Kung, James Kai-sing; Özak, Ömer; Putterman, Louis G.; … - 2022
agriculture, and migratory distance across 1° x 1° grid cells in eastern Asia, we find that cells that adopted agriculture earlier … and were close to Erlitou - the earliest political center in eastern Asia - remained under Chinese control for longer and … for them to develop and confront the expanding Chinese empire. Our study sheds important light on why eastern Asia kept …