title: Asian archaeology. Response to Comment on "Agriculture facilitated permanent human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau after 3600 B.P.".
abstract: Guedes et al. have drawn attention to a mismatch between the predictions of their "thermal niche model" and the records we have published of early barley finds in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Here, we consider how that mismatch usefully draws our attention to the additional variables that may account for it-namely, variations in genetic expression and agricultural practice.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China. ghdong@lzu.edu.cn liuxinyi@wustl.edu.
authors.forename: Guanghui
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.
authors.forename: Dongju
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA. ghdong@lzu.edu.cn liuxinyi@wustl.edu.
authors.forename: Xinyi
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.
authors.forename: Fengwen
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.
authors.forename: Fahu
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3ER, UK.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000266:history*; D000531:Altitude; D006801:Humans