Late Holocene vegetation and environment at Cauduntou, west of Yangtze Delta, SW Jiangsu Province, East China

Okuda, Masahiro; Satō, Yoshio; Tang, Lu; Takahashi, Mitsuko; Toyama, Shuichi; Yano, Azusa; Kitagawa, Hiroyuki; Yasuda, Yoshinori

doi:10.1016/s1040-6182(02)00149-0

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“…Processing of samples for pollen and micro-charcoal analyses followed standard preparation techniques, as (Yu et al, 2003;Zhang et al, 2005); (2) Cauduntou (Okuda et al, 2003); (3) Zk01 (Shu et al, 2007); (4) HQ98 (Yi et al, 2003(Yi et al, , 2006; (5) ZX-1 Tao et al, 2006); (6) Maqiao (Yu et al, 2000); (7) CM97 (Yi et al, 2003(Yi et al, , 2006; (8) Qidong (Liu et al, 1992). The area shaded darker grey represents land of higher elevation.…”

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Holocene-aged sedimentary records of environmental changes and early agriculture in the lower Yangtze, China

Atahan

Itzstein-Davey

Taylor

et al. 2008

Quaternary Science Reviews

115

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Sedimentary evidence from a total of 21 AMS 14 C dates and 192 pollen and charcoal and 181 phytolith samples from three study sites in the archaeologically rich lower Yangtze in China provides an indication of interactions between early agriculturalists and generally highly dynamic environmental conditions. Results suggest that environmental changes influenced agricultural development, and attest the localised environmental impacts of incipient agriculture. Evidence of human activity, in the form of indicators of deforestation and possibly food production, is apparent by ca 7000 BP (early Neolithic or Majiabang). Clearer evidence of human activity dates to ca 4700 BP (late Neolithic or Liangzhu). Extensive, profound and apparently widespread human impacts do not appear until the Eastern Zhou (Iron Age, ca 2800-2200 BP), however, which in the lower Yangtze was a period associated with technological advances in agriculture, increased urbanisation and relatively stable hydro-geomorphological conditions. r

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Holocene-aged sedimentary records of environmental changes and early agriculture in the lower Yangtze, China

Atahan

Itzstein-Davey

Taylor

et al. 2008

Quaternary Science Reviews

115

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“…A multi-core study (Waller, 1998) would have been necessary to reconstruct fully the vegetational and palaeoenvironmental history of the marshland landscape around Kuahuqiao but this is not the purpose of this research and so such a study has not been undertaken. Single-core studies elsewhere in the Taihu region (Okuda et al, 2003;Atahan et al, 2008) have provided high-quality information regarding geographical changes and human activity.…”

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Environmental history, palaeoecology and human activity at the early Neolithic forager/cultivator site at Kuahuqiao, Hangzhou, eastern China

Innés

Zong

Chen

et al. 2009

Quaternary Science Reviews

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractThe date and location of the adoption of rice cultivation by foraging cultures in China is of considerable current interest but its understanding is hampered by a lack of information regarding its palaeoenvironmental context. We present detailed multi-proxy palaeoecological research at the earliest-dated site of rice cultivation in the coastal littoral of east China which has revealed the precise environmental setting of this early Neolithic settlement and its incipient cultivation at c. 7750 cal BP. Regional and local environmental changes governed the character of the site and the duration of human activity. After an episode of marine conditions, natural hydrological succession and terrestrialisation of the site preceded fire clearance of marsh fen-carr alder scrub that prepared the ground for cultivation and then maintained a reedswamp-type wet grassland in which rice was grown. Cropping of Typha stands may have formed part of the subsistence base before the site was overwhelmed by marine inundation c. 7200 cal BP, after which rice cultivation spread to Neolithic sites of Hemudu type elsewhere in the coastal lowlands. We suggest that integrated multi-proxy palaeoecological studies are vitally important for the full understanding of such key wetland archaeological sites.

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“…4 and 7). This change in forest composition from warm temperate oakwoods to cold-tolerant conifers, mainly Pinus, has been recorded in many places in the Taihu lowlands and nearby areas at this time (Liu et al, 1992;Feng et al, 1993;Xu et al, 1996;Okuda et al, 2003;Yi et al, 2003;Wang et al, 2008;Chen et al, 2009;Li et al, 2010b;Innes et al, 2014;Ma et al, 2016;Yao et al, 2017;Zhao et al, 2017). Surprisingly, however, Pinus pollen frequencies remained very low throughout this period at the nearby sites of Qingpu and Guangfulin (Itzstein-Davey et al, 2007a;Atahan et al, 2008), which suggests that the origin of pine pollen at sites in the Taihu plain may have been very local.…”

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“…Human agricultural activities have been a very important factor affecting vegetation in the lower Yangtze in the last two and a half millennia (Okuda et al, 2003;Itzstein-Davey et al, 2007a, b;Atahan et al, 2007Atahan et al, , 2008Li et al, 2010b;Zong et al, 2012;Yao et al, 2017), and the modern vegetation of the Delta is almost entirely anthropogenic (Yi et al, 2003). It can be difficult to distinguish the effects of climate change and human impacts on the vegetation (Liu and Qiu, 1994;Ren, 2000) from tree frequencies alone, particularly when both influences coincided.…”

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Pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analyses of Upper Holocene sediments from Dianshan, Yangtze coastal lowlands, China: Hydrology, vegetation history and human activity

Innés

Zong

Xiong

et al. 2019

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Late Holocene vegetation and environment at Cauduntou, west of Yangtze Delta, SW Jiangsu Province, East China

Cited by 21 publications

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Holocene-aged sedimentary records of environmental changes and early agriculture in the lower Yangtze, China

Holocene-aged sedimentary records of environmental changes and early agriculture in the lower Yangtze, China

Environmental history, palaeoecology and human activity at the early Neolithic forager/cultivator site at Kuahuqiao, Hangzhou, eastern China

Pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analyses of Upper Holocene sediments from Dianshan, Yangtze coastal lowlands, China: Hydrology, vegetation history and human activity

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