2025年01月22日

Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University publishes new evidence of tropical rainforest adaptation in South Asia from the Late Pleistocene to the mid-Holocene

In recent years, the adaptation to extreme environments during the dispersal of modern humans has attracted much attention. For example, when and how modern humans expanded to high-altitude, permafrost, desert, and tropical rainforest environments is at the forefront of archaeological debate. Archaeological evidence from Sri Lanka, located in the Indian Ocean, shows that evidence of modern human fossils, microliths, bone tools, and symbolic ornaments appeared around 40,000 years ago, which fully demonstrates that the tropical rainforests of Sri Lanka have special significance for early human foraging patterns. To further understand the continuation and change of the tropical rainforest foraging tradition represented by microliths from the end of the Pleistocene to the early and middle Holocene...

2025年01月14日

Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University publishes new evidence of continuous occupation of Paleolithic cave sites in Southwest China.

Since Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS3), significant changes in global climate, population dynamics, and human behavioral patterns have occurred in many regions of the world. With the increasing amount of archaeological evidence, our understanding of human species and technological trajectories in the Late Paleolithic of East Asia has become increasingly complex, while in southwestern China, many key questions remain unclear. Recently, the Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University published an article titled "New Evidence of Human Occupation in Southwest China Since 44,800 Years ago" in the international journal Lithic Technology.

2025年01月01日

The Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University, in collaboration with multiple international institutions, is constructing a strontium isotope map of Africa to trace the geographical origins of victims of the transatlantic slave trade.

Population migration has played a significant role in the development of human civilization, shaping global ethnic and cultural patterns. The transatlantic slave trade from the 15th to the 19th centuries was the largest forced migration event in global history, transporting at least 15 million Africans to the Americas and Europe, profoundly altering the ethnic structure and political landscape of Africa, the Americas, and Europe today. Although extensive historical documents record the scale of transportation and port information of the slave trade, the geographical origins and life experiences of enslaved individuals have been difficult to ascertain, which has long been a concern for global archaeologists and historians. Strontium isotope analysis technology (87Sr/86Sr...

2024年12月20日

Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University publishes research on Fayence beads, revealing cultural interactions in the Yanyuan area.

Recently, the Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University, together with Chengdu Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and other institutions, published a research paper in the international journal Archaeometry titled "Faience beads excavated from Laolongtou cemetery, Yanyuan: new evidence of the cultural exchange between the south-western and north-western parts of China." This study explores the faience beads unearthed from the Laolongtou cemetery in Yanyuan, Sichuan, from the perspectives of technology and cultural exchange. Professor Hai-chao Li from the Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University, is the corresponding author, and a master's student from the School of Archaeology and Museology, Sichuan University...

2024年12月18日

The Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University published findings revealing the production model of bronze arrowheads in the State of Chu.

Recently, Professor Li Haichao's team at the Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University, published an article titled "The production of bronze weapons in the Chu state: a case study of bronze arrowheads excavated from the Yuwan cemetery in Hubei, China," focusing on the manufacturing process, alloy ratios, and mineral sources of bronze arrowheads unearthed from the Yuwan cemetery in Hubei. Based on this research, they preliminarily discussed the production model of bronze weapons in the Chu state. The article was published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. The Yuwan cemetery is located on a slope in Leidou Village, Zengji Town, Shayang County, Jingmen City, Hubei Province...

2024年11月26日

The Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University was invited to present research progress and prospects on reconstructing ancient and modern human population genetic genealogy based on ancestral recombination graphs.

On August 30, 2024, the Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University, and the Yuan Huijun/He Guanglin research team of the Rare Disease Research Institute of West China Hospital, Sichuan University, in collaboration with the Liu Chao院士 research team of the Guangdong Provincial Drug Experiment Technology Center (Guangdong Branch of the National Drug Laboratory), published a review article in the journal *Hereditas* entitled "Research progress and prospects of reconstructing ancient and modern human population genetic genealogy based on ancestral recombination graph". This review introduces the theoretical basis of ARG reconstruction, summarizes the early applications of genetic genealogy and the methods and progress of constructing ARG, and further discusses the application potential of ARG and the challenges and future prospects of reconstructing ARG, aiming to...

2024年11月20日

Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University published a review on new paradigms and research progress of mitochondrial genome research in the context of large-scale population genome sequencing in SCLS.

On September 17, 2024, Professor Yuan Huijun and Associate Researcher He Guanglin's team from the Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University, and the Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, in collaboration with Academician Liu Chao's research team from the Guangdong Provincial Drug Experiment Technology Center (Guangdong Branch of the National Drug Laboratory), and Professor Tang Renkuan's team from the School of Basic Medical Sciences, Chongqing Medical University, published a review paper titled 'Sequencing and characterizing human mitochondrial genomes in the biobank-based genomic research paradigm' in 《SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences》. This study systematically reviews...

2024年11月12日

The archaeological team from the Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University published a research article in the international journal Archaeological Research in Asia.

Recently, the Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University team published a latest research article titled "The Longwangshan cemetery and the change in funerary practices in middle Yangzi during the late Neolithic Age, China" in the internationally renowned archaeological journal Archaeological Research in Asia (《龙王山墓地与新石器时代晚期长江中游丧葬行为的转变》). Based on the analysis of archaeological materials from the Longwangshan cemetery, the article explores the transformation process and significance of funerary practices from the Youziling culture to the Qujialing culture in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River during the late Neolithic Age...

2024年09月27日

Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University publishes new perspectives in Land magazine on hunter-gatherers permanently occupying high-altitude areas of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Over the past decade, when humans permanently occupied the high-altitude areas of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and no longer migrated between high and low lands has been the focus of archaeological attention. The mainstream view is that permanent human occupation of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau became possible only after the introduction of wheat agriculture around 3600 years ago. In response to this major academic question, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau archaeological team of Sichuan University and the Cultural Relics Research Institute of Tibet Autonomous Region have jointly carried out a series of field archaeological works in the eastern, central, and western parts of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in recent years. On the one hand, it reveals the contribution of Neolithic people in the southeastern margin of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to permanent occupation at an earlier stage (around 5000 years ago), on the other hand...

2024年09月27日

Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University publishes new perspectives in Land magazine on hunter-gatherers permanently occupying high-altitude areas of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Over the past decade, when humans permanently occupied the high-altitude areas of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and no longer migrated between high and low lands has been the focus of archaeological attention. The mainstream view is that permanent human occupation of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau became possible only after the introduction of wheat agriculture around 3600 years ago. In response to this major academic question, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau archaeological team of Sichuan University and the Cultural Relics Research Institute of Tibet Autonomous Region have jointly carried out a series of field archaeological works in the eastern, central, and western parts of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in recent years. On the one hand, it reveals the contribution of Neolithic people in the southeastern margin of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to permanent occupation at an earlier stage (around 5000 years ago), on the other hand...