Evidence suggests that China's "cradle of civilization" experienced marked climate disasters and social upheavals during the mid-late Holocene (around 3,000 years ago). However, the direct causes and ...

Current evidence suggests that humans had the capacity for spoken language at least 130,000 years ago. Ever the ...

Throughout human history, our understanding of the past has been reset countless times based on what we think we know at the time. The same goes for other incredible archaeological discoveries that ...

Stretching across two-thirds of our planet, Asia harbors secrets that span millions of years of human history. From the ...

Combining the writing on the bones with paleoclimate reconstructions, the team found how typhoon activity helped shift the cultural makeup of China.

Scholars used China’s “oracle bones” to help decipher the collapse of the Shang dynasty. Combined with paleoclimate reconstructions, the team found an intense increase in typhoon activity helped shift ...

One of the world’s oldest surviving collections of writing, scratched into ‘oracle bones’ by Shang dynasty chroniclers more than three millennia ago, is finally giving up its secrets. Using a powerful ...