A lipid and proteomic study of ancient carbonized material (foodcrust) on pottery from the Taihu Lake region of eastern China has revealed the presence of rice, seafood consumption, various pottery ...

To the two Chinese tomb robbers who found it beneath a pile of rotting planks in 1934, the ragged piece of silk bearing strange, barely discernible characters and drawings looked like nothing more ...

Chinese archaeology : past, present, and future -- Environment and ecology -- Foragers and collectors in the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (24,000-9000 cal. BP) -- Domestication of plants and ...

Part I: Current Issues in Chinese Archaeology. Introduction: Investigating the Development and Nature of Complex Societies in Ancient China / Anne P. Underhill ; "Despoiled of the Garments of Her ...

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Li Xinwei (right), director of the Chinese School of Classical Studies at Athens, visits the Minoan mountain village site on the Greek island of Crete with Greek archaeologist Yiannis Papadatos last ...

Earlier this year, the Palace Museum in Beijing and the Shanghai Museum organized two separate exhibitions of artifacts recovered from the early Bronze Age Erlitou site. The two exhibitions shared a ...

On a balmy afternoon in late March, Chinese archaeologist Wang Jianxin descended from his flight at Tashkent International Airport, trailed by a team of 10 researchers. A tanned figure with flowing, ...

What archaeological discoveries are considered newsworthy by U.S. media outlets and audiences? A new analysis of "pop-science" reporting reveals topical and regional disparities, including an apparent ...

Under Xi Jinping, archaeology has become yet another domain through which the Chinese government has increasingly sought to expand its geopolitical influence. Evidence—whether objective or ...