An archaeology dig on the “roof of the world” has yielded evidence that humans figured out much earlier than previously known how to survive year-round in farming and grazing settlements in extreme high-altitude regions of the Tibetan Plateau, finds research released Nov. 20 in the journal Science.
“The timing of when humans started to live and farm at such high altitude land is rather interesting,” said study co-author Xinyi Liu, PhD, an assistant professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
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