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1. Jianping Zhang*^#, Leping Jiang*, Lupeng Yu*, Xiujia Huan, Liping Zhou, Changsheng Wang, Jianhui Jin, Xinxin Zuo, Naiqin Wu, Zhijun Zhao, Hanlong Sun, Zhaoyuan Yu, Guoping Zhang, Jiangping Zhu, Zhenlei Wu, Yajie Dong, Baoshuo Fan1, Caiming Shen, Houyuan Lu*^#. Rice’s trajectory from wild to domesticated in East Asia. Science. 384, 901–906.
2. Li Liu*, Jianping Zhang*, Jingbo Li, Yahui He, Zhongzhe Gao, Leping Jiang. Identification of 10,000-year-old rice beer at Shangshan in the Lower Yangzi River valley of China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2024, 121(51): e2412274121.
3. Zhongzhe Gao, Jianping Zhang*, Zehao Zhang, Houyuan Lu dMorphological identification of selected spices by starches, calciphytoliths, and phytoliths. 2024, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, in press.
4. Haiyan Li, Chengpeng Wang, Xiaolei Zhang, Jianping Zhang*, Chunmei Ma*. Mosaic pattern of sustained rice domestication and its environmental and cultural implications in Neolithic East China. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 171, 106084.
5. He Keyang, Wang Yonglei, Zheng Yunfei, Sun Guoping, Lei Shao, Li Yongning, Yu Xiaoshan, Zhang Jianping, Lu Houyuan. Geographic mosaics of rice domestication in the lower Yangtze River indicated by morphological characteristics of rice bulliform phytoliths. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 16:28.
   
6. Xiangwei Zhao, Zhaoliang Song, Yuntao Wu, Lukas Van Zwieten, Laodong Guo, Changxun Yu, Zimin Li, Lele Wu, Xiaomin Yang, Xiangbin Ran, Jun Sun, Yuqiu Wei, Yidong Wang, Peng Yuan, Jianping Zhang, Xiaole Sun, Xinxin Zuo, Tony Vancov, Cong-Qiang Liu, Hailong Wang. Biogenic silica dynamics in coastal wetland sediments: A key driver of silicon and carbon biogeochemical cycling. Limnology and Oceanography. 9999, 1–17.
   
   2023
7. Jianping Zhang*, Ying Guan, Xinyi Liu. Editorial: Frontiers in the study of ancient plant remains. Front. Plant Sci. 14:1177435.
8. Shao Konglan, Zhang Jianping, Zheng Hongbo, Gu Zhaoyan, Xu Bing, Yang Qing, He Keyang, Lu Houyuan. Variations in Holocene fire activity and its controls in the Ningshao Plain, eastern China. Boreas. 52, 507–516.
9. Keyang He, Guoping Sun, Yonglei Wang, Yunfei Zheng, Jianping Zhang, Xiaoshan Yu, Caiming Shen, Houyuan Lu. Earliest Neolithic occupation and maritime adaptation on the West Pacific coast. Journal of Archaeological Science. 160, 105874.
10. Deke Xu, Chang Li, Yingyu Jin, Zhenhua Deng, Bing Xu, Kangkang Li, Jianping Zhang, Xiaohong Sun, Jing Feng, Yingxin Jiao, Hao Li, Xiaoguang Qin. Relationship between the rise and fall of Loulan ancient city and centennial-scale climate events and cycles. Frontiers of Earth Science. 17(4), 1070–1080.
    
