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Animals, Animal Products, Trees, and Domestication

Alligator – Alligator Sinensis, Alligators,

Domestication/Carts – The Domestication of Animals, Chariot, Who Invented the Wheel,

Foods – Making Jerky in Your Smoker, The Best Ways to Use Bear Fat,

Cattle – Neolithic Chinese People First Tamed Cattle,

Horse – Herbs for the Nervous Horse, The Politico-Economic Impact of the Horse on Old World Cultures: An Overview, Disposal Options for Equines, Horse Herbs – Calming Mix,

Camel – The Importance of the Camel in Desert Ecosystems in Relation to Cart Transportation,

Reindeer/Deer – Reindeer Butchery, Using the Whole Deer, Caribou & Reindeer, Daily Activity Rhythm and Time Budget of Sichuan Sika Deer,

Sheep - Early History of Chinese Domestic Sheep, Which Came First: Sheep or Goat?, Winter Preparation – Sheep Care, Sheep Urination Frequency,

Red Pandas - Red Pandas in the Sichuan Mountains,

Fish – Protecting Mongolia’s Last Taimen, Sturgeon, Hucho Taimen, Chinese Paddlefish, Cleaning Sturgeon,

Trees / Wood - Chinese Red Birch, 2,700-Year-Old Tree Blooms in Sichuan, Submerge Wood in a Barrel to Improve It.

Anthropology, Genetics and Migration

Genealogy – Newly Released Genomes From Neolithic East Asia, Earliest (and Basal) Haplogroup N-L1026, from East Siberia

Human Sacrifice - Problems in the Study of Early Chinese Ritual and Human Sacrifice 

Mosuo People and Matrilineal/Matriarchal Societies – Perspectives of Traditional Culture of the Matrilineal Mosuo of Lugu Lake, China’s Kingdom of Women, The Mosuo People of Lugu Lake, Asias Matrilineal Societies Where Women Rule, A Look at Five Matriarchal Societies Throughout History, The Twilight of the Last Kingdom of Women, They Rule at Lugu Lake.

Character’s Names

Chinese Names, Top 200 Chinese Boy Names, Top 200 Chinese Girl Names, Scythian Submitted Names, 100+ Beautiful Mongolian Names.

Climate

Effects of Climate Change and Fire on the Middle and Late Holocene Forest History in Yenisei Siberia,

Revised Holocene Temperature Record Affirms Role of Greenhouse Gases in Recent Millennia,

Pollen-Based Seasonal Temperature Reconstruction in Northeast China Over the Past 10,000 Years,

Holocene Weak Monsoon Intervals Indicated by Low Lake Levels at Hulun,

Manzhouli Climate,

Impacts of Climate Change/Variability on the Streamflow in the Yellow River Basin,

South-east Asia –An Environmental History.

Health & Medicine

Magic Mushrooms - Fly Agaric Mushroom, Why Reindeer Love Magic Mushrooms, Amanita Muscaria Urine,

Trepanation - Curiosities of Trepanation, Trephination - What Is It, Its Use, and More, Trepanation along the Yellow River Basin, An Illustrated History of Trepanation, 

Anatomy - Anatomy, Head and Neck, Scalp, Traumatic Brain Injury, Natural Remedies for Migraine Relief,

Herbs & Methanol -  Wood Alcohol, Methanol, Butterbur, Mandrake, The Antibacterial Effect of Sage Extract,

Tattoo - Early Chinese Tattoo, Crime and punishment in Japan during the Edo Period.

Manufacturing/Technology

Fire – How to Carry Fire,

Sewing Needles – Sewing Needles Reveal the Roots of Fashion,

Pottery – Banpo Pottery Symbols, Potter's Wheel Spins Out Ancient Culture (Majiayao), How to Make Pottery,

Bronze & Copper – Copper and Bronze in Ancient China, Zijinshan Copper-Gold Mine, Ganbei Metallogenic Belt, Tonglushan Ancient Copper Mine, The Chemistry of Copper Cookware,

Jade – Jade, Joy of Jades, The Earliest Use of Corundum and Diamond, in Prehistoric China,

Candle-making – History of Candle Making,

Boat Building - China's Boat-building Dates Back 7,500 Years, Prehistoric Boats,

Underground Homes - A Cool Guide to Underground Aleut Homes, Winter Home (Pit House Site), Aleut.

