supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41925009);the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)(YSBR-019);the National Social Science Foundation of China(Grant No.23&ZD268);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.42072033).
Over the past 15 years,the Paleoanthropological and Paleolithic team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology(IVPP),Chinese Academy of Sciences,has made significant progress in understanding...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41888101,41977380 and 42072033);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant Nos.XDB26000000 and XDA2004010102);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(Grant No.2019QZKK0601);the National Social Science Foundation of China(Grant No.21@WTK001);supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship Initiative Award(Grant No.2018VCA0016);the Je Tsongkhapa Endowment for Central and Inner Asian Archaeology at the University of Arizona。
The timing and mechanisms of the human occupation of the demanding high-altitude Tibetan Plateau environment are of great interest.Here,we report on our reinvestigations and dating of the Nwya Devu site,located nearly...
phased project achievement of the major project of the National Social Science Fund of China in 2018,"The Collection and Study of Archaeological Materials Excavated at the Jiangjialiang Cemetery"(18ZDA224).
Nihewan and Zhoukoudian are important areas where early humans and cultures originated and reproduced in northern China and even East Asia.Geologically,both site groups belong to the Haihe River valley;chronologically...
phased project achievement of the major project of the National Social Science Fund in China,"A Comprehensive Study of the Cultural Remains of the Paleolithic-Neolithic Transition Stage in the Northern Part of the Sea of Japan Rim"(20CKG003).
Lithic technology,subsistence modes,mobility strategies,and habitation modes in the northern part of Northeast China co-evolved during the Paleolithic-Neolithic transitional period,from the end of the Pleistocene thro...
National Social Science Foundation of China,No.19ZDA225;National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.41972185;The Project of Zhengzhou University,No.XKZDJC202006。
The Qinling Mountain Range(QMR)spans a large region in China and is an important area of hominin activities.Many Paleolithic sites are found in Bahe,South Luohe,and Hanjiang river valleys in the northern,eastern,and s...
Archaeologists call the long period between the appearance of human beings and the emergence of agriculture the Old Stone Age.The Paleolithic period accounts for more than 99.9 percent of the total length of human his...
National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.41972185,No.41690111。
The Lanshanmiao(LSM) Palaeolithic site,which was excavated in the summer of 2017 by the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology,is the only excavated palaeolithic site in central Zhejiang Prov...
This paper provides a schematic summary of the topics during the lecture series by Professor Nicholas J. Conard at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, focusing ...
National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.41572155,No.41690111;The Global Change Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China,No.2016YFA0600503
The Luonan Basin is a key region of early human settlement in Central China with more than 300 discovered Paleolithic sites. Artifact layer 1 of the Liuwan site was dated to approximately 0.6 million years (Ma) based ...
Discovered in 1962,the Columbeira cave has a Mousterian sequence dated between 101 and 35 Ka(U-series)and between 28,900 and 18,000 BP 14C.Excavations recovered abundant lithic implements and provided rich assemblage ...