    2022
11. Jianping Zhang, Xiujia Huan, Houyuan Lü, Can Wang, Caiming Shen, Keyang He, Ying Lü, Naiqin Wu (2022). Crossing of the hu line by neolithic population in response to seesaw precipitation changes in china. Science Bulletin. 67: 844–852.
12. Xiujia Huan, Jianping Zhang*, Yijie Zhuang, Chou Fan, Ningyuan Wang, Xiang Ji, Konglan Shao, Keyang He, Jianhui Jin, Xinxin Zuo, Houyuan Lu (2022). Intensification of rice farming and its environmental consequences recorded in a Liangzhu reservoir, China. Quaternary International. 619: 39-45.
13. Keyang He, Houyuan Lu, Jianping Zhang, Can Wang. Holocene spatiotemporal millet agricultural patterns in northern China: a dataset of archaeobotanical macroremains. Earth System Science Data. 14, 4777–4791.
14. Xiujia Huan, Xingtao Wei, Jianping Zhang, Jindou Li, Xiaohu Zhang, Konglan Shao, Yong Ge, Xiaoyan Yang and Houyuan Lu (2022), Discovery of the Earliest Rice Paddy in the Mixed Rice–Millet Farming Area of China. Land 11(6):831.
15. Keyang He, Houyuan Lu, Guoping Sun, Yonglei Wang, Yunfei Zheng,Hongbo Zheng, Shao Lei, Yongning Li, Jianping Zhang (2022). Dynamic Interaction Between Deforestation and Rice Cultivation During the Holocene in the Lower Yangtze River, China. Frontiers in Earth Science. 10:849501.
16. Cong Wang, Jianping Zhang*, Houyuan Lu (2022). Study on phytolith morphology of bast fiber crops. Quaternary Sciences. 42(6): 1775-1791. (in Chinese)
    
    2021
17. Zhang Jianping*, Lv Ying, Yu Lupeng*, Tang Miao, Huang Ming, Shao Konglan, Huan Xiujia, Wen Changhui, Dong Yajie, Jiang Ming, He Keyang, Yan Xue, Ye Maolin, Wu Naiqin, Lu Houyuan (2021). Neolithic Rice Cultivation and Consequent Landscape Changes at the Baodun Site, Southwestern China. Frontiers in Earth Science. 9:807626. Doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.807626
18. Shao Konglan, Zhang Jianping*, He Keyang, Wang Can, Lu Houyuan (2021). Impacts of the Wetland Environment on Demographic Development During the Neolithic in the Lower Yangtze Region-Based on Peat and Archaeological Dates. Frontiers in Earth Science. 9: 635640.
19. Konglan Shao*, Jianping Zhang*, Houyuan Lu, Zhaoyan Gu, Bing Xu, Hongbo Zheng, Guoping Sun, Xiujia Huan, Keyang He, Yafei Zou, Naiqin Wu (2021). Process of rice domestication in relation to Holocene environmental changes in the Ningshao Plain, lower Yangtze. Geomorphology 381(5–6):107650.
20. Xiujia Huan, Houyuan Lu, Leping Jiang, Xinxin Zuo, Keyang He, Jianping Zhang (2021). Spatial and temporal pattern of rice domestication during the early Holocene in the lower Yangtze region, China. Holocene. 31 (9): 1366-1375
21. Fengjiang Li, Naiqin Wu, Yajie Dong , Dan Zhang, Yueting Zhang, Linpei Huang,Yiquan Yang, Deke Xu, Jianping Zhang, Houyuan Lü (2021). Land-snail eggs as a proxy of abrupt climatic cooling events during the reproductive season. Science Bulletin. 66:1274-1277.
    
