New evidence for regional pastoral practice and social complexity in the Eastern Tianshan Mountains in the first millennium BCE

Abstract Mobile pastoralism was a key lifeway in the Late Bronze and Iron Age of Northwest China and played a crucial role in the regional socio-cultural development, as well as the formation of transregional networks. In this paper we analyse the complete faunal assemblage from House F2 in Shirenzi...

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Main Authors: Yuxuan Wang, Francesca Monteith, Tongyuan Xi, Meng Ren, Daren Li, Songmei Hu, Jianxin Wang, Marcella Festa, Jian Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31489-9