Fu Qiaomei's team and Guizhou partners analyzed 50 ancient remains from 8 Guizhou sites, revealing ancestry shifts across 12,000 years, a pre-Bronze Age population replacement, and language-linked genetic structure in southwestern East Asia.

A multidisciplinary study led by Academician CHEN Fahu reveals for the first time the physical morphology, technological behaviour and survival strategies of Denisovans in South China, reconstructing their survival landscape on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau.

The Chuandong Cave site in Guizhou has yielded a ~50,000-year-old early modern human molar, more than 2,500 polished bone tools, China's earliest stone ornaments, and Denisovan protein signals - reshaping how we see prehistoric human interaction in East Asia.

After 12 years of research, scientists analyzed 149 ancient genomes (c. 4,700-3,000 years ago) from 11 sites in Gansu, showing wheat agriculture, cattle, sheep and bronze arrived without Western migration - a case of cultural diffusion. The Mogou cemetery also reveals a social structure never seen before.

Zhang Fan's team combined ancient genomes and isotopes from 11 individuals (ca. 9,000-5,500 BP) at Kangbao Xinglong, Hebei, showing 1,500 years of genetic continuity with a shift to millets by ~7,500 BP - a 'third pathway' of agricultural origins from East Asia.

Japanese researchers generated high-coverage genomes of an 8,300-year-old Jomon woman and a 2,300-year-old Yayoi man, revealing the Jomon as an early East Asian lineage, divergent post-glacial demography, and starch-adaptation diversity predating farming.