Pastoral subsistence and mounted fighting in the Eastern Tianshan Mountain region: New insights from the Shirenzigou worked bone assemblage

• Yue Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yue Li, Chengrui Zhang, Zexian Huang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: liyue@nwu.edu.cn (YL); 13319185059@163.com (JW)

  Affiliations School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Collaborative Research Center on Silk Road Archaeology, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Ministry of Science and Technology “One Belt, One Road” Joint Laboratory of Human and Environment in China and Central Asia, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2941-1490

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• Chengrui Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yue Li, Chengrui Zhang, Zexian Huang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Zexian Huang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yue Li, Chengrui Zhang, Zexian Huang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Collaborative Research Center on Silk Road Archaeology, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Ministry of Science and Technology “One Belt, One Road” Joint Laboratory of Human and Environment in China and Central Asia, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

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• Huan Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation School of Resource, Environment, and Historical Culture, Xianyang Normal University, Xianyang, China

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• Meng Ren,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Collaborative Research Center on Silk Road Archaeology, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Ministry of Science and Technology “One Belt, One Road” Joint Laboratory of Human and Environment in China and Central Asia, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

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• Tongyuan Xi,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Collaborative Research Center on Silk Road Archaeology, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Ministry of Science and Technology “One Belt, One Road” Joint Laboratory of Human and Environment in China and Central Asia, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

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• Jian Ma,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources

  Affiliations School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Collaborative Research Center on Silk Road Archaeology, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Ministry of Science and Technology “One Belt, One Road” Joint Laboratory of Human and Environment in China and Central Asia, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

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• Jianxin Wang

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: liyue@nwu.edu.cn (YL); 13319185059@163.com (JW)

  Affiliations School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Collaborative Research Center on Silk Road Archaeology, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Ministry of Science and Technology “One Belt, One Road” Joint Laboratory of Human and Environment in China and Central Asia, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

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