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Field Reports

Bettinger, R.L., Barton, L., Elston, R.G.
n.d. Report on 2002 Archaeological Fieldwork in Gansu and Ningxia Provinces, PRC. Prepared for the U.S. National Science Foundation BCS-Archaeology, Program NSF 01-153 High-Risk Survey For The Earliest Agriculture In North China Grant Number 0222742 (unpublished MS, completed in April, 2005)

Bettinger, R.L., Barton, L., Brantingham, P.J., Elston, R.G.
n.d. Report on 2004 Archaeological Fieldwork at the Dadiwan Site, Shao Dian Village, Gansu Province, PRC. Prepared for the Pacific Rim Research Program (unpublished MS completed in April, 2005).

Barton, L., Morgan, C.T, Bettinger, R.L., Zhang, D.J.
n.d. The archaeology of archaic and early modern humans in northwest China: a report on the 2007 Paleolithic Survey Project in eastern Longxi Basin, Gansu. Funded by The Leakey Foundation (unpublished MS, completed in February, 2008)

Books / Monographs / Dissertations

Madsen, D.B., F.H. Chen, and X. Gao (eds.)
2007 Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China. Developments in Quaternary Sciences, Volume 9, Elsevier, Amsterdam. >>

An, C.B.
2004 Holocene Environment Change in the Western Part of the Chinese Loess Plateau and its Effect on Prehistoric Cultural Development. Ph.D Dissertation. Lanzhou: Environment and Resources College, Lanzhou University.

Madsen, D.B. (ed.)
2004 Entering America: Northeast Asia and Beringia Before the Last Glacial Maximum. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. >>

Brantingham, P.J., S.L. Kuhn, and K.W. Kerry (eds.)
2004 The Early Upper Paleolithic Beyond Western Europe. University of California Press, Berkeley. >>

Elston, R.G. and Kuhn, S.L. (eds.)
2002 Thinking Small: Global Perspectives on Microlithization. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, No. 12. Washington, D.C.

Brantingham, P.J.
1999 Astride the Movius Line: Late Pleistocene Lithic Technological Variability in Northeast Asia. Ph.D Dissertation. Tucson: University of Arizona.


Articles

Bettinger, R.L., Elston, R.G., Madsen, D.B., Li, Z., and You, Y.
1990 Transitional Paleolithic-Neolithic Settlement and Subsistence in Alashan League, Western Inner Mongolia. Current Research in the Pleistocene 7:1-3.

Bettinger, R.L., Madsen, D.B., and Elston, R.G.
1994 Prehistoric Settlement Categories and Settlement Systems in the Alashan Desert of Inner Mongolia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 13:74-101.

Madsen, D.B., Elston, R.G., Bettinger, R.L.
1995 Hua bei zhong bu jiushiqi wan qi zhi xinshiqi zao qi ju luo xin tai de bian hua (Late Paleolithic-Early Neolithic Settlement Assemblage Changes in North Central China). Kaogu (Archaeology) 7:1013-1027 (in Chinese).

Madsen, D.B., Elston, R.G., Bettinger, R.L., Xu, C., and Zhong, K.
1996 Settlement Patterns Reflected in Assemblages from the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition of North Central China. Journal of Archaeological Science 23(2):217-232.

Elston, R.G., Xu, C., Madsen, D.B, Zhong, K., Bettinger, R.L., Li, J., Brantingham, P.J., Wang, H., Yu, J.
1997 New Dates for the North China Mesolithic. Antiquity 71:985-993.

Madsen, D. B., Li, J., Elston, R.G., Xu, C., Bettinger, R.L., Geng, K., Brantingham, P.J., Zhong, K.
1998 The Loess/Paleosol Record and the Nature of the Younger Dryas Climate in Central China. Geoarchaeology 13:847-869.

Brantingham, P.J., Olsen, J.W., Rech, J.A., Krivoshapkin, A.I.
2000 Raw material quality and prepared core technologies in Northeast Asia. Journal of Archaeological Science 27:255-271.

