China’s oldest water pipes, forming the earliest ceramic drainage system, were found at the neolithic walled site of Pingliangtai and were a communal effort, according to a new study published in Nature Water
PKU researchers reconstructed how the clay tiles from Qiaocun formed the earliest known composite-tiled roofs; the study is published in Scientific Reports
Large-scale genomic analysis documents the migrations of Ice Age hunter-gatherers over a period of 30,000 years
Genomic study of the Tarim Basin mummies in western China reveals an indigenous Bronze Age population that was genetically isolated but culturally cosmopolitan
