KMS Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
| Fruit collection and early evidence for horticulture in the Hexi Corridor, NW China, based on charcoal evidence | |
| Shen, Hui1,2,3; Zhou, Xinying1,2,3; Betts, Alison4; Jia, Peter Weiming4; Zhao, Keliang1,2,3; Li, Xiaoqiang1,2,3 | |
| 2019-03-01 | |
| 发表期刊 | VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY
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| ISSN | 0939-6314 |
| 卷号 | 28期号:2页码:187-197 |
| 摘要 | The reconstruction of fruit collection and cultivation based on plant remains plays an important role in understanding the subsistence strategies of ancient societies. Here, we report the identification of fossil charcoal from eight sites in the Hexi Corridor to give a clue to the early exploitation of fruit resources in the period 2300-400 BC. Charcoal assemblages show that millet farmers may have collected some tree fruits including bird cherry (Padus sp.), pear (Pyrus sp.) and whitebeam (Sorbus sp.) in the period 2300-2000 BC. From 2000 to 1500 BC there was continuing utilization of Padus sp., Sorbus sp. and cotoneaster (Cotoneaster sp.), at a time when cereal agriculture of wheat and barley had been introduced from outside. Based on analysis of ecological distribution, reproductive biology and the history of utilization, we infer that these fruits were gathered from the wild rather than cultivated. Later, the cultivation of non-native mulberry (Morus alba) began around 1500 BC in the context of an established high-yield wheat agriculture, probably indicating the earliest sign of horticulture in the Hexi Corridor. As with the beginning of agriculture, the horticulture is associated with cultivation of non-native species. In short, the variations in the presence of charred wood of fruit trees indicate that people might have collected wild fruits over a period of time, and that horticulture occurred much later than the spread of a variety of cereal and other crops in the Hexi Corridor. |
| 关键词 | Hexi Corridor Fossil charcoal Fruit trees Mulberry Horticulture |
| DOI | 10.1007/s00334-018-0691-x |
| 关键词[WOS] | CAL YR BP ; LOESS PLATEAU ; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE ; FOSSIL CHARCOAL ; YANGHAI TOMBS ; BRONZE-AGE ; WOOD ; L. ; IMPACT ; GANSU |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 资助项目 | National Basic Research Program of China[2015CB953803] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41730319] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41371003] |
| WOS研究方向 | Plant Sciences ; Paleontology |
| WOS类目 | Plant Sciences ; Paleontology |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000459227100005 |
| 出版者 | SPRINGER |
| 引用统计 | |
| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/9396 |
| 专题 | 中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所 |
| 通讯作者 | Li, Xiaoqiang |
| 作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origin, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.CAS Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Earth & Planetary Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 4.Univ Sydney, Dept Archaeol, China Studies Ctr, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Shen, Hui,Zhou, Xinying,Betts, Alison,et al. Fruit collection and early evidence for horticulture in the Hexi Corridor, NW China, based on charcoal evidence[J]. VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY,2019,28(2):187-197. |
| APA | Shen, Hui,Zhou, Xinying,Betts, Alison,Jia, Peter Weiming,Zhao, Keliang,&Li, Xiaoqiang.(2019).Fruit collection and early evidence for horticulture in the Hexi Corridor, NW China, based on charcoal evidence.VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY,28(2),187-197. |
| MLA | Shen, Hui,et al."Fruit collection and early evidence for horticulture in the Hexi Corridor, NW China, based on charcoal evidence".VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY 28.2(2019):187-197. |
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