干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Precipitation in surrounding mountains instead of lowlands facilitated the prosperity of ancient civilizations in the eastern Qaidam Basin of the Tibetan Plateau

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DOI	10.1016/j.catena.2021.105318
	Precipitation in surrounding mountains instead of lowlands facilitated the prosperity of ancient civilizations in the eastern Qaidam Basin of the Tibetan Plateau
	Dong, Guanghui; Li, Teng; Zhang, Shanjia; Ren, Lele; Li, Ruo; Li, Guoqiang; Xiao, Yongming; Wang, Zhongxin; Chen, Fahu
通讯作者	Dong, GH (corresponding author), Lanzhou Univ, Coll Earth & Environm Sci, Key Lab Western Chinas Environm Syst, Minist Educ, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China.
来源期刊	CATENA
ISSN	0341-8162
EISSN	1872-6887
出版年	2021
卷号	203
英文摘要	Precipitation fluctuation has been suggested as a crucial influencing factor in the evolution of ancient civilizations across the world. Nuomuhong culture (similar to 3400-2450 BP) and Tuyuhun (313-663 CE) were unique ancient civilizations that developed in the eastern Qaidam Basin of the north Tibetan Plateau. However, how precipitation variation in the mountain-basin system has affected the rise and fall of these two ancient civilizations is not well understood. Based on analyses of grain size, magnetic susceptibility, Rb/Sr ratio, loss on ignition, and optically stimulated luminescence dates from an aeolian deposit sequence, lowland climate change in the Qaidam Basin during the late Holocene is reconstructed. The Rb/Sr ratio varies from 0.31 to 0.33 during similar to 2500-2300 BP, it increases from 0.33 to 0.44 during similar to 2300-1600 BP, and decreases from 0.44 to 0.29 during similar to 1600-1400 BP, suggesting the climate was relatively dry during similar to 2500-2300 BP and similar to 1600-1400 BP and relatively wet during similar to 2300-1600 BP in the lowlands of the eastern Qaidam Basin, which corresponded well to the gap between the Nuomuhong and Tuyuhun periods. However, the prosperous periods of the Nuomuhong and Tuyuhun were synchronous with high precipitation in the surrounding mountains. Therefore, high precipitation in the surrounding mountains nourished the expansion of oases and then facilitated the development of Nuomuhong and Tuyuhun, which was inconsistent with precipitation variation in the lowlands of eastern Qaidam Basin. The spatiotemporal pattern of precipitation in the mountain-basin system of the Qaidam Basin during the late Holocene was likely affected by solar activity through uplifting-subsiding air flow mechanism, with more precipitation in the mountain and less precipitation in the basin under higher solar activity. A cognitive model is provided to illustrate how solar activity affected the spatiotemporal patterns of precipitation in the mountain-basin structure of the eastern Qaidam, and then human settlement and civilization evolution during the late Holocene.
英文关键词	Qaidam Basin Late Holocene Precipitation change Nuomuhong culture Tuyuhun Kingdom Mountain-basin system
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000654354000018
WOS关键词	ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; LOESS PLATEAU ; CENTRAL CHINA ; GRAIN-SIZE ; VARIABILITY ; EVOLUTION ; COLLAPSE ; VEGETATION ; SEDIMENTS
WOS类目	Geosciences, Multidisciplinary ; Soil Science ; Water Resources
WOS研究方向	Geology ; Agriculture ; Water Resources
来源机构	兰州大学
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/349808
作者单位	[Dong, Guanghui; Zhang, Shanjia; Li, Ruo; Li, Guoqiang] Lanzhou Univ, Coll Earth & Environm Sci, Key Lab Western Chinas Environm Syst, Minist Educ, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China; [Dong, Guanghui; Chen, Fahu] Chinese Acad Sci, CAS Ctr Excellence Tibetan Plateau Earth Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China; [Li, Teng] Guangzhou Univ, Sch Geog & Remote Sensing, Guangzhou 510006, Peoples R China; [Ren, Lele] Lanzhou Univ, Hist & Culture Sch, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China; [Xiao, Yongming; Wang, Zhongxin] Qinghai Prov Inst Cultural Rel & Archaeol, Xining 810007, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Dong, Guanghui,Li, Teng,Zhang, Shanjia,et al. Precipitation in surrounding mountains instead of lowlands facilitated the prosperity of ancient civilizations in the eastern Qaidam Basin of the Tibetan Plateau[J]. 兰州大学,2021,203.
APA	Dong, Guanghui.,Li, Teng.,Zhang, Shanjia.,Ren, Lele.,Li, Ruo.,...&Chen, Fahu.(2021).Precipitation in surrounding mountains instead of lowlands facilitated the prosperity of ancient civilizations in the eastern Qaidam Basin of the Tibetan Plateau.CATENA,203.
MLA	Dong, Guanghui,et al."Precipitation in surrounding mountains instead of lowlands facilitated the prosperity of ancient civilizations in the eastern Qaidam Basin of the Tibetan Plateau".CATENA 203(2021).