Brantingham, P.J. Li, J., Krivoshapkin, A.I., and Tserendgava, Y.
2001 The Initial Upper Paleolithic in Northeast Asia. Current Anthropology 42:735-747.

Brantingham, P.J., Olsen, J.W., and Schaller, G.B.
2001 Lithic assemblages from the Chang Tang Region, Northern Tibet. Antiquity 75:319–27

Madsen, D.B., Li, J., Brantingham, P.J., Gao, X., Elston, R.G., Bettinger, R.L.,
2001 Dating Shuidonggou and the Upper Paleolithic blade industry in North China. Antiquity 75:706-716.

Elston, R.G., and Brantingham, P.J.
2002 Microlithic Technology in Northeast Asia: A Risk Minimizing Strategy of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene. In, Elston, R.G. and Khun, S. (eds.), Thinking Small: Global Perspectives on Microlithization. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, No. 12, pp. 103-116. Washington, D.C.

Kuhn, SL., and Elston, R.G.
2002 Introduction: Thinking Small Globally. In Thinking Small: Global Perspectives on Microlithization, edited by Robert G. Elston and Stephen L. Kuhn . Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 12, pp.1-8. Washington, D.C.

Gao X., Li J., Madsen, D.B., Brantingham, P.J., Elston, R.G., and Bettinger, R.L.
2002 New 14C dates for Shuidonggou and Related Discussions. Acta Anthropologica Sinica 21: 211-218 (in Chinese).

Shi Q., Chen, F., Zhu, Y., and Madsen, D.
2002 Lake evolution of the terminal area of Shiyang River drainage in arid China since the last glaciation. Quaternary International 93-94:31-44.

Xie, S., F.H. Chen, Z. Wang, C.B. An.
2002 The occurrence of a grassy vegetation over the Chinese Loess Plateau since the last interglacial: the molecular fossil record. Science in China (Ser.D), 45(1): 53-62

Zhu, Y., Chen, F., Cheng, B., and Madsen, D.
2002 Pollen Assemblage Features of Modern Water Samples from the Shiyang River Drainage, Arid China. Acta Botanica Sinica 44(3): 367-373 (in Chinese).

Zhu, Y., Chen, F., and Madsen, D.
2002 The environmental signal of an early Holocene pollen record from Shiyang River basin lake sediments, NW China. Chinese Science Bulletin 47(4):267-273.

An, C.B, Z.D. Feng, L. Tang.
2003 Evidence of a humid mid-Holocene in the western part of Chinese Loess Plateau. Chinese Science Bulletin,48(22):2472-2479.

Brantingham, P.J., Ma, H., Olsen, J.W., Gao, X., Madsen, D.B., and Rhode, D.E..
2003 Speculation on the timing and Nature of Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherer colonization of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. China Science Bulletin 48(6).

Chen F., Wu W. , Holmes, J.A., Madsen, D.B., Zhu Y., Jin M., and Oviatt, C.G.
2003 A mid-Holocene drought interval as evidenced by lake desiccation in the Alashan Plateau, Inner Mongolia, China. Chinese Science Bulletin 48 (6).

Madsen, D.B., Chen, F., Oviatt, C.G., Zhu, Y., Brantingham, P.J., Elston, R.G., and Bettinger, R.L.
2003 Late Pleistocene/Holocene wetland events recorded in Tengger Desert lake sediments, NW China. Chinese Science Bulletin 48(6).

Rhode, D., Madsen, D.B., Brantingham, P.J., and Goebel, T.
2003 Human occupation of the Beringian "Mammoth Steppe": starved for fuel or dung-burner's paradise? Current Research in the Pleistocene, 20: 68-70.

An, C.B., Feng, Z.D., Tang, L.
2004 Environmental change and cultural response between 8000 and 4000 cal. yr BP in the western Loess Plateau, NW China. Journal of Quaternary Science, 19: 529-535

Feng, Z.D., An, C.B., Jull, A.J.T.
2004 Stratigraphic evidence of the mid-Holocene Megahumid climate in the western part of the Chinese Loess Plateau. Global and Planetary Change, 43: 145-155.

