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Ancient water management

Late Neolithic community, clay pipes and water diversion in monsoonal North Central China

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Excavation and a geoarchaeological survey provide evidence of an early multi-levelled water management system in the Late-Holocene East Asian Monsoon region.

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Scarborough, V.L. Late Neolithic community, clay pipes and water diversion in monsoonal North Central China. Nat Water 1, 664–665 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-023-00119-z

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