East Asian archaeology

Humans Made Pottery Long Before They Farmed — And Archaeology Is Catching Up

For more than a century, archaeology taught a simple rule: pottery belonged to farmers. Clay vessels were seen as a technological by-product of agriculture, sedentary…

DNA Study Reveals the True Origins and Ritual Secrets of Shimao, China’s Enigmatic Neolithic City

For decades, the stone walls of Shimao—one of the largest and most imposing Neolithic settlements in northern China—have guarded a silence that archaeology alone could…