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DOI	10.1177/0959683619831423
	Oasis landscape of the ancient Loulan on the west bank of Lake Lop Nur, Northwest China, inferred from vegetation utilization for architecture
	Li, Kangkang 1,2,3; Qin, Xiaoguang 1,2; Zhang, Lei 1,4; Wang, Shuzhi 5; Xu, Bing 1,3; Mu, Guijin6 ; Wu, Yong 7; Tian, Xiaohong 7; Wei, Dong 8; Gu, Zhaoyan 1,3; Wang, Chunxue 8; Zhang, Jianping 1; Xu, Deke 1; Tang, Zihua 1; Lin, Yongchong 6,9; Li, Wen 6; Liu, Jiaqi 1,3; Jiao, Yinxin 10
通讯作者	Li, Kangkang ; Qin, Xiaoguang
来源期刊	HOLOCENE
ISSN	0959-6836
EISSN	1477-0911
出版年	2019
卷号	29 期号:6 页码:1030-1044
英文摘要	The ancient Loulan, situated on the west bank of Lake Lop Nur, Xinjiang, Northwest China, was an important town on the Silk Road connecting China to Europe. However, this once-prosperous kingdom has been a depopulated zone filled with wind-eroded mounds since approximately AD 500-600. A comprehensive understanding of the environmental setting of the flourishing Loulan civilization is a prerequisite for assessing environment-human interaction there. Here, we present our survey, chronology, and archaeobotany (the identification of plant remains) of vegetation use for architecture from eight ancient ruins of the Loulan kingdom to clarify the ecological landscape on the west bank of Lake Lop Nur and to assess paleoenvironmental conditions when the Loulan kingdom flourished. Our results suggest that Populus euphratica, tamarisk (Tamarix Linn), and reed (Phragmites Trin.) were most widely used as building materials in this period. Wood utilization for buildings depended entirely on indigenous vegetation rather than that of the mountains in the Loulan kingdom, even though the Loulan was a predominant transportation hub on the prosperous Silk Road. Our reconstruction indicates that the west bank of Lake Lop Nur was sufficiently wetter than present conditions to support riparian forest growth composed mainly of P. euphratica, tamarisk shrubs, and reed meadows, until approximately AD 500. These wetter conditions and flourishing civilization accompanied an increase in precipitation in arid central Asia. Conversely, combined evidence of both archeological and paleoclimatic records from the water sources of Lake Lop Nur and ancient oases suggest that abrupt decreased mountain precipitation could be considered a significant environmental factor in the decline of Loulan kingdom.
英文关键词	ecological landscape Lop Nur Loulan kingdom precipitation Silk Road vegetation utilization
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Peoples R China
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000485295500008
WOS关键词	CENTRAL TIAN-SHAN ; TARIM BASIN ; SOUTHERN XINJIANG ; HOLOCENE HISTORY ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; KERIYA RIVER ; CENTRAL-ASIA ; PLANT USE ; SITE ; PALEOENVIRONMENT
WOS类目	Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology
来源机构	中国科学院新疆生态与地理研究所 ; 中国科学院地质与地球物理研究所
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/216130
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geol & Geophys, Key Lab Cenozo Geol & Environm, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China; 2.CAS Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Beijing, Peoples R China; 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China; 4.Chinese Acad Geol Sci, Inst Geomech, Beijing, Peoples R China; 5.Chinese Acad Social Sci, Inst Archaeol, Beijing, Peoples R China; 6.Chinese Acad Sci, Xinjiang Inst Ecol & Geog, Beijing, Peoples R China; 7.Xinjiang Inst Archaeol, Xinjiang, Peoples R China; 8.Jilin Univ, Sch Archaeol, Changchun, Jilin, Peoples R China; 9.Minnan Normal Univ, Sch Hist & Geog, Zhangzhou, Peoples R China; 10.Bur Cultural Heritage Ruoqiang Cty, Xinjiang, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Kangkang,Qin, Xiaoguang,Zhang, Lei,et al. Oasis landscape of the ancient Loulan on the west bank of Lake Lop Nur, Northwest China, inferred from vegetation utilization for architecture[J]. 中国科学院新疆生态与地理研究所, 中国科学院地质与地球物理研究所,2019,29(6):1030-1044.
APA	Li, Kangkang.,Qin, Xiaoguang.,Zhang, Lei.,Wang, Shuzhi.,Xu, Bing.,...&Jiao, Yinxin.(2019).Oasis landscape of the ancient Loulan on the west bank of Lake Lop Nur, Northwest China, inferred from vegetation utilization for architecture.HOLOCENE,29(6),1030-1044.
MLA	Li, Kangkang,et al."Oasis landscape of the ancient Loulan on the west bank of Lake Lop Nur, Northwest China, inferred from vegetation utilization for architecture".HOLOCENE 29.6(2019):1030-1044.