Late quaternary climate change and human adaptation in arid China [electronic resource] / [edited by] David B. Madsen, Chen Fa-Hu and Gao Xing.

Due to political pressures, prior to the 1990s little was known about the nature of human foraging adaptations in the deserts, grasslands, and mountains of north western China during the last glacial period. Even less was known about the transition to agriculture that followed. Now open to foreign v...

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