Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China [Elektronisk resurs] / by David B. Madsen, Chen Fa-Hu and Gao Xing.

• Part I Introduction -- Archeology at the margins: Exploring the Late Paleolithic to Neolithic transition in China’s arid west / David B. Madsen, Fa-Hu Chen, Xing Gao -- Part II Climate Change -- Responses of Chinese desert lakes to climate instability during the past 45,000 years / Bernd Wünnemann, Kai Hartmann, Manon Janssen, C. Zhang Hucai -- Post-glacial climate variability and drought events in the monsoon transition zone of western China / Fa-Hu Chen, Bo Cheng, Hui Zhao, Yu-Xin Fan, David B. Madsen, Ming Jin -- Vegetation evolution in arid China during Marine Isotope Stages 3 and 2 (~65–11 ka) / Herzschuh Ulrike, Liu Xingqi -- Holocene vegetation and climate changes from fossil pollen records in arid and semi-arid China / Yan Zhao, Zicheng Yu, Fa-Hu Chen, Chengbang An -- Part III Theoretical Perspectives -- Variation in Late Quaternary central Asian climates and the nature of human response / David B. Madsen, Robert G. Elston -- The transition to agriculture in northwestern China / Robert L. Bettinger, Loukas Barton, Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, Hui Wang, Won Choi -- Part IV Regional and Chronological Perspectives -- Late Pleistocene climate change and Paleolithic cultural evolution in northern China: Implications from the Last Glacial Maximum / Loukas Barton, P. Jeffrey Brantingham, Duxue Ji -- A short chronology for the peopling of the Tibetan Plateau / P. Jeffrey Brantingham, Xing Gao, John W. Olsen, Haizhou Ma, David Rhode, Haiying Zhang, David B. Madsen -- Modeling the Neolithic on the Tibetan Plateau / Mark S. Aldenderfer -- Zooarcheological evidence for animal domestication in northwest China / Rowan K. Flad, Jing Yuan, Shuicheng Li -- Yaks, yak dung, and prehistoric human habitation of the Tibetan Plateau / David Rhode, David B. Madsen, P. Jeffrey Brantingham, Tsultrim Dargye -- Part V Summary and Integration -- Changing views of Late Quaternary human adaptation in arid China / David B. Madsen, Fa-Hu Chen, Xing Gao. 

• Due to political pressures, prior to the 1990s little was known about the nature of human foraging adaptations in the deserts, grasslands, and mountains of north western China during the last glacial period. Even less was known about the transition to agriculture that followed. Now open to foreign visitation, there is now an increasing understanding of the foraging strategies which led both to the development of millet agriculture and to the utilization of the extreme environments of the Tibetan Plateau. This text explores the transition from the foraging societies of the Late Paleolithic to the emergence of settled farming societies and the emergent pastoralism of the middle Neolithic striving to help answer the diverse and numerous questions of this critical transitional period. 

Ämnesord

Klimatologi  (sao)

Kvartärtiden  (sao)

Klimatförändring  (sao)

Kina  (sao)

Paleoclimatology  -- China (LCSH)

Paleoclimatology  -- Quaternary (LCSH)

Climatic changes  -- China -- History (LCSH)

Arid regions climate  -- China -- History (LCSH)

Human ecology  -- China -- History (LCSH)

Excavations (Archaeology)  -- China (LCSH)

Paleolithic period  -- China (LCSH)

Neolithic period  -- China (LCSH)

Climatology  (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ubaj Klimatologi

Udaghb Kvartärtiden

Klassifikation

551.6951 (DDC)

Ubaj (kssb/7)

Udaghb (kssb/7)