Stable isotopes reveal intensive pig husbandry practices in the middle Yellow River region by the Yangshao period (7000–5000 BP)

• Quan Zhang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bailiaocao@163.com (QZ); houyanfeng@126.com (YH)

  ¶‡ These authors joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliation School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3163-7640

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• Yanfeng Hou ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bailiaocao@163.com (QZ); houyanfeng@126.com (YH)

  ¶‡ These authors joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Heritage and Archaeology, Zhengzhou, China

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• Xinwei Li,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Amy Styring,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Julia Lee-Thorp

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3291-0258

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