered evidence of rice beer dating back approximately 10,000 years at the Shangshan site in Zhejiang Province, China, providing new insights into the origins of alcoholic ...