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DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0217171
	Farming strategies of 1st millennium CE agro-pastoralists on the southern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains: A geoarchaeological and macrobotanical investigation of the Mohuchahangoukou (MGK) site, Xinjiang, China
	Li, Yuqi 1; Storozum, Michael 2; Tian, Duo 3,4; Frachetti, Michael 5,6; Su, Kai 6; Wang, Xin 7
通讯作者	Li, Yuqi ; Storozum, Michael
来源期刊	PLOS ONE
ISSN	1932-6203
出版年	2019
卷号	14 期号:6
英文摘要	Archaeological evidence emerging over the past decade clearly illustrates that agro-pastoralists living along the foothills of major mountain chains in Central Asia (the so-called Inner Asian Mountain Corridor or IAMC) facilitated the spread of domesticated grains through their direct involvement in farming. While the environmental conditions across the northwestern slopes of the IAMC provided adequate resources for incipient farming and herding as early as the mid-3rd mill. BCE, the development of local agricultural strategies on the extremely arid and eroded foothills on the southeastern, leeward side of the mountains remain comparatively less studied. Our study tackles this problem by combining geoarchaeological analysis with conventional macrobotanical identification in the investigation of a 1st-mill. CE agro-pastoralist farming site, Mohuchahangoukou (MGK), located on the arid foothills of the Tianshan range. Our results illustrate how ancient agro-pastoralists at MGK innovated irrigation systems both to combat water shortage and, importantly, to trap sediments carried by flood-water for crop cultivation. By synthesizing currently available data, we estimate that they managed to trap about 40 cm of fine-grained sediment within a span of 200 years or even less. These stone-built field systems helped water a diverse stand of crops and create deeper soils in an otherwise deflated landscape with thin desert soils. Since we detected high levels of salt concentration (>2 dSm(-1)) in the lower portions of all three test trenches we analyzed, we conclude that soil salinization might have affected the long-term sustainability of this form of irrigated field management. We also infer that, besides engineering efforts, the ancient agro-pastoralists at MGK had to resolve the scheduling conflicts between irrigated farming and animal herding through labor specialization.
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Peoples R China ; USA
开放获取类型	gold, Green Published, Green Submitted
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000470087800019
WOS关键词	BRONZE-AGE ; XIAOHE CEMETERY ; EURASIAN STEPPE ; ORGANIC-MATTER ; CENTRAL-ASIA ; SOIL ; AGRICULTURE ; LANDSCAPE ; MILLET ; PASTORALISTS
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
来源机构	南京大学
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/218111
作者单位	1.Nanjing Univ, Sch Hist, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Peoples R China; 2.Fudan Univ, Inst Archaeol Sci, Shanghai, Peoples R China; 3.Northwest Univ, Sch Cultural Heritage, Xian, Shaanxi, Peoples R China; 4.Northwest Univ, Inst Middle Eastern Studies, Xian, Shaanxi, Peoples R China; 5.Washington Univ, Dept Anthropol, SAIE Lab, St Louis, MO 63130 USA; 6.Washington Univ, Dept Anthropol, St Louis, MO 63130 USA; 7.Hejing Cty Off Preservat Ancient Monuments, Hejing, Xinjiang, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Yuqi,Storozum, Michael,Tian, Duo,et al. Farming strategies of 1st millennium CE agro-pastoralists on the southern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains: A geoarchaeological and macrobotanical investigation of the Mohuchahangoukou (MGK) site, Xinjiang, China[J]. 南京大学,2019,14(6).
APA	Li, Yuqi,Storozum, Michael,Tian, Duo,Frachetti, Michael,Su, Kai,&Wang, Xin.(2019).Farming strategies of 1st millennium CE agro-pastoralists on the southern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains: A geoarchaeological and macrobotanical investigation of the Mohuchahangoukou (MGK) site, Xinjiang, China.PLOS ONE,14(6).
MLA	Li, Yuqi,et al."Farming strategies of 1st millennium CE agro-pastoralists on the southern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains: A geoarchaeological and macrobotanical investigation of the Mohuchahangoukou (MGK) site, Xinjiang, China".PLOS ONE 14.6(2019).