Introduction: What is early Chinese history? / Paul R. Goldin -- Part I: Chronology -- Main issues in the study of the Chinese neolithic / Gideon Shelach-Lavi -- Of millets and wheat: diet and health ...

"This is the first English-language monograph on the early history of cartography in China. Its chief players are three maps found in tombs that date from the fourth to the second century BCE and ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

Researchers digitally mapped ancient Chinese tombs and discovered that their distribution mirrors shifts in political stability, population movements, and natural geography. Peaceful, prosperous eras ...

Kunyu Wanguo Quantu and maritime artefacts prove China explored the world earlier than Eurocentric accounts suggest, scholar argues Scholar and author Sheng-Wei Wang discusses how studying an ancient ...

A 14-year-old boy from central China has turned his bedroom into a small museum dedicated to ancient Chinese history and literature. Xie Zhaoyutong, a secondary school student from Henan province, has ...

Archaeologists in Shaoxing, in East China's Zhejiang Province, have uncovered hundreds of tinned iron armor plates dating back 1,700 years to the Three Kingdoms period. The discovery, made at the ...