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The transition to agriculture at Dadiwan, People's Republic of Chinaarticle 2010 • Bettinger, Robert L. et al.
Yellow River Early Neolithic • Asia > East Asia
Small-scale excavations date the different components at the site, and document a transition from foraging to low-intensity cultivation of millet. Microlithic artifacts also were found. Only site components 5 and 6 pertain to the Yellow River Early N...Settlement patterns reflected in assemblages from the Pleistocene/Holocene transition of north central Chinaarticle 1996 • Madsen, David B. et al.
North China Upper Paleolithic • Asia > East Asia
In this report on surveys in the region around the Helan Mountains, the results are compared to models of settlement and subsistence strategies during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the Great Basin of the United States....Agricultural origins and the isotopic identity of domestication in northern Chinaarticle 2009 • Barton, Loukas William et al.
Yellow River Early Neolithic • Asia > East Asia
The authors discuss their analysis and findings of stable isotopes on human and animal remains from the site of Dadiwan, and the implications for early plant and animal domestication in North China....