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DOI	10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102948
	An updated chronology and paleoenvironmental background for the Paleolithic Loufangzi site, North China
	Peng, Wei; Huang, Xiaozhong; Storozum, Michael J.; Fan, Yuxin; Zhang, Hucai
通讯作者	Zhang, HC (corresponding author), Yunnan Univ, Sch Ecol & Environm Sci, Inst Ecol Res & Pollut Control Plateau Lakes, Kunming 650504, Yunnan, Peoples R China. ; Huang, XZ (corresponding author), Lanzhou Univ, Coll Earth & Environm Sci, Key Lab Western Chinas Environm Syst, Minist Educ, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, Peoples R China.
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
ISSN	0047-2484
EISSN	1095-8606
出版年	2021
卷号	152
英文摘要	The relationship between the environment and human activities during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 4 is important for understanding the origins of modern humans (Homo sapiens) in East Asia, an area where various hypotheses of human origins have been vigorously debated over the past three decades. Unfortunately, only a handful of Paleolithic sites date to MIS 4 in East Asia, hampering our understanding of how environmental changes affected human activities during this time period. Here, we used stratigraphic correlation analysis and optically stimulated luminescence to date the Loufangzi site, an important Paleolithic site in North China that has had an unreliable chronology. Pollen analysis, grain size, and magnetic susceptibility were also used to reconstruct environmental conditions at the Loufangzi site area. Our results show that (1) the age of the upper culture layer of the Loufangzi site is bracketed between similar to 70 ka and similar to 60 ka and dates to MIS 4 and (2) the regional vegetation from MIS 5 to MIS 4 to MIS 3 was mainly dominated by forest steppe, desert steppe/desert, and steppe, respectively, indicating harsh environmental conditions during MIS 4. Combined with the discovery of Mousterian-like scrapers in the upper culture layer of MIS 4, our results challenge the view that the area was unsuitable for human survival during the Last Glacial period and instead suggest that humans used new technologies to increase their resilience to the cooling climate. (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Marine Isotope Stage 4 Middle Paleolithic Pollen analysis Optically stimulated luminescence Loess Plateau
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000623354400004
WOS类目	Anthropology ; Evolutionary Biology
WOS研究方向	Anthropology ; Evolutionary Biology
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/2XILL650/350860
作者单位	[Peng, Wei; Zhang, Hucai] Yunnan Univ, Sch Ecol & Environm Sci, Inst Ecol Res & Pollut Control Plateau Lakes, Kunming 650504, Yunnan, Peoples R China; [Peng, Wei; Huang, Xiaozhong] Lanzhou Univ, Coll Earth & Environm Sci, Key Lab Western Chinas Environm Syst, Minist Educ, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, Peoples R China; [Storozum, Michael J.] Fudan Univ, Inst Archaeol Sci, 220 Handan Rd, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China; [Storozum, Michael J.] Fudan Univ, Dept Cultural Heritage & Museol, 220 Handan Rd, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China; [Fan, Yuxin] Lanzhou Univ, Sch Earth Sci, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China; [Fan, Yuxin] Lanzhou Univ, Key Lab Mineral Resources Western China Gansu Pro, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Peng, Wei,Huang, Xiaozhong,Storozum, Michael J.,et al. An updated chronology and paleoenvironmental background for the Paleolithic Loufangzi site, North China[J]. 兰州大学,2021,152.
APA	Peng, Wei,Huang, Xiaozhong,Storozum, Michael J.,Fan, Yuxin,&Zhang, Hucai.(2021).An updated chronology and paleoenvironmental background for the Paleolithic Loufangzi site, North China.JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION,152.
MLA	Peng, Wei,et al."An updated chronology and paleoenvironmental background for the Paleolithic Loufangzi site, North China".JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION 152(2021).