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DOI	10.1007/s12520-021-01331-2
	Early emergence and development of pastoralism in Gan-Qing region from the perspective of isotopes
	Ma, Minmin; Ren, Lele; Li, Zhipeng; Wang, Qianqian; Zhao, Xueye; Li, Ruo
通讯作者	Ren, LL (corresponding author)，Lanzhou Univ, Sch Hist & Culture, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China.
来源期刊	ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES
ISSN	1866-9557
EISSN	1866-9565
出版年	2021
卷号	13 期号:6
英文摘要	Human subsistence strategies and husbandry practices for sheep, goats, and cattle in the Gan-Qing region between the late Neolithic and Bronze ages remain ambiguous. This study sought to uncover this history by analyzing animal assemblages and reconstructing animal dietary intake using faunal remains derived from three settlement sites in the region and their isotopic data. We isotopically analyzed a total of 387 animal samples and found that from 5300 to 4900 BP and 4100 to 3600 BP pigs were free-range and/or raised at inhabitation sites and dogs may have been free-range and may have hunted with humans and/or remained close to habitation sites. These flexible ways of raising pigs and dogs may have enabled inhabitants to make full use of natural resources and to save millet fodder. Meanwhile, sheep, goats, and cattle were mainly herded in grasslands during the Bronze Age, with their diets dominated by C-3 and mixed C-3/C-4 plant consumption, which differs notably from the husbandry practice in the Central Plains. In addition, the delta N-15 values of wild herbivorous animals in arid regions were higher than those in semi-arid regions, suggesting that animal delta N-15 values may vary with aridity. This paper not only sheds light on the progress of and plausible reasons for pastoralist and mobile pastoralist practice in the Gan-Qing region during these periods but, in doing so, also provides a nitrogen baseline for reconstructing human diets in the Gan-Qing region.
英文关键词	δ C-13 and δ N-15 Husbandry practice Baseline Gan-Qing region Late Neolithic Early Bronze Age
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI ; AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000746158800001
WOS关键词	YR BP ; CHINA ; DIET ; AGE ; AGRICULTURE ; COLLAGEN ; PLATEAU ; CLIMATE ; RATIOS ; SITE
WOS类目	Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Geology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/375962
作者单位	[Ma, Minmin; Li, Ruo] Lanzhou Univ, Coll Earth & Environm Sci, MOE Key Lab Western Chinas Environm Syst, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China; [Ren, Lele] Lanzhou Univ, Sch Hist & Culture, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China; [Li, Zhipeng] CASS, Inst Archaeol, Beijing 100710, Peoples R China; [Wang, Qianqian] Qinghai Prov Inst Cultural Rel & Archaeol Res, Xining 810007, Peoples R China; [Zhao, Xueye] Gansu Prov Inst Cultural Rel & Archaeol Res, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ma, Minmin,Ren, Lele,Li, Zhipeng,et al. Early emergence and development of pastoralism in Gan-Qing region from the perspective of isotopes[J],2021,13(6).
APA	Ma, Minmin,Ren, Lele,Li, Zhipeng,Wang, Qianqian,Zhao, Xueye,&Li, Ruo.(2021).Early emergence and development of pastoralism in Gan-Qing region from the perspective of isotopes.ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES,13(6).
MLA	Ma, Minmin,et al."Early emergence and development of pastoralism in Gan-Qing region from the perspective of isotopes".ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES 13.6(2021).