Mid to late Holocene climate changes and grazing activities in northern Loess Plateau, China

doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112261

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	Mid to late Holocene climate changes and grazing activities in northern Loess Plateau, China
	Zhang, Yaping 1,2; Zhang, Guilin 3; Zhao, Keliang1,2,6,7 ; Wang, Jian 4; Vicziany, Marika 1,5; Zhou, Xinying1,2 ; Li, Xiaoqiang1,2
	2024-08-01
发表期刊	PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
ISSN	0031-0182
卷号	647 页码:10
通讯作者	Zhao, Keliang([email protected])
摘要	Despite the importance of pastoralism, as an alternative or adjunct to farming in China's long history, a clear understanding of the spreading routes and mechanisms of pastoralism in China is lacking. Fungal spores can be a useful addition to zooarchaeological evidence and have been widely used to explore the origins and development of pastoralism in different regions of the globe. The northern Loess Plateau is one of the most important areas for the emergence and development of pastoralism in early China. The aim of this paper was to take the fungal spores in the Baihemiao (BHM) core that we extracted from a site in the Yulin region, combine them with the zooarchaeological records to explore their relationship with climate and environmental changes, and reconstruct the evolution of animal husbandry in the northern Loess Plateau since the mid-Holocene. The results indicate that the climatic conditions in the northern Loess Plateau during the first period of 6-4.2 ka were relatively humid, the number of domesticated herbivores was small, animal husbandry was not developed, and the spores of coprophilous fungi in the sediments mainly originated from wild herbivores. Fungal spores as well as zooarchaeological evidence reveal that cattle and sheep grazing developed rapidly in the region during the second period, c. 4.2-3 ka. We suggest that the arid climatic conditions during this period facilitated the development of pastoral activities in the northern Loess Plateau. However, this pastoral economy gradually weakened after 1.2 ka.
关键词	Pastoralism 4.2 ka Herbivores Sheep Sporormiella Northern Loess Plateau Spores of coprophilous fungi
DOI	10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112261
关键词[WOS]	POLLEN ; VEGETATION ; SITE
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[42072212] ; National Key Research and Development Program of China[2022YFF0801102] ; National Key Research and Development Program of China[2022YFF0801502] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[42303017]
项目资助者	National Natural Science Foundation of China ; National Key Research and Development Program of China ; National Natural Science Foundation of China
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology ; Paleontology
WOS类目	Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary ; Paleontology
WOS记录号	WOS:001241768500001
出版者	ELSEVIER
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/23726
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Zhao, Keliang
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Earth & Planetary Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 3.Chongqing Normal Univ, Hist & Social Work Coll, Chongqing 401331, Peoples R China 4.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Archaeol & Anthropol, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 5.Monash Univ, Natl Ctr South Asian Studies, Melbourne 3145, Australia 6.Griffith Univ, Australian Res Ctr Human Evolut, Brisbane, Qld 4111, Australia 7.142 Xizhimenwai St, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Yaping,Zhang, Guilin,Zhao, Keliang,et al. Mid to late Holocene climate changes and grazing activities in northern Loess Plateau, China[J]. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY,2024,647:10.
APA	Zhang, Yaping.,Zhang, Guilin.,Zhao, Keliang.,Wang, Jian.,Vicziany, Marika.,...&Li, Xiaoqiang.(2024).Mid to late Holocene climate changes and grazing activities in northern Loess Plateau, China.PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY,647,10.
MLA	Zhang, Yaping,et al."Mid to late Holocene climate changes and grazing activities in northern Loess Plateau, China".PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY 647(2024):10.