Brantingham, P.J., Gao, X., Madsen, D.B., Bettinger, R.L., Elston, R.G.
2004 The initial Upper Paleolithic at Shuidonggou, Northwestern China. In, P.J. Brantingham, S.L. Kuhn, K.W. Kerry (eds.) The Early Upper Paleolithic Beyond Western Europe, pp.223-241, University of California Press.

Brantingham, P.J., Kerry, K.W., Krivoshapkin, A.I., Kuzmin, Y.V.
2004 Time-space dynamics in the Early Upper Paleolithic. In, David B. Madsen (ed.) Entering America: Northeast Asia and Beringia Before the Last Glacial Maximum, pp.255-284, University of Utah Press.

Madsen, D.B
2004 Entering America: Issues and Problems. In, David B. Madsen (ed.) Entering America: Northeast Asia and Beringia Before the Last Glacial Maximum, pp.1-28, University of Utah Press.

Madsen, D.B
2004 Recapitulation: The Relative Probabilities of Late Pre-LGM or Early Post-LGM Ages for the Initial Occupation of the Americas. In, David B. Madsen (ed.) Entering America: Northeast Asia and Beringia Before the Last Glacial Maximum, pp.389-396, University of Utah Press.

An, C.B, Tang, L., Barton, L., Chen, F.H.
2005 Climate change and cultural response around 4,000 cal. yr B.P. in the western part of the Chinese Loess Plateau. Quaternary Research, 63: 347-352.

Ji, D.X, Chen, F.H., Bettinger, R.L., Elston, R.G., Geng, Z.Q, Barton, L., Wang, H., An, C.B, Zhang, D.J.
2005 Mocishengbingqi huanjing bianhua dui zhongguo beifan jiushiqi wenhua de yingxiang (Human response to the Last Glacial Maximum: evidence from northern China). Renleixuebao (Acta Anthropologica Sinica), 24: 270-282 (in Chinese).

An, C.B, Feng, Z.D., Barton, L.
2006 Dry or humid? Mid Holocene humidity changes in arid and semi-arid China. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25: 351-361.

Madsen, D.B., Ma, H., Brantingham, P.J., Gao, X., Rhode, D., Zhang, H., Olsen, J.W.
2006 The late Upper Paleolithic occupation of the northern Tibetan Plateau margin. Journal of Archaeological Science, 33: 1433-1444.

Chen, F.H., Chen, B., Zhao, Y., Zhu, Y., Madsen, D.B.
2006 Holocene environmental change inferred from a high-resolution pollen record, Lake Zhuyeze, arid China. The Holocene, 16,5: 675-684.

Brantingham, P.J., Gao, X.
2006 Peopling of the northern Tibetan Plateau. World Archaeology, 38(3): 387-414.

Chen, F.H., Rao, Z.G., Zhang, J., Jin, M., Ma, J.
2006 Variations of organic carbon isotopic composition and its environmental significance during the last glacial on western Chinese Loess Plateau. Chinese Science Bulletin, 51(13): 1593-1602.

Rao, Z.G., Zhu, Z., Chen, F.H., Zhang, J.
2006 Does d13C(carb) of the Chinese loess indicate past C3/C4 abundance? A review of research on stable carbon isotopes of the Chinese loess. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25: 2251-2257.

Rhode, D., Zhang, H., Madsen, D.B., Gao, X., Brantingham, P.J., Ma, H., Olsen, J.W.
2007 Epipaleolithic / early Neolithic settlements at Qinghai Lake, western China. Journal of Archaeological Science, 34: 600-612.

