Xiaohong Wu

TL;DR: Data sets from the northeastern Tibetan Plateau are reported indicating that the first villages were established only by 5200 calendar years before the present, indicating that a novel agropastoral economy facilitated year-round living at higher altitudes since 3600 cal yr B.P.

TL;DR: Investigating when barley cultivation dispersed from southwest Asia to regions of eastern Asia and how the eastern spring barley evolved in this context indicates that the eastern dispersals of wheat and barley were distinct in both space and time.

TL;DR: The dating of the early pottery from Xianrendong Cave, Jiangxi Province, China, and the micromorphology of the stratigraphic contexts of the pottery sherds and radiocarbon samples show that pottery was first made and used 10 millennia or more before the emergence of agriculture.

TL;DR: Genetic differentiation in this region was higher in the past than the present, which reflects a major episode of admixture involving northern East Asian ancestry spreading across southern East Asia after the Neolithic, thereby transforming the genetic ancestry of southern China.

TL;DR: The radiocarbon ages of the sediments based on analyses of charcoal and bone collagen show that the age of the ancient pottery ranges between 18,300 and 15,430 cal BP, which provides some of the earliest evidence for pottery making in China.