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Revealing China’s ancient past

By Guest PostJune 7, 20101 commentCulture, Scienceamerican association for the advancement of science, arts & sciences, China, environmental change, han dynasty, henan provincial institute of cultural relics and archa, mississippi river, mulberry leaves, pleistocene era, plow shares, rural life in china, sanyangzhuang, silk cultivation, silk road, society for american archeology, st. louis, t.r. kidder, washington university, western china, yellow river

An archeologist at Washington University in St. Louis is helping to reveal for the first time a snapshot of rural life in China during the Han Dynasty.