Human subsistence strategy in the Ordos Plateau, Inner Mongolia, China, during the Qin and Han dynasties
Using stable isotope analysis
Datos Bibliográficos
This article aims to reveal the subsistence economy of the Qin and Han empires and why they continued to advance northward to defeat the Huns (Xiongnu 匈奴) and other grassland peoples in the Ordos Plateau. We present the δ13C and δ15N results for the dietary reconstruction of animals and humans from the Fuluta cemetery in the Ordos Plateau, a nomadic farming junction area, from the late Qin dynasty (221-207 BCE) to the Western Han dynasty (202 BCE to 8 AD). Results show that the δ13C and δ15N values for humans (−8.5 ± 0.4‰, 9.2 ± 0.5‰, n = 29), pigs (−8.6 ± 1.4‰, 7.7 ± 1.1‰, n = 3) and dogs (−9.1 ± 0.3‰, 7.7 ± 0.4‰, n = 3) were generally higher than those for cattle (−15.7 ± 1.4‰, 6.5 ± 1.0‰, n = 8) and sheep (−17.8 ± 0.9‰, 6.2 ± 1.6‰, n = 11), indicating humans, pigs and dogs may have relied primarily on C4-based food (millet), whereas cattle and sheep mainly relied on C3-based food (wild plants). Related research shows that the diet of the population of the Fuluta cemetery was relatively homogenous and mainly based on millet agriculture and domestic animals, such as pigs, indicating that millet-based agriculture was narrowly focused on for subsistence in the frontier region of northern China. The results of stable isotope work of the past populations in the surrounding areas of the Ordos Plateau from the period of the late Western Zhou dynasty (1046-771 BCE) to the Han dynasties (202 BCE to 220 AD) show trends of northward advancement and stability of the agricultural economy were constantly strengthening. Therefore, agriculturalization in the Ordos Plateau may have been the motivating force for Qin and Han imperial expansion into the frontier region
Agriculture · Ancient history · Animal science · Archaeology · Biology · China · Frontier · Geography · Grassland · Inner mongolia · Population · Subsistence agriculture · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Demography · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology
A Brief Discussion on the Research Progress of Chinese Qin and Han History in the New Era
Subsistence economy in the eastern Ordos Plateau, China during the late Warring States Period (c. 221 BCE) by stable isotope analysis
Agricultural development in southern Shandong, northern China, from the Warring States to the Han dynasty
Isotopic evidence for the dietary shift and adoption of exotic crops in Xinding Basin, China over the past 4000 years
Subsistence strategies and climate change as key factors in the vicinity of the Great Wall in northern China from 500 BCE
Zooarchaeology
Agricultural origins and the isotopic identity of domestication in northern China
Experimental Evidence for the Relationship of the Carbon Isotope Ratios of Whole Diet and Dietary Protein to Those of Bone Collagen and Carbonate
Shifting diets and the rise of male-biased inequality on the Central Plains of China during Eastern Zhou
Postmortem preservation and alteration of in vivo bone collagen isotope ratios in relation to palaeodietary reconstruction
The Perilous Frontier
Human subsistence strategy at Liuzhuang site, Henan, China during the proto-Shang culture (∼2000–1600 BC) by stable isotopic analysis
The Cambridge History of China
Ancient China and its Enemies
Stable isotopic analysis of human diet in the Marianas Archipelago, Western Pacific
Isotopic evidence for the expansion of wheat consumption in northern China
Holocene climatic reconstructions from the fossil pollen record at Qigai Nuur in the southern Mongolian Plateau
Iron Age pastoral nomadism and agriculture in the eastern Eurasian steppe
Stable isotope dietary analysis of prehistoric populations from the Minusinsk Basin, Southern Siberia, Russia
Temporal trends in millet consumption in northern China
The extent of cereal cultivation among the Bronze Age to Turkic period societies of Kazakhstan determined using stable isotope analysis of bone collagen
Stable Isotope Evidence for Similarities in the Types of Marine Foods Used by Late Mesolithic Humans at Sites Along the Atlantic Coast of Europe
Nitrogen isotopes and the trophic level of humans in archaeology
Reconstructing northern Chinese Neolithic subsistence practices by isotopic analysis
Preparation and characterization of bone and tooth collagen for isotopic analysis
The Empire of the Steppes
Improved Collagen Extraction by Modified Longin Method
How ‘Pastoral’ is Pastoralism? Dietary Diversity in B ronze A ge C ommunities in the Central K azakhstan Steppes
Archaeology of the Eurasian Steppes and Mongolia
Osteological evidence of violence during the formation of the Chinese northern nomadic cultural belt in the Bronze Age
Winter is coming
| Obras citantes distintas | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 2,5 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 5 |