Menghan Qiu is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University. He received his B.S. degree at Lanzhou University in 2014. He has been investigating human–environment interactions in prehistoric Xinjiang for six years. His research interests are 1) social evolution, climatic–environmental change, and human–environment interactions in prehistoric Xinjiang; 2) resource utilization and human subsistence during the Bronze and Early Iron Ages in the arid Central Asia region; and 3) human migration, technological spread, and cultural communication along the steppe–oasis road network.