    2020
22. Jianping Zhang*#, Houyuan Lu*#, Jiwei Jia, Caiming Shen, Shuyun Wang, Guoqiang Chu, Luo Wang, Anning Cui, Jiaqi Liu, Naiqin Wu, and Fengjiang Li (2020). Seasonal drought events in tropical East Asia over the last 60,000 y. PNAS. 117(49): 30988-30992.
23. YuanFeng Hu, Bin Zhou, YueHan Lu, JianPing Zhang, SiYu Min, MingZhe Dai,SiYu Xu, Qing Yang, HongBo Zheng (2020). Abundance and morphology of charcoal in sediments provide no evidence of massive slash-and-burn agriculture during the Neolithic Kuahuqiao culture, China. PLoS ONE. 15(8): e0237592.
24. Ge, Y, Lu, HY,  Zhang, JP, Wang, C, Gao, X (2020). Phytoliths in Inflorescence Bracts: Preliminary Results of an Investigation on Common Panicoideae Plants in China. Frontiers in plant science. 10:1736.
25. He KY, Lu HY, Li YN, Ding FY, Zhan, JP, Wang C (2020). Cultural response to Middle Holocene sea-level fluctuations in eastern China: a multi-proxy approach. Boreas 49(1):71-88.
26. Xiujia Huan, Houyuan Lu, Can Wang, Jianping Zhang (2020). Progress of rice bulliform phytolith research on wild–domesticated characteristics. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 59(4): 467-478. (in Chinese).
    
    2019
27. C. Wang, H. Y. Lu, J. P. Zhang, L. M. Mao, Y. Ge (2019). Bulliform Phytolith Size of Rice and Its Correlation With Hydrothermal Environment: A Preliminary Morphological Study on Species in Southern China. Frontiers in Plant Science 10: 1037.
28. Kangkang Li, Xiaoguang Qin, Lei Zhang, Shuzhi Wang, Bing Xu, Guijin Mu, Yong Wu, Xiaohong Tian, Dong Wei, Zhaoyan Gu, Chunxue Wang, Jianping Zhang, Deke Xu, Zihua Tang, Yongchong Lin, Wen Li Jiaqi Liu and Yinxin Jiao (2019). Oasis landscape of the ancient Loulan on the west bank of Lake Lop Nur, Northwest China, inferred from vegetation utilization for architecture. Holocene 29, 1030-1044.
29. Can Wang, Houyuan Lu, Wanfa Gu, Naiqin Wu, Jianping Zhang, Xinxin Zuo, Fengjiang Li, Daojing Wang, Yajie Dong, Songzhi Wang, Yanfeng Liu, Yingjian Baoa, Yayi Hu (2019) The development of Yangshao agriculture and its interaction with social dynamics in the middle Yellow River region, China. Holocene 29(1):173-180.
30. Jianping Zhang*, Hoiuyuan Lu Yong Ge, Konglan Shao (2019). Review and prospect of phytolith morphology on millets identification. Quaternary Sciences 39(1):1-11.(in Chinese)
    
    2018
31. Jianping Zhang*, Houyuan Lu*, Minxuan Liu, Xianmin Diao, Konglan Shao, Naiqin Wu  (2018) Phytolith analysis for differentiating between broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) and its weed/feral type (Panicum ruderale). Scientific Reports 8:13022: DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-31467-6
32. Xiujia Huan, Houyuan Lu, Jianping Zhang, Can Wang (2018) Phytolith assemblage analysis for the identification of rice paddy. Scientific Reports 8:10932 | DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-29172-5
33. Keyang He, Houyuan Lu Yunfei Zheng, Jianping Zhang, Deke Xu, Xiujia Huan, Jiehua Wang, Shao Lei (2018) Middle-Holocene sea-level fluctuations interrupted the developing Hemudu culture in the lower Yangtze River, China. Quaternary Science Reviews 188: 90-103.
34. Yong Ge, Houyuan Lu, Jianping Zhang, Can Wang, Keyang He, Xiujia Huan (2018) Phytolith analysis for the identification of barnyard millet (Echinochloa sp.) and its implications, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 10(1):61-73
35. Can Wang, Houyuan Lu, Wanfa Gu, Xinxin Zuo, Jianping Zhang, Yanfeng Liu, Yingjian Bao and Yayi Hu (2018). Temporal changes of mixed millet and rice agriculture in Neolithic-Bronze Age Central Plain, China: Archaeobotanical evidence from the Zhuzhai site. Holocene, 28(5):738-754.
    
