Humans Needed Barley to Reach the Roof of the World (3 of 11) (IMAGE)

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Humans Needed Barley to Reach the Roof of the World (3 of 11)

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Excavation of Jinchankou site (Qijia Culture) in northeastern Tibetan Plateau. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 21, 2014 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by F.H. Chen at University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK, and colleagues was titled, 'Agriculture Facilitated Permanent Human Occupation of the Tibetan Plateau after 3,600 BP.'

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[Credit: Xiaoyan Ren]

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