Seasonal movements of Bronze Age transhumant pastoralists in western Xinjiang.

The paper explores seasonal movements of Bronze Age mobile pastoralists in the western Tianshan mountainous region of Xinjiang, China. Fieldwork by a team from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Science (CASS) and the University of Sydney, Australia have identified cyclica...

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Main Authors: Peter Jia, Gino Caspari, Alison Betts, Bahaa Mohamadi, Timo Balz, Dexin Cong, Hui Shen, Qi Meng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240739