The world's oldest evidence for purposeful human mummification comes from Southeast Asia, where people smoke-dried their ancestors' corpses 10,000 years ago.

New insights into ancient East Asian hominins have arrived due to several tools detected in the region. These tools were found buried in oxygen-poor clay sediments on the shores of an ancient lake in ...

List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface: To Lothar / Li Shuicheng -- Introduction: Ritual and Economy in East Asian Archaeology / Rowan Flad and Anke Hein -- Uncovering disguised social ...

Ancient humans in northern China endured dramatic climate changes, creating new tools, hunting methods, and strategies to ...

An examination of charring on skeletons showed signs they had been exposed to low heat over long periods of time, which would ...