    2017
36. Jianping Zhang*, Houyuan Lu, Peter Weiming Jia, Rowan Flad, Naiqin Wu, Alison Betts (2017). Cultivation strategies at the ancient Luanzagangzi settlementon the easternmost Eurasian steppe during the late Bronze Age. Vegetation History & Archaeobotany. 26:505-512. DOI 10.1007/s00334-017-0608-0
37. Xinin Zuo, Houyuan Lu*, Leping Jiang, Jianping Zhang*, Xiaoyan Yang, Xiujia Huana, Keyang He, Can Wang, and Naiqin Wu (2017) Dating Rice Remains Through Phytolith Carbon-14Study Reveals Domestication at the beginning of the Holocene. PNAS 114(25): 6486-6491.doi/10.1073/pnas.1704304114
38. Keyang He, Houyuan Lu, Jianping Zhang, Can Wang and Xiujia Huan (2017). Prehistoric evolution of the dualistic structure mixed rice and millet farming in China. Holocene, DOI:10.1177/0959683617708455.
39. Can Wang, Houyuan Lu, Wanfa Gu, Naiqin Wu, Jianping Zhang, Xinxin Zuo, Fengjiang Li, Daojing Wang, Yajie Dong, Songzhi Wang, Yanfeng Liu, Yingjian Bao, Yayi Hu. (2017) The spatial pattern of farming and factors influencing it during the Peiligang culture period in the middle Yellow River valley, China. Science Bulletin 62(23): 1565-1568
    
    2016
40. Jianping Zhang*, Houyuan Lu, Guoping Sun, Rowan Flad, Naiqin Wu, Xiujia Huan, Keyang He, Yonglei Wang (2016). Phytoliths reveal the earliest fine reedy textile in China at the Tianluoshan site. Scientific Reports 6:18664
41. Terry Ball, Karol Chandler-Ezell, Ruth Dickau, Neil Duncan, Thomas C. Hart, Jose Iriarte, Carol Lentfer, Amanda Logan, Houyuan Lu, Marco Madella, Deborah M. Pearsall, Dolores R. Piperno, Arlene M. Rosen, Luc Vrydaghs, Alison Weisskopf, Jianping Zhang (2016). Phytoliths as a tool for investigations of agricultural origins and dispersals around the world, Journal of Archaeological Science 68: 32-45.
42. Can Wang, Houyuan Lu, Jianping Zhang, Keyang He, Xiujia Huan (2016). Macro-Process of Past Plant Subsistence from the Upper Paleolithic to Middle Neolithic in China: A Quantitative Analysis of Multi-Archaeobotanical Data. PLoS ONE 11(2): e0148136
43. Xinxin Zuo, Houyuan Lu, Jianping Zhang, Can Wang, Guoping Sun, Yunfei Zheng (2016) Radiocarbon dating of prehistoric phytoliths: a preliminary study of archaeological sites in China, Scientific Reports, 6:26769
44. Houyuan Lu, Jianping Zhang, Yimin Yang, Xiaoyan Yang, Baiqing Xu, Wuzhan Yang, Tao Tong, Shubo Jin, Caiming Shen, Huiyun Rao, Xingguo Li, Hongliang Lu, Dorian Q Fuller, Luo Wang, Can Wang, Deke Xu, Naiqin Wu (2016). Earliest tea as evidence for one branch of the Silk Road across the Tibetan Plateau, Scientific Reports 6:18955
45. Yan Wu, Limi Mao, Can Wang, Jianping Zhang, Zhijun Zhao (2016). Phytolith evidence suggests early domesticated rice since 5600 cal a BP on Hainan Island of South China. Quaternary International 426: 120-125
    
    2015
46. Yang Xiaoyan, Fuller Dorian Q., Huan Xiujia, Perry Linda, Li Quan, Li Zhao, Zhang Jianping, Ma Zhikun, Zhuang Yijie, Jiang Leping, Ge Yong, Lu Houyuan. (2015) Barnyard grasses were processed with rice around 10000 years ago, Scientific Reports, 5:16251
    
