Submit a Manuscript to the Journal, World Archaeology, by Dec 12 for a Special Issue on:

A century of Chinese archaeology: reflections and prospects

Great news! The journal Advances in Archaeomaterials is now indexed in the DOAJ! The journal publishes synthesis of recent advances in the field as well as new original research and translations of articles originally published in languages other than English to make them available to a wider audience. Special issues are also considered.

Sika deer in Bronze Age Guanzhong: sustainable wildlife exploitation in ancient China?

Authors: Yue Li, Chengrui Zhang, Honghai Chen, Zhen Wang and Yaopeng Qian 

The spatio-temporal structure of the Lateglacial to early Holocene transition reconstructed from the pollen record of Lake Suigetsu and its precise correlation with other key global archives: Implications for palaeoclimatology and archaeology

Large-scale whole-genome resequencing unravels the domestication history of Cannabis sativa 

Authors: Guangpeng Ren, Xu Zhang, Ying Li, Kate Ridout, Martha L. Serrano-Serrano, Yongzhi Yang, Ai Liu, Gudasalamani Ravikanth, Muhammad Ali Nawaz, Abdul Samad Mumtaz, Nicolas Salamin, and Luca Fumagall

Population dynamics in the Japanese Archipelago since the Pleistocene revealed by the complete mitochondrial genome sequences

Authors: Fuzuki Mizuno, Jun Gojobori, Masahiko Kumagai, Hisao Baba, Yasuhiro Taniguchi, Osamu Kondo, Masami Matsushita, Takayuki Matsushita, Fumihiko Matsuda, Koichiro Higasa,  Michiko Hayashi, Li Wang, Kunihiko Kurosaki and Shintaroh Ueda

3000-year-old shark attack victim from Tsukumo shell-mound, Okayama, Japan

Authors: J. Alyssa White, George H. Burgess, Masato Nakatsukasa, Mark J. Hudson, John Pouncett, Soichiro Kusaka, Minoru Yoneda, Yasuhiro Yamada, and Rick J.Schultinga

Two Sides of the Same Coin: A Combination of Archaeometallurgy and Environmental Archaeology to Re-Examine the Hypothesis of Yunnan as the Source of Highly Radiogenic Lead in Early Dynastic China

Authors: Ruiliang Liu, A. Mark Pollard, Feiya Lv, Limin Huan, Shanjia Zhang and Minmin Ma 

Stratigraphy and chronology of the palaeolithic industry in Bose Basin, South China: Excavation of Gaolingpo

Authors: Guangmao Xie, Xiaoying Chen, Dawei Li, Minghui Yu, Zhanghua Hu, Huayu Lu, Qiuyan Huang and Qiang Lin

Earliest arrival of millet in the South China coast dating back to 5,500 years ago

Authors: Jinqi Daiab, Xipeng Cai, Jianhui Jin, Wei Ge, Yunming Huang, Wei Wu, Taoqin Xia, Fusheng Li, Xinxin Zuo