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DOI	10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102915
	Climate as a factor for Neolithic cultural collapses approximately 4000 years BP in China
	Sun, Qianli 1; Liu, Yan 1; Wunnemann, Bernd 1,2; Peng, Yajun 1; Jiang, Xuezhong 3; Deng, Lanjie 1; Chen, Jing 1; Li, Maotian 1; Chen, Zhongyuan 1
通讯作者	Wunnemann, Bernd
来源期刊	EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS
ISSN	0012-8252
EISSN	1872-6828
出版年	2019
卷号	197
英文摘要	Although archaeological findings show the synchronous collapses of major well-documented Chinese Neolithic cultures around 4000 cal. yr BP, the driving mechanism for the phenomenon is still unclear and debatable. Spatial climatic features in China spanning this time period suggest a generally cold-dry setting. This is evidenced by 130 well-dated geological records at 97 sites located in climatically and topographically diverse regions, with occurrences of some extreme hydrological events like severe floods in the Chinese Loess Plateau, and in basins of the lower Yellow River and the middle-to-lower Yangtze River. The weakening of the Asian Summer Monsoon (ASM) since the mid-Holocene would have made Neolithic subsistence living unfavourable by decreasing the warmth and wetness in arid and semi-arid regions. However, it might not have been the sole factor that destroyed the Neolithic cultures in the vast territories of China ca. 4000 cal. yr BP. Environmental alterations in the major cultural territories of China reacted in response to precipitation anomalies caused by high variability of the ASM and the westerlies, which were modulated by centennial- to inter-annual- scale driving factors such as solar insolation, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and El Nino-Southern Oscillations (ENSO). This most likely accounted for the nearly synchronous Chinese Neolithic cultural collapses.
英文关键词	4000 yr BP Climate change Neolithic culture collapses Asian Summer Monsoons
类型	Review
语种	英语
国家	Peoples R China ; Germany
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000497253500013
WOS关键词	CAL. YR BP ; ASIAN MONSOON VARIABILITY ; HIGH-RESOLUTION POLLEN ; LATE HOLOCENE CLIMATE ; NORTHWESTERN YUNNAN PROVINCE ; NORTHEASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAU ; NORTH-ATLANTIC CLIMATE ; HANJIANG RIVER VALLEY ; 4.2 KABP EVENT ; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGES
WOS类目	Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Geology
EI主题词	2019-10-01
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/310252
作者单位	1.East China Normal Univ, State Key Lab Estuarine & Coastal Res, Shanghai 200062, Peoples R China; 2.Free Univ Berlin, Inst Geog Sci, Malteserstr 74-100, D-12249 Berlin, Germany; 3.East China Normal Univ, Sch Urban & Reg Sci, Shanghai 200062, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sun, Qianli,Liu, Yan,Wunnemann, Bernd,et al. Climate as a factor for Neolithic cultural collapses approximately 4000 years BP in China[J],2019,197.
APA	Sun, Qianli.,Liu, Yan.,Wunnemann, Bernd.,Peng, Yajun.,Jiang, Xuezhong.,...&Chen, Zhongyuan.(2019).Climate as a factor for Neolithic cultural collapses approximately 4000 years BP in China.EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS,197.
MLA	Sun, Qianli,et al."Climate as a factor for Neolithic cultural collapses approximately 4000 years BP in China".EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS 197(2019).