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China Confirms the Oldest Prehistoric Site Around Lake Taihu: Baojia Dates Back 7,500–8,100 Years
When archaeologists gathered in November to review the latest field season in eastern China, one announcement immediately reshaped the early cultural history of the Yangtze River basin. New radiocarbon results from the Baojia site in Liyang City, Jiangsu Province have confirmed that the settlement predates all previously known human occupations around Lake Taihu, pushing the…
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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 not fully break. Now, a landmark genomic study published in Nature has begun to decode that silence, revealing who the people of Shimao were, how their society worked, and why…