Maps

The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World, Google Earth, Google Maps, Suzhou City Topographic Map

Myths/Folklore

Pangu – Pan Gu and the World Egg: A Chinese Creation Myth,

Nuwa, Fuxi, Gong-gong – Gong Gong, Nüwa, and the Fragile Nature of Life, Fuxi - Origin, Creation Myth & Contributions, Chinese Myth Tuesdays: Fuxi, Fuxi – Chinese Inventions God, Chinese Goddess – Nuwa,

Huangdi & Yandi – The Four-Faced Yellow Emperor of Mythistory, Huangdi Culture, Yan Di,

Mongolian - Mongolian Mythology,

Demons, Monsters, Ghosts & Fairies –  Ghosts and Spirits Within Chinese Culture, The Mythical World of Chinese Fairies, Demons, Monsters, and Ghosts of the Chinese Folklore,

General Chinese Myth – Chinese Mythology, Chinese National Identity & Origin, Chinese Goddesses in Creation Myths and Legends, Religions, and Folklore.

Places & Cultures (Archaeology & Anthropology)

Lake Baikal and its Neolithic Peoples

Social Evolution among Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Forager, An Outline of the Prehistory of Siberia Part 1. The Pre-Metal Periods, Wildlife of Lake Baikal, Lake Baikal Vegetation, Archaeological sites of Lake Baikal, Population Affinities of Neolithic Siberians: A Snapshot from Prehistoric Lake Baikal, Life on the Frozen Outskirts of Lake Baikal, Baikal Archaeology Project, Temperature of Baikal – Water, Evenki.

The Reindeer People, Lake Uvs, the Asian Steppe and the Scytha

The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans, Yamnaya Culture, Ancient Genomes Suggest the Eastern Pontic-Caspian Steppe, Scythians, the Yamnaya Culture Offspring, Ancient Genomes Trace the Origin and Decline of the Scythians, Scythians, Introducing the Scythians, The Scythians, Mongolian Reindeer Herders: A Vanishing Breed, Uvs Lake, Mongolia, Uvs Nuur Basin.

Banpo, Dahecun, and the Yangshao Culture

Banpo Museum Tour, Overview of the Yangshao Culture, Representations and Identities of High Powers in Neolithic and Bronze China, Towards Civilization - Dahecun: a shining pearl of Yangshao Culture.

Sichuan

5,000-Yr-Old Ruins Found at SW China Construction Site.

Longshan & the Lower Yellow River

Longshan Culture, The Development of Complexity in Prehistoric Northern China (Please note the term Hongshan is used rather than Longshan), Longshan (3000 BCE – 1900 BCE), The Longshan Culture Site at Ximengzhuang, Tengzhou, Shandong, A Chronology for Moat Construction and Sedimentation at Chengziya, Chengziya, Longshan Culture / Black Pottery Culture, Taosi: An Archaeological Example of Urbanization, Neolithic City of Shimao.

Liangzhu & Yangzi Delta

5,000 years of Chinese Civilization to be Exhibited in Palace Museum (Liangzhu City), Liangzhu Culture, Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City, South Flank of the Yangtze Delta: Past, Present, and Future, The History of the Lower Yangtze River Valley’s Wetlands, Environmental Change in the Yangtze River delta Since 12,000 Years B.P.

Majiayao

New Archaeological Discoveries at the Majiayao Site, The Spatiotemporal Pattern of the Majiayao Cultural Evolution and its Relation to Climate Change, Majiayao Culture. 

Hulun Lake

Hulun Lake.

General China

The Chinese Neolithic: Trajectories to Early States, A Short History of China and South-east Asia: Tribute, Trade and Influence, Water Management and Labour in the Origins and Dispersal of Asian Rice, The Rise of Agricultural Civilization in China.

Vulcanism

Arshan – Eastern China, Yanshan, Gaoshan-Two Active Volcanoes of the Volcanic Cluster in Arshan, Inner Mongolia, Mysterious Arshan Heavenly Pond, Arxan Heavenly Lake, Taryatu-Chulutu Volcano, Taryatu-Chulutu Volcanic Field.