Introduction
摘要
Coastal China, where the eastern end of the East Asian continent meets the Pacific Ocean, has been an area with a very complex human population history over the last 40,000 years, beginning from the Late Paleolithic period. The inland areas of China featured the development of the Sino-Tibetan language family, and by the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age periods gave birth to one of the Old World’s so-called four major primary civilizations.