干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Environmental change and the timing of the settlement of the Bronze Age Andronovo culture, in far northwest Xinjiang, China

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DOI	10.1177/09596836211049974
	Environmental change and the timing of the settlement of the Bronze Age Andronovo culture, in far northwest Xinjiang, China
	Dodson, John; Jia, Peter Weiming; Betts, Alison; Cong, Dexin
通讯作者	Dodson, J (corresponding author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Earth Environm, State Key Lab Loess & Quaternary Geol, Yanxiang Rd, Xian 710061, Peoples R China.
来源期刊	HOLOCENE
ISSN	0959-6836
EISSN	1477-0911
出版年	2022
英文摘要	The relationships between societal and environmental changes have long attracted strong interest amongst scientists. Each of these systems has their own internal dynamics such as the adaptability and social systems built by people; and the feedbacks and controls on environmental systems. North west Xinjiang presents a challenging topographic and climate setting for people. Yet existing evidence shows Bronze Age populations settled into the Bortala Valley as early as the third millennium BCE. The harshness of the region provides a test case for exploring how environmental changes and societal changes may have intertwined. Near the town of Wenquan there is an extensive wetland which contains a sedimentary record covering the last 10,400 years. The early to mid-Holocene is marked by desert and a lake at Wenquan, but there is little evidence for human activity. By 4500 cal year BP the climate became more humid and soon peak humidity occurred when a regional steppe was developed and small numbers of trees were present on the mountains, also the lake shallowed to become a marsh and peatland. The uplands saw a slight increase in tree cover after this, probably as a result of moisture increase due to some cooling. Later changes in the archaeological record seem to be independent of the timing of any environmental changes, and human impacts on the wetland were small until historical times. In short, the major change from desert to steppe may have enabled people to settle the region, but later changes in the environment were too small to be revealed in the Wenquan sediment data, with the adaptability of societies overcoming any environmental challenges and with land-use practices being too small or localized to impact the palaeoenvironmental record.
英文关键词	Andronovo Bronze Age Holocene environment Xinjiang
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000706002600001
WOS关键词	ALTAI MOUNTAINS ; NORTHERN XINJIANG ; HOLOCENE VEGETATION ; CLIMATE CHANGES ; PEAT SEQUENCE ; LAKE ; RECORD ; PASTORALISTS ; KAZAKSTAN ; BEGASH
WOS类目	Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology
来源机构	中国科学院地球环境研究所
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/363519
作者单位	[Dodson, John] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Earth Environm, State Key Lab Loess & Quaternary Geol, Yanxiang Rd, Xian 710061, Peoples R China; [Jia, Peter Weiming] Henan Univ, Sch Hist & Culture, Kaifeng, Peoples R China; [Jia, Peter Weiming; Betts, Alison] Univ Sydney, Dept Archaeol, Sydney, NSW, Australia; [Cong, Dexin] Archaeol Inst CASS, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Dodson, John,Jia, Peter Weiming,Betts, Alison,et al. Environmental change and the timing of the settlement of the Bronze Age Andronovo culture, in far northwest Xinjiang, China[J]. 中国科学院地球环境研究所,2022.
APA	Dodson, John,Jia, Peter Weiming,Betts, Alison,&Cong, Dexin.(2022).Environmental change and the timing of the settlement of the Bronze Age Andronovo culture, in far northwest Xinjiang, China.HOLOCENE.
MLA	Dodson, John,et al."Environmental change and the timing of the settlement of the Bronze Age Andronovo culture, in far northwest Xinjiang, China".HOLOCENE (2022).