The Climate Fluctuation of the 8.2 ka BP Cooling Event and the Transition into Neolithic Lifeways in North China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15801865 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chao Zhao (0000-0002-7071-7918, Northwest University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 23-23 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Quaternary (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2571-550X • E-ISSN: 2571-550X |
| Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3390/quat3030023 |
| OpenAlex | W3047069409 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 55 |
Early Neolithic lifeways in North China, which are marked by a low-level food production economy, population aggregation, and sedentism, thrived just after the period of a climatic cooling event at 8.2 ka. Instead of simply regarding this climate fluctuation as a cause for the significant socio-economic transition, this paper attempts to explore the interplay between people’s choices of coping strategies with climate change as a perspective to learn how people respond to this climate fluctuation and how such responses generated the interlocked socio-economic transitions. This analysis indicates that pre-existing changes in human adaptive behaviors prior to the cooling events were sufficient to enable people in certain areas to apply the intensification of food procurement in circumscribed territories as a strategy to cope with the climate fluctuations of the 8.2 ka BP cooling event. The application of such a coping strategy facilitated the economic and sociopolitical transition into Neolithic lifeways and led to the flourishing development of Neolithic cultures after 8 ka BP in North China
Adaptive strategies · Archaeology · Biology · China · Climate change · Coping (psychology · Economics · Economy · Flourishing · Geography · Global cooling · Population · Sociology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Demography · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Psychology · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 1,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |