Climate as a factor for Neolithic cultural collapses approximately 4000 years BP in China

Q Sun, Y Liu, B Wünnemann, Y Peng, X Jiang… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Although archaeological findings show the synchronous collapses of major well-
documented Chinese Neolithic cultures around 4000 cal. yr BP, the driving mechanism for …

Extraordinary cold episodes during the mid-Holocene in the Yangtze delta: Interruption of the earliest rice cultivating civilization

H Kajita, H Kawahata, K Wang, H Zheng, S Yang… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

[图书][B] Anthropology and climate change: from encounters to actions

SA Crate, M Nuttall - 2016 - books.google.com
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 …

Concordant monsoon-driven postglacial hydrological changes in peat and stalagmite records and their impacts on prehistoric cultures in central China

S Xie, RP Evershed, X Huang, Z Zhu… - …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
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 …

End of Green Sahara amplified mid-to late Holocene megadroughts in mainland Southeast Asia

ML Griffiths, KR Johnson, FSR Pausata… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
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 …

Water management and labour in the origins and dispersal of Asian rice

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 …

A Holocene pollen record from the northwestern Himalayan lake Tso Moriri: implications for palaeoclimatic and archaeological research

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 …

Abrupt Holocene climate shifts in coastal East Asia, including the 8.2 ka, 4.2 ka, and 2.8 ka BP events, and societal responses on the Korean peninsula

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 …

The beginnings of agriculture in China: A multiregional view

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 …

Middle-late Holocene environment change induced by climate and human based on multi-proxy records from the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River, eastern …

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 …