Prehistoric demographic fluctuations in China inferred from radiocarbon data and their linkage with climate change over the past 50,000 years

C Wang, H Lu, J Zhang, Z Gu, K He - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Historic human–climate interactions have been of interest to scholars for a long time.
However, exploring the long-term relation between prehistoric demography and climate …

How old is the human footprint in the world's largest alpine ecosystem? A review of multiproxy records from the Tibetan Plateau from the ecologists' viewpoint

G Miehe, S Miehe, J Böhner, K Kaiser, I Hensen… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
The age at which a human environment was made is strongly debated in Quaternary
science. The perception of the human footprint requires an understanding of the contrast …

Agriculture facilitated permanent human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau after 3600 BP

FH Chen, GH Dong, DJ Zhang, XY Liu, X Jia, CB An… - science, 2015 - science.org
Our understanding of when and how humans adapted to living on the Tibetan Plateau at
altitudes above 2000 to 3000 meters has been constrained by a paucity of archaeological …

The earliest human occupation of the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau 40 thousand to 30 thousand years ago

XL Zhang, BB Ha, SJ Wang, ZJ Chen, JY Ge, H Long… - Science, 2018 - science.org
The Tibetan Plateau is the highest and one of the most demanding environments ever
inhabited by humans. We investigated the timing and mechanisms of its initial colonization …

[HTML][HTML] 青藏高原东北部沙隆卡遗址史前人群活动和生存环境基础

王宗礼, 曹辉辉, 肖永明, 何建华, 张山佳, 董广辉 - 第四纪研究, 2021 - html.rhhz.net
位于黄河上游群尖盆地的沙隆卡遗址是青藏高原东北部目前唯一同时出土旧石器,
新石器和青铜文化遗存的遗址, 但由于缺乏系统考古发掘和测年工作, 该遗址史前人类活动历史 …

Genetic evidence of paleolithic colonization and neolithic expansion of modern humans on the tibetan plateau

X Qi, C Cui, Y Peng, X Zhang, Z Yang… - Molecular biology …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Tibetans live on the highest plateau in the world, their current population size is
approximately 5 million, and most of them live at an altitude exceeding 3,500 m. Therefore …

Last deglacial and Holocene lake level variations of Qinghai Lake, north‐eastern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

XJUN LIU, Z Lai, D Madsen… - Journal of Quaternary …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Qinghai Lake is of significance for paleoclimate research because it lies in a pivotal region
that is influenced by both the mid‐latitude Westerlies and the low‐latitude Asian summer …

[HTML][HTML] 丝绸之路与泛第三极地区人类活动, 环境变化和丝路文明兴衰

陈发虎, 安成邦, 董广辉, 张东菊 - 中国科学院院刊, 2017 - old2022.bulletin.cas.cn
泛第三极地区主要包括了青藏高原和其北侧的亚洲内陆干旱区, 西至高加索等山脉,
东至黄土高原西部. 该区地处欧亚大陆腹地, 是史前和历史时期东西方交流的主要通道 …

Spatial and temporal variety of prehistoric human settlement and its influencing factors in the upper Yellow River valley, Qinghai Province, China

G Dong, X Jia, R Elston, F Chen, S Li, L Wang… - Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
We report an investigation of forty-two prehistoric sites in the upper Yellow River valley
located in Guide, Jianzha, Hualong, Xunha and Minhe, Qinghai Province, China, including …

Developmental functional adaptation to high altitude

AR Frisancho - American Journal of Human Biology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Various approaches have been used to understand the origins of the functional traits that
characterize the Andean high‐altitude native. Based on the conceptual framework of …