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

H. Chen, F.; H. Dong, G.; J. Zhang, D.; Y. Liu, X.; Jia, X.; B. An, C.; M. Ma, M.; W. Xie, Y.; Barton, L.; Y. Ren, X.; J. Zhao, Z.; H. Wu, X.; K. Jones, M.

doi:10.1126/science.1259172

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

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Authors:

F. H. Chen

G. H. Dong

D. J. Zhang

Abstract

Colonizing the roof of the world Humans only settled permanently on the Tibetan plateau about 3600 years ago. Chen et al. examined archaeological crop remains unearthed in northeastern Tibet, which elucidate the timing of agricultural settlement. Although much earlier traces of humans in Tibet have ...

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