Rhode, D., Madsen, D.B., Brantingham, P.J., Dargye, T.
2007 Yaks, yak dung, and prehistoric human habtitation of the Tibetan Plateau. In, D.B. Madsen, F.H. CHen, & X. Gao (eds.)
Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China, pp.205-224, Developments in Quaternary Sciences, Volume 9, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Madsen, D.B., Chen, F.H., Gao, X.
2007 Archaeology at the margins: exploring the Late Paleolithic to Neolithic transition in China's arid west. In, D.B. Madsen, F.H. CHen, & X. Gao (eds.)
Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China, pp.3-7, Developments in Quaternary Sciences, Volume 9, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Madsen, D.B., Chen, F.H., Gao, X.
2007 Changing views of Late Quaternary human adaptation in arid China. In, D.B. Madsen, F.H. CHen, & X. Gao (eds.)
Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China, pp.227-232, Developments in Quaternary Sciences, Volume 9, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Madsen, D.B., Elston, R.G.
2007 Variation in Late Quaternary central Asian climates and the nature of human response. In, D.B. Madsen, F.H. CHen, & X. Gao (eds.)
Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China, pp.69-82, Developments in Quaternary Sciences, Volume 9, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Chen, F.H., Cheng, B., Zhao, H., Fan, Y.X., Madsen, D.B., Jin, M.
2007 Post-glacial climate variability and drought events in the monsoon transition zone of western China. In, D.B. Madsen, F.H. CHen, & X. Gao (eds.)
Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China, pp.25-39, Developments in Quaternary Sciences, Volume 9, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Bettinger, R.L., Barton, L., Richerson, P.J., Boyd, R., Wang, H., Choi., W.
2007 The transition to agriculture in northwestern China. In, D.B. Madsen, F.H. CHen, & X. Gao (eds.)
Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China, pp.83-101, Developments in Quaternary Sciences, Volume 9, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Barton, L., Brantingham, P.J., Ji, D.X.
2007 Late Pleistocene climate change and Paleolithic cultural evolution in northern China: implications from the Last Glacial Maximum. In, D.B. Madsen, F.H. CHen, & X. Gao (eds.)
Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China, pp.105-128, Developments in Quaternary Sciences, Volume 9, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Brantingham, P.J., Gao, X., Olsen, J.W., Ma, H., Rhode, D., Zhang, H., Madsen, D.B.
2007 A short chronology for the peopling of the Tibetan Plateau. In, D.B. Madsen, F.H. CHen, & X. Gao (eds.)
Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China, pp.129-150, Developments in Quaternary Sciences, Volume 9, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Madsen, D., Ma, H., Rhode, D., Brantingham, P.J., and Forman, S.,
2008? Age constraints on the Late Pleistocene evolution of Qinghai Lake, Tibetan Plateau (with Ma H. and others). Quaternary Research (in press).


Poster Presentations

Brantingham, P.J., Zhong K., Elston, R.G., Li J., and Yang R.
1998 Shuidonggou and the Early Upper Paleolithic in North China. Poster presented at the Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Chicago. Abstracts: 57.

Madsen, D.B., Xu C., Bettinger, R.L., Geng K., Brantingham, P.J., Li J., Elston, R.G., and Zhong K.
2000 The Loess/Paleosol Record During the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition at the Margin of the Summer Monsoon. Poster presented at the Past Global Changes Workshop: Monsoon Climate, Geomorphologic Processes and Human Activities, Nanjing, China.

Bettinger, R.L., Elston, R.G., Madsen, D.B., Brantingham, P.J., Barton, L.W., Oviatt, C.G., and Hui W.
2003 Late Paleolithic Occupation of North China. Poster presented at the 16th International Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research, Reno.

Chen F., Zhu Y., Madsen, D.B., and Wunnëmann, B.
2003 A Mid-Holocene Dry Interval in Central China: Evidence from Lake Sediment Lithologies and Ecological Proxies. Poster presented at the 16th International Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research, Reno.

Madsen, D.B., Chen F., Brantingham, P.J., Rhode, D., Oviatt, C.G., Bettinger, R.L., Elston, R.G., and Ma H.
2003 Climate Change and Human Adaptation Along the Northeastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Poster presented at the 16th International Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research, Reno.

