[Special Section on the Yiluo Project] the Role of Environmental Change in the Development of Complex Societies in China
A Study From the Huizui Site
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11227636 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A M Rosen (0000-0002-1296-2851, University College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 0 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-05 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0156-1316 • E-ISSN: 1835-1794 |
| Publisher | University of Washington Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.7152/bippa.v27i0.11975 |
| OpenAlex | W2035210885 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
Holocene environmental change on the Loess Plateau of China presented both opportunities and challenges for populations inhabiting the region. A study of sediment sections within the catchment of the Yiluo River, Henan Province, indicates a sequence beginning with a stable landscape and high water tables in the early MidHolocene corresponding to the Peiligang occupation, shifting to a period of valley alluviation in the later MidHolocene at the time of the Yangshao occupation. Alluvial sediments dating from 5300/5010 cal. BC through 2130/1870 cal. BC are waterlogged deposits that contain sediment and phytolith evidence for the first rice paddy farming in this region. This coincides with the first migration of rice farmers to the area in the Yangshao Period ca. 5500 cal. BC. After ca. 2000 cal. BC stream incision in this catchment led to narrowing floodplains, the disappearance of the marsh deposits, and a reduction in land available for paddy farming. Ironically, this period coincided with the first Chinese state society and large population increases, necessitating new agricultural and economic strategies on the part of the Early Bronze Age inhabitants of the Loess Plateau. This study illustrates how human responses to environmental change depend on social as well as environmental considerations
Archaeology · China · Climate change · Engineering physics · Environmental change · Environmental planning · Geography · Political science · Regional science · Section (typography · Special section · Computer Science · Engineering · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Soil erosion and sediment transport · Geology · Oceanography
Anthropogenic origins of a late Holocene, basin-wide unconformity in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, the Luoyang Basin, Henan Province, China
Early–middle Holocene ecological change and its influence on human subsistence strategies in the Luoyang Basin, north-central China
Geoarchaeology in China
Millet grain morphometry as a tool for social inference
Anthropocene archaeology of the Yellow River, China, 5000–2000 BP
The Anthropocene and the landscape of Confucius
A wet and dry story
Holocene landscape evolution in northern Henan Province and its implications for archaeological surveys
Pig domestication and husbandry practices in the middle Neolithic of the Wei River Valley, northwest China
Rising social complexity, agricultural intensification, and the earliest rice paddies on the Loess Plateau of northern China
Geomorphological and sedimentological precautions in radiocarbon dating of eolian and lacustrine sequences in arid Asia
| Citations per year | 0.79 |
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| Citation span | 2012 - 2022 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |