Archaeological Research in Asia 

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reconstruct the hitherto unrecorded economy of high mountain pastoralists who lived at the site from the mid-3rd to early 1st millennium B.C. They argue that within the broad dynamics of mountain pastoralism there is local variability as shown through multi-season residence, farming, and craft production.

TL;DR: In this paper, a bead typology and chronology of maritime bead trade subject within two main periods of Quseir occupation were presented. But they did not consider the possible Indo-Pacific origin of some beads.

TL;DR: Shimao as mentioned in this paper was a prehistorical complex settlement system developed in the north Loess Plateau, a region previously regarded as the frontier of Chinese civilization, and was composed of a central palatial terrace surrounded by two layers of stone enclosures.

TL;DR: In this paper, a wide variety of glass beads from 7th to 17th century southern, eastern and western Africa are discussed and results of chemical analysis of the glass used to make them are discussed.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper reviewed published stable isotope data for 645 human samples from 36 sites in northern China, dating from 3000 to 2000 BC to the sixth century AD, summarizing the current evidence for dietary changes since the appearance of wheat.