Rhode, D., Madsen, D.B., and, Brantingham, P.J.
2003 Preliminary Assessment of the Utility of Dung as Fuel during the Initial Occupation of Beringia, based on Analogues from the Tibetan Plateau. Poster presented at the 16th International Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research, Reno.

Barton, L.
2004 Archaeobotanical Evidence for Intensive Cereal Production in Neolithic North China. Poster presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, Quebec.

Barton, L.
2004 Incipient Agriculture, Ethnographic Models, and the Archaeology of Neolithic North China. Poster presented at the 27th Annual Society of Ethnobiology Conference, Davis, CA.

Barton, L., Bettinger, R.L., Brantingham, P.J., Ji, D.X., Elston, R.G., Madsen, D.B., Chen, F., Wang, H.
2005 Human Adaptations to the Last Glacial Maximum: Technology and Risk in China's Western Loess Plateau. Poster presented at the PAGES Second Open Science Meeting, August 2005, Beijing, PRC.

Brantingham, P.J., Ma, H., Gao, X., Olsen, J.W., Rhode, D.E., Madsen, D.B.
2005 Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Occupation of the High-elevation Northern Tibet Plateau. Poster presented at the PAGES Second Open Science Meeting, August 2005, Beijing, PRC.

Madsen, D.B., Ma, H., Brantingham, P.J., Rhode, D.E., Gao, X., Olsen, J.W., Zhang, H.
2005 Early Human Adaptation to the Tibetan Plateau. Poster presented at the PAGES Second Open Science Meeting, August 2005, Beijing, PRC.

Rhode, D.E., Ma, H., Brantingham, P.J., Zhang, X., Madsen, D.B.
2005 Latest Pleistocene/Holocene Paleoenvironments at Heima He, Southern Qinghai Lake, Western China. Poster presented at the PAGES Second Open Science Meeting, August 2005, Beijing, PRC.

Elston, R.G., Chen, F., Madsen, D.B., An, C., Zhang, D.
2005 Understanding Desertification: Human agency and Holocene climate chagne in Jilantai Basin of Western Inner Mongolia, China. Poster presented at the PAGES Second Open Science Meeting, August 2005, Beijing, PRC.

An, C., Tang, L., Barton, L., Chen, F.
2005 Climate Change and the Qijia Collapse: 4,000 cal. yr BP. marks the end of an era in China's Western Loess Plateau. Poster presented at the PAGES Second Open Science Meeting, August 2005, Beijing, PRC.

Chen, F., Cheng, B., Zhao, Y., Madsen, D.B.
2006 Millennial Holocene climatic variability in the East Asian monsoon margin inferred from a high-resolution pollen record, Lake Zhuyeze, China. Poster presented at the HOLIVAR Natural Climate Variability and Global Warming Open Science Meeting, June 2006, London, U.K.


Conference Papers

Madsen, D.B.
1989 Late Paleolithic Hunter Gatherers of Northwestern China. Paper presented at University of Queensland, St. Lucia.

Elston, R.G., You Y., Madsen, D.B., Li Z., and Bettinger, R.L.
1990 Comparative Archaeology in Alashan League, Western Inner Mongolia, P.R.C. and the Great Basin, U.S.A. Paper presented at the 22nd Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Reno. Program and Abstracts: 27.

Madsen, D.B., Li Z., You Y., Bettinger, R.L., and Elston, R.G.
1991 Comparative Settlement System Analysis in the Great Basin, U.S.A. and Western Nei Mongol. Paper presented at the 13th International Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research, Beijing. Abstracts: 226.

Madsen, D.B.
1992 Comparative Site Distribution Analysis in the Basins of Western China and the Western United States. Paper presented at the 50th Plains Anthropological Conference, Lincoln.

Bettinger, R.L
1993 The Origins of Seasonally Structured Settlement and Subsistence Systems in the Alashan Desert of Inner Mongolia. Paper presented at Grassland Ecosystems of the Mongolian Steppe: A Research Conference, Racine, Wisconsin.

