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| Human activity and its impact on the landscape at the Xishanping site in the western Loess Plateau during 4800-4300 cal yr BP based on the fossil charcoal record | |
| Li, Xiaoqiang1,2; Sun, Nan1,2; Dodson, John3; Zhou, Xinying1; [email protected] | |
| 2012-10-01 | |
| 发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
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| ISSN | 0305-4403 |
| 卷号 | 39期号:10页码:3141-3147 |
| 文章类型 | Article |
| 摘要 | The taxonomic identification of fossil charcoal can be a useful archaeobotanical tool, as it can reveal information about prehistoric humans' use of plant resources and other factors. In this study, we quantify the fossil charcoal in a cultural sequence from Xishanping in the western Loess Plateau of China representing 4800-4300 cal yr BP to consider aspects of humans' impact on this landscape. The fossil charcoal assemblages reveal that the relative abundances of Picea, Betula, Acer, Ulmus and Quercus decreased markedly after 4600 cal yr BP. This suggests a marked decline in the mixed coniferous-broadleaved forest after this time. Concurrently, an increasing abundance of Bambusoideae charcoal has been suggested to reflect the expansion of the bamboo forest. The marked changes in the vegetation after 4600 cal yr BP were not obviously influenced by climate; they may be a better reflection of the results of human activity. Furthermore, other genera that provide important resources to humans also increased after 4600 cal yr BP, including Castanea, Cerasus, Padus and Diospyros. It is nearly certain that nuts and berries were an important food resource and that fruit trees were managed by prehistoric humans in the late Neolithic. This work suggests that the scale of prehistoric human impact on the western Loess Plateau landscape during the late Neolithic was much greater than was previously believed. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
| 关键词 | Fossil Charcoal Xishanping Site Western Loess Plateau 4800-4300 Cal Yr Bp Human Activity Impact |
| WOS标题词 | Science & Technology ; Social Sciences ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine ; Physical Sciences |
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| 关键词[WOS] | CLIMATE-CHANGE ; CHINA ; AGRICULTURE ; RECONSTRUCTION ; MONSOON ; ASIA ; AGE |
| 收录类别 | SCI ; SSCI ; AHCI |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS研究方向 | Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Geology |
| WOS类目 | Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000308452600009 |
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4263 |
| 专题 | 中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后） |
| 通讯作者 | [email protected] |
| 作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Lab Human Evolut, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Palaeoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Earth Environm, State Lab Loess & Quaternary Geol, Xian 710075, Shaanxi, Peoples R China 3.Australian Nucl Sci & Technol Org, Inst Environm Res, Kirrawee, NSW 2232, Australia |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Li, Xiaoqiang,Sun, Nan,Dodson, John,et al. Human activity and its impact on the landscape at the Xishanping site in the western Loess Plateau during 4800-4300 cal yr BP based on the fossil charcoal record[J]. JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE,2012,39(10):3141-3147. |
| APA | Li, Xiaoqiang,Sun, Nan,Dodson, John,Zhou, Xinying,[email protected].(2012).Human activity and its impact on the landscape at the Xishanping site in the western Loess Plateau during 4800-4300 cal yr BP based on the fossil charcoal record.JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE,39(10),3141-3147. |
| MLA | Li, Xiaoqiang,et al."Human activity and its impact on the landscape at the Xishanping site in the western Loess Plateau during 4800-4300 cal yr BP based on the fossil charcoal record".JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE 39.10(2012):3141-3147. |
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