Over the span of human history, tools to process plant food have been ever-changing. Recently, researchers discovered that the combination of grinding slabs and rollers in the middle and lower Yellow ...

Scientists from Peking University have uncovered new genetic evidence that sheds light on how prehistoric people in China interacted, migrated, and built their communities. Led by Professors Huang ...

Archaeologists have revealed a "unique" prehistoric burial featuring the remains of a child whose skeleton displays evidence of unusual marks on its bones. The child's remains were discovered at an ...

A study finds evidence of alcohol production techniques in Neolithic pottery from China. Previous studies have found that the diversity of specialized pottery containers in China increased between ...

Eight thousand years ago, there was no roadside liquor outlet stocked with cheap beer. But humans living in China came up with a pretty good workaround to get their fix of low-proof booze. It may have ...

The 5,000-year-old skeleton, designated M53, with physical dysplasia. Image: (S. E. Halcrow et al., 2019) The discovery of a 5,000-year-old skeleton of a young adult who had serious physical ...

A human skeleton discovered in the Chinese province of Henan is providing new information on the identification of dwarfism in the archaeological record as well as on disability and difference in the ...