    2014
47. Jianping Zhang*, Houyuan Lu, Linpei Huang (2014). Calciphytoliths (calcium oxalate crystals) analysis for the identification of decayed tea plants (Camellia sinensis L.). Scientific Reports 4: 6703
48. Can Wang, Houyuan Lu, Jianping Zhang, Zhaoyan Gu, Keyang He (2014). Prehistoric demographic fluctuations in China inferred from radiocarbon data and their linkage with climate change over the past 50,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 98: 45-59
49. Houyuan Lu, Yumei Li, Jianping Zhang, Xiaoyan Yang, Maolin Ye, Quan Li, Can Wang, Naiqin Wu (2014). Component and simulation of the 4,000-year-old noodles excavated from the archaeological site of Lajia in Qinghai, China. Chinese Science Bulletin 59(35):5136-5152
    
    2013
50. Jianping Zhang*, Houyuan Lu, Naiqin Wu, Xiaoguang Qin, Luo Wang (2013).   Palaeoenvironment and agriculture of ancient Loulan and Milan on the Silk Road. The Holocene 23(2) 208–217
51. Fengjiang Li, Naiqin Wu, Houyuan Lu, Jianping Zhang, Weilin Wang, Mingzhi Ma, Xiaohu Zhang, Xiaoyan Yang (2013). Mid-Neolithic Exploitation of Mollusks in the Guanzhong Basin of Northwestern China: Preliminary Results. PLoS ONE 8(3): e58999
    
    2012
52. Jianping Zhang*, Houyuan Lu, Wanfa Gu, Naiqin Wu, Kunshu Zhou, Yayi Hu, Yingjun Xin, Wang Can (2012). Early mixed farming of millet and rice 7800 years ago in the Middle Yellow River region, China. PLoS ONE 7(12): e52146
    
    2011
53. Jianping Zhang*, Houyuan Lu, Naiqin Wu, Xiaoyan Yang, Xianmin Diao (2011). Phytolith Analysis for Differentiating between Foxtail Millet (Setaria italica) and Green Foxtail (Setaria viridis). PLoS ONE 6(5): e19726
54. Xiaoyan Yang, Jianping Zhang, Linda Perry, Zhikun Ma, Zhiwei Wan, Mingqi Li, Xianmin Diao, Houyuan Lu (2011). From the modern to the archaeological: Starch grains from millets and their wild relatives in China. Journal of Archaeological Science. Journal of Archaeological Science 39(2): 247-254
    
    2010
55. Jianping Zhang*, Houyuan Lu, Naiqin Wu, Fengjiang Li, Xiaoyan Yang, Weilin Wang, Mingzhi Ma, Xiaohu Zhang (2010). Phytolith evidence for rice cultivation and spread in Mid-Late Neolithic archaeological sites in central North China. Boreas 39(3): 592-602
    
    2009
56. Houyuan Lu, Jianping Zhang, Kam-biu Liu, Naiqin Wu, Yumei Li, Kunshu Zhou, Maolin Ye, Zhang Tianyu, Zhang Haijiang, Yang Xiaoyan, Shen Licheng, Xu Deke, Li Quan (2009). Earliest domestication of common millet (Panicum miliaceum) in East Asia extended to 10,000 years ago. PNAS 106(18): 7367-7372
57. Houyuan Lu, Jianping Zhang, Naiqin Wu, Kam-biu Liu, Deke Xu, Quan Li (2009). Phytoliths Analysis for the Discrimination of Foxtail Millet (Setaria italica) and Common Millet (Panicum miliaceum). PLoS ONE 4(2): e4448
58. Xiaoyan Yang, Changjiang Liu, Jianping Zhang, Wuzhan Yang, Xiaohu Zhang, Houyuan Lu (2009). Plant crop remains from the outer burial pit of the Han Yangling Mausoleum and their significance to Early Western Han agriculture. Chinese Science Bulletin 54(10): 1738-1743