Extraordinary Floods of 4100−4000a BP recorded at the Late Neolithic Ruins in the Jinghe River Gorges, Middle Reach of the Yellow River, China

Huang, Chun Chang; Pang, Jiangli; Zha, Xiaochun; Zhou, Yali; Su, Hongxia; Li, Yuqing

doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.02.003

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“…8e, f) points to short periods with relatively regular monsoon dynamics, which could be associated with intervals of consistently weakened EASM. These epochs might have been followed by more-erratic monsoon dynamics, which eventually gave rise to the floods observed by Huang et al (2010Huang et al ( , 2011. Notably, we do not find comparable signatures in the other three Chinese speleothem records analysed in this work, although they are much closer to the regions with reported evidence for almost synchronous cultural changes.…”

Section: Chinacontrasting

confidence: 82%

“…Huang et al (2010Huang et al ( , 2011 report strong indications of a series of extraordinary floods in the middle realm of the Yellow River, which might have contributed to the demise of existing cultures and their replacement by others, including the abandonment of settlements along the Yellow River. In turn, Gao et al (2007) attribute their findings to an exceptionally cool period.…”

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Non-linear regime shifts in Holocene Asian monsoon variability: potential impacts on cultural change and migratory patterns

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Abstract. The Asian monsoon system is an important tipping element in Earth's climate with a large impact on human societies in the past and present. In light of the potentially severe impacts of present and future anthropogenic climate change on Asian hydrology, it is vital to understand the forcing mechanisms of past climatic regime shifts in the Asian monsoon domain. Here we use novel recurrence network analysis techniques for detecting episodes with pronounced non-linear changes in Holocene Asian monsoon dynamics recorded in speleothems from caves distributed throughout the major branches of the Asian monsoon system. A newly developed multi-proxy methodology explicitly considers dating uncertainties with the COPRA (COnstructing Proxy Records from Age models) approach and allows for detection of continental-scale regime shifts in the complexity of monsoon dynamics. Several epochs are characterised by non-linear regime shifts in Asian monsoon variability, including the periods around 8.5-7.9, 5.7-5.0, 4.1-3.7, and 3.0-2.4 ka BP. The timing of these regime shifts is consistent with known episodes of Holocene rapid climate change (RCC) and high-latitude Bond events. Additionally, we observe a previously rarely reported non-linear regime shift around 7.3 ka BP, a timing that matches the typical 1.0-1.5 ky return intervals of Bond events. A detailed review of previously suggested links between Holocene climatic changes in the Asian monsoon domain and the archaeological record indicates that, in addition to previously considered longer-term changes in mean monsoon intensity and other climatic parameters, regime shifts in monsoon complexity might have played an important role as drivers of migration, pronounced cultural changes, and the collapse of ancient human societies.

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Non-linear regime shifts in Holocene Asian monsoon variability: potential impacts on cultural change and migratory patterns

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“…First, the well-developed and complete Holocene loess-soil profiles over the Loess Plateau and the upper Hanjiang River valley are broadly correlate with one another because of their aeolian origin (Huang et al, , 2010a. A pedo-stratigraphic correlation to the dated loess-soil profiles provides an initial chronological framework for the study profiles.…”

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“…A reverse kind of scaling, extrapolating downward to rare, high-magnitude floods by using whatever evidence is preserved in nature, is used in palaeoflood hydrology (Baker, 2006(Baker, , 2008. Thus, the data generated from palaeoflood hydrology achieve a better estimate for large events and provide an interpretation of the regional response of the hydrological system to global climatic change at longer time scales (Knox, 2000;Huang et al, 2007Huang et al, , 2010a.…”

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Late Pleistocene and Holocene palaeoflood events recorded by slackwater deposits in the upper Hanjiang River valley, China

Liu

Huang

Pang

et al. 2015

Journal of Hydrology

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“…These events are often connected with anomalous atmospheric circulation patterns and hydrological change in response to global climate change. Therefore, the data generated from paleoflood hydrology will facilitate an appropriate assessment of these flood events and the regional response of the hydrological system to global climatic change on long time scales (Knox, 2000;Huang et al, 2007Huang et al, , 2010. Paleoflood hydrology is an interdisciplinary science that includes sedimentary identification and the integrative dating of flood slackwater deposits in riverbanks, with the hydrological reconstruction of paleoflood peak stages and discharges (Baker, 1987(Baker, , 2006(Baker, , 2008.…”

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Paleofloods recorded by slackwater deposits in the upper reaches of the Hanjiang River valley, middle Yangtze River basin, China

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Huang

Pang

et al. 2014

Journal of Hydrology

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Extraordinary Floods of 4100−4000a BP recorded at the Late Neolithic Ruins in the Jinghe River Gorges, Middle Reach of the Yellow River, China

Cited by 112 publications

References 29 publications

Non-linear regime shifts in Holocene Asian monsoon variability: potential impacts on cultural change and migratory patterns

Non-linear regime shifts in Holocene Asian monsoon variability: potential impacts on cultural change and migratory patterns

Late Pleistocene and Holocene palaeoflood events recorded by slackwater deposits in the upper Hanjiang River valley, China

Paleofloods recorded by slackwater deposits in the upper reaches of the Hanjiang River valley, middle Yangtze River basin, China

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