Agriculture facilitated permanent human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau after 3600 B.P.

Chen, Fahu; Dong, Guanghui; Zhang, Dingyun; Y. Liu, X.; Jia, Xin; B. An, C.; M., M.; Xie, Yaowen; Barton, Loukas; Ren, Xiaojun; Zhao, Zhijun; Wu, Xiaohong; K. Jones, Martin

doi:10.1126/science.1259172

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Agriculture facilitated permanent human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau after 3600 B.P.

Published in Science • Nov 21, 2014

Authors:

Fahu Chen

Guanghui Dong

Dingyun Zhang

Abstract

Our understanding of when and how humans adapted to living on the Tibetan Plateau at altitudes above 2000 to 3000 meters has been constrained by a paucity of archaeological data. Here we report data sets from the northeastern Tibetan Plateau indicating that the first villages were established only b...

Subject

Plateau (mathematics)

Agriculture

Geography

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