Subsistence and health in Middle Neolithic (9000–7000 BP) southern China: new evidence from the Dingsishan site

Early Holocene populations in southern China and Southeast Asia are generally considered to have continued practising hunting and gathering, while millet and rice cultivation developed to the north and east. Dingsishan, the oldest Holocene open-air site in South-east Asia, however, had yet to provid...

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Published in:Antiquity 2021-02, Vol.95 (379), p.13-26
Main Authors: Zhu, Simei, Li, Fajun, Chen, Xianglong, Fu, Xianguo, Hu, Yaowu
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Age
Analysis
Animals
Archaeology
Bones
Child development
Collagen
Cultivation
Culture
Diet
Excavation
Farming
Health aspects
Historic artifacts
Holocene
Hunting
Isotopes
Life expectancy
Neolithic
Proteins
Rice
Shellfish
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Analysis
Animals
Archaeology
Bones
Child development
Collagen
Cultivation
Culture
Diet
Excavation
Farming
Health aspects
Historic artifacts
Holocene
Hunting
Isotopes
Life expectancy
Neolithic
Proteins
Rice
Shellfish
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