Elston, R.G., Bettinger, R.L., Madsen, D.B., Xu C., and Zhong K.
1994 Late Paleolithic-Early Neolithic Settlement Assemblage Changes in North Central China. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society, Los Angeles.

Bettinger, R.L
1996 The Transition to Agriculture in Northern China. Paper presented to the UCLA Institute of Archaeology, 13 June 1996.

Elston, R.G., Xu C., Madsen, D.B., Zhong K., Bettinger, R.L., Li J., and Brantingham, P.J.
1996 Late Paleolithic - Neolithic Transition in Northern China: Archaeological Investigations in the Pigeon Mountain Basin, Ningxia, China. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society. New Orleans, Lousiana.

Madsen, D.B.
1997 The Effect of Rapid Climate Change During the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition on Human Foragers in the Tengger Desert, China and the Great Basin, U.S.A. Paper presented at the 1997 Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco. Abstracts:

Bettinger, R.L
1997 Hunter-Gatherer Antecedents to Agriculture In North China. Paper presented to the Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico.

Elston, R.G., Brantingham, P.J., Li J., Bettinger, R.L. and Madsen, D.B.
1998 Temporal and Spatial Distributions of Key Technologies in the Late Paleolithic of Northeast Asia. Paper presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle. Abstracts: 105.

Madsen, D.B., Elston, R.G., Bettinger, R.L., Brantingham, P.J., and Li J.
1998 Looking for the Antecedents to Agriculture in Northern China. Paper presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle. Abstracts: 195.

Bettinger, R.L.,
1998 Lithic Assemblage Variability at the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary in North China: Results of the Pigeon Mountain Project, Ningxia, PRC. Paper presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle. Abstracts: 49

Bettinger, R.L
1999 Prehistoric North China on the Eve of Agriculture. Paper presented as Richard Frucht Memorial Lecture. Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, March 1999, Edmonton.

Elston, R.G., and Brantingham, P.J.
1999 Pebble and Biface Microblade Cores in East Asia: Contrasts in Efficiency and Control. Paper presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Chicago. Abstracts: 101.

Madsen, D.B.
1999 North Asian - North American Connections: The Smithsonian Workshop. Paper presented at the Clovis and Beyond Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Brantingham, P.J.
2000 One Hit Wonder? Shuidonggou and the Failure of the EUP in North China. Paper presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia. Abstracts: 53.

Bettinger, R.L
2001 Hunter-Gatherer Population Expansion in the Late Pleistocene of Northeast Asia. Paper presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans. Abstracts: 62.

Bettinger, R.L
2001 Climate Change and the Origins of Agriculture in China. Paper presented at the INQUA Symposium on Abrupt Holocene Environmental Changes in Arid Asia - History and Mechanisms (RACHAD 2001), Lanzhou, China. Abstract published in Program and Abstracts.

Bettinger, R.L
2001 Ceramics and Adaptive Change in North China at the End of the Pleistocene. Paper presented at the Exploring the Contexts for the Oldest Pottery in the World – An International Symposium Organized as part of the Jomon in Cambridge Project, October 2001, Cambridge, UK.

Brantingham, P.J.
2001 The Paleolithic Colonization of Tibet. Paper presented at the International Union for Quaternary Research Symposium on Abrupt Holocene Environmental Changes in Arid Asia - History and Mechanisms (RACHAD 2001), Lanzhou, China. Abstract published in Program and Abstracts.

Brantingham, P.J., and Kerry, K.
2001 Time-Space Dynamics in the Early Upper Paleolithic of Northeast Asia. Paper presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans. Abstracts: 73.

Elston, R.G.
2001 Spatio-Temporal Distributions of Microlithic Technology in Asia and North America, and Some Implications for Technological Choice. Paper presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans. Abstracts: 129.

Elston, R.G., Chen F., Bettinger, R.L., Li J., Brantingham, P.J., Zhu Y., Madsen, D.B., and Oviatt, C.G.
2001 Late Pleistocene and Holocene Archaeology of the Tengger Desert and Surrounding Regions. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Abrupt Holocene Environmental Changes in Arid Asia - History and Mechanisms, (RACHAD 2001), Lanzhou, China. Abstract published in Program and Abstracts.

