Xiaonong Hu

Grinding en route to sedentism: Plant processing in the 8 ka-BP southern Mongolian Plateau, China

Plant food exploitation has long been considered one of the most significant windows to understanding the process of sedentism. Two early Neolithic sites, Yumin (ca. 8,400-7,600 cal BP) and Simagou (ca. 7,500-7,000 cal BP), witnessed the earliest onset of a sedentary lifeway in t...