LANZHOU -- Chinese archaeologists have discovered the largest known Majiayao culture settlement site in Lintao county, Northwest China's Gansu province, according to a joint archaeological team from ...

Also called "dikengyuan" in Mandarin, which means "pit courtyards," the homes are a type of cave dwelling ("yaodong") commonly found in the Loess Plateau in northern China. "Academic literature ...

Life on the North China Plain is one of self-sufficiency and subsistence. Wheat, cotton, tobacco, peanuts, persimmons, and other seasonal fruits and vegetables are grown there. Physical ...

Huangling County is located on the Loess Plateau of northwest China in Shaanxi Province. It is known for the Yellow Emperor s tomb, hence the name Huangling of the county. Yellow Emperor is the ...

The area characterized by Pisha sandstone is often termed "the most extreme case of water loss and soil erosion globally", ...

A team led by IGGCAS researcher, Tungsheng Liu, a CAS member, has traced the history of aeolian dust sediments in northern China to tens of millions years ago by surveying the Loess Plateau and ...

China-US team of researchers finds links between ... The researchers took sediment samples from Beilianchi Lake on the Loess Plateau, an area of recurrent episodes of large-scale unrest which ...

The paper said the work could be extended to a large number of fossil snail shells preserved in the Loess Plateau in north-central China that might reconstruct a relationship of extreme rainstorms ...