Madsen, D.B.
2001 Entering America: Northeast Asia and Beringia before the Last Glacial Maximum: An Introduction. Paper presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans. Abstracts: 20.

Madsen, D.B. Chen F., Oviatt, C.G., Zhu Y., Brantingham, P.J., Elston, R.G., and Bettinger, R.L.
2001 Millennial-Scale Climate Cycles Represented in Holocene Records of Southeast Tengger Desert Lakes, NW China. Paper presented at the International Union for Quaternary Research Symposium on Abrupt Holocene Environmental Changes in Arid Asia - History and Mechanisms (RACHAD 2001), Lanzhou, China. Abstract published in Program and Abstracts.

Bettinger, R.L
2003 Transition to Agriculture in Northwestern China. Paper presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee. Abstracts: 146.

Brantingham, P.J., Ma H., Madsen, D.B., Gao X., Rhode, D.E., Olsen, J.W.
2003 The Biogeography of Late Pleistocene Hominid Populations in Central and East Asia. Paper presented at the 16th International Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research, Reno.

Elston, R. G., P. J. Brantingham, Gao X., D. B. Madsen, Li J. Z., and R. L. Bettinger
2003 Shuidonggou Locality Two: Recent Interpretations and Future Opportunities. Paper presented at the International Meeting Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Shuidonggou site. Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui, P.R. China.

Rhode, D.
2003 Ethnobiology and Sustainability: Archaeological Perspectives on the
Prehistoric Occupation of the Tibetan Plateau, western China. Paper presented at the 20th Annual Meeting, Society of Ethnobiology, Seattle.

Elston, R.G., J. C. Woods, G. Titmus and P. J. Brantingham
2004 Replication Insights for Problems in N.E. Asian and N. American Microblade Technology. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, Quebec.

Barton, L.
2006 Archaeobotany, climate change, and the origin of agriculture. Paper presented at the 2006 RACHAD Workshop, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, P.R.C.

Bettinger, R.L.
2006 The origins of agriculture in North China. Paper presented at the 2006 RACHAD Workshop, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, P.R.C.

Madsen, D.B., Brantingham, P.J., Barton, L., Ji, D.X.
2006 The impact of rapid climate change events on late Quaternary cultural evolution in arid China. Paper presented at the 2006 RACHAD Workshop, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, P.R.C.

Chen, F.H., Yu, Z.C., Holmes, J., Wang, S.M
2006 Patterns of Holocene climate change in the westerly-dominated region of arid central Asia: similarities and differences from monsoon Asia. Paper presented at the 2006 RACHAD Workshop, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, P.R.C.

Chen, F.H., Huang, X.Z.
2006 Holocene climate changes in arid central Asia documented by Bosten Lake. Paper presented at the 2006 RACHAD Workshop, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, P.R.C.

Madsen, D., Chen, F., Oviatt, G., Fan, Y., Chun, X., Zhao, H., and Yang, L.
2007. Hetao Lake: A mid-to-late Pleistocene megalake on the great northern bend of the Yellow River. Paper presented at the International Workshop on Environmental Changes and Sustainable Development in Aric and Semi-arid Regions, Alashan, P.R.C.

Fan, Y., Chen, F., Madsen, D., Zhao, H., Yang, L., Oviatt, C., Li, G., and Chun, X.,
2007 Water sources determination of the Late Quaternary Lake Jilantai in western China. Paper presented at the International Workshop on Environmental Changes and Sustainable Development in Aric and Semi-arid Regions, Alashan, P.R.C.

Rhode, D., Ma, H., Madsen, D., Brantingham, J.P., and Forman, S.,
2007 Paleoenvironmental and Archaeological Investigations at Qinghai Lake, Western China. Poster presented at the XVII INQUA Congress, Cairns, Australia. Abstract: Quaternary International 167-168 (Supplement 1): p. 341

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