In the estuary region of the Yangtze River (China), the oldest Neolithic civilization based on paddy rice cultivation flourished in the mid-Holocene (7.5–4.2 cal. kyr BP). However …
The first book to comprehensively assess anthropology's engagement with climate change, this pioneering volume both maps out exciting trajectories for research and issues a call to …
Asian monsoon records are widely documented, but specific proxies of monsoonal rainfall are limited. We present here two new independent proxy records from peatland and …
Between 5 and 4 thousand years ago, crippling megadroughts led to the disruption of ancient civilizations across parts of Africa and Asia, yet the extent of these climate extremes …
DQ Fuller, L Qin - World Archaeology, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Asian rice occurs in two wild types with differing ecologies that would have necessitated rather different systems of exploitation among early hunter-gatherers and cultivators. The …
C Leipe, D Demske, PE Tarasov, HP Members - Quaternary International, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new fossil pollen record from Tso Moriri (32° 54′ N, 78° 19′ E, 4512 m asl) and seeks to reconstruct changes in mean annual precipitation (MAP) during the last …
J Park, J Park, S Yi, J Cheul Kim, E Lee, J Choi - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Holocene abrupt cooling events have long attracted attention in academia due to public concern that similar rapid changes may reappear in the near future. Thus, considerable …
DJ Cohen - Current Anthropology, 2011 - journals.uchicago.edu
By 9000 cal BP, the first sedentary villages, marking the Early Neolithic, are present in Northeast China, North China, and the Middle and Lower Yangtze regions, but plant and …
R Ke, X Xiao, C Chi, A Hillman, B Jia… - Science China Earth …, 2023 - Springer
Our knowledge about the interaction between human activities and the environment in the middle-late Holocene remains incomplete. Core C1 in Lake Chaohu from the middle and …