Holocene environmental change and its impacts on human settlement in the Shanghai Area, East China

Wu, Li; Zhu, Cheng; Zheng, Chunmiao; Feng, Lei; Wang, Xinhao; Lan, Li; Sun, Wei

doi:10.1016/j.catena.2013.10.012

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“…3). At the same time, the Taihu Lake Basin of the Yangtze delta proper experienced rising water table and poor drainage circumstance Long et al, 2014;Wu et al, 2014). Presumably, as the coast prograded seaward rapidly, making the coastline of the Ningshao plain further away from the site, in turn it became more sensitive to fluvial sediment siltation in relation to freshwater inflow as marked by the increased Pinus pollen and fern spores of this period (Fig.…”

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Pollen evidence to interpret the history of rice farming at the Hemudu site on the Ningshao coast, eastern China

Liu

Sun

Fan

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Quaternary International

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Pollen evidence to interpret the history of rice farming at the Hemudu site on the Ningshao coast, eastern China

Liu

Sun

Fan

et al. 2016

Quaternary International

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“…Holocene climate history is now relatively well understood at the global scale, with the 46 recognition of a series of significant temperature events that occurred within the longer-term 47 evolution of the present interglacial"s temperate climate, some of which represent tipping points, 48 major shifts that mark phase transitions between longer periods of more stable thermal 49 conditions. One of the most important of these climatic shifts is Holocene event 3 (Bond et al, Taihu lowlands by Neolithic people at this time, and this paper will explore in detail whether 141 climate deterioration and its consequences was the environmental driving force, if one existed.…”

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Climatic and palaeoecological changes during the mid- to Late Holocene transition in eastern China: high-resolution pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analysis at Pingwang, Yangtze coastal lowlands

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Zong

Wang

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Quaternary Science Reviews

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(2014) 'Climatic and palaeoecological changes during the mid-to Late Holocene transition in eastern China : high-resolution pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analysis at Pingwang, Yangtze coastal lowlands.', Quaternary science reviews., 99 . pp. 164-175. Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10. 1016/j.quascirev.2014.06.013 Publisher's copyright statement: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Quaternary Science Reviews. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be re ected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A de nitive version was subsequently published in Quaternary Science Reviews, 99, 2014Reviews, 99, , 10.1016Reviews, 99, /j.quascirev.2014.013. Use policyThe 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-pro t 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. Abstract: The transition to the Late Holocene/Neoglacial occurred as a worldwide process of climatic deterioration from the optimum thermal conditions of the mid-Holocene, culminating in an abrupt decline around 4200 cal yr ago, in a period of severe climatic deterioration that lasted for two or three centuries. This sudden climatic event has been recorded in many proxy data archives from around the world, and its effects were manifest in different ways depending on the reaction of regional weather systems and conditions, but often as greatly increased aridity and/or cold temperatures. It has been regarded as causing or contributing to the sudden collapse of several well-established human societies at that time, including advanced agricultural Late Neolithic cultures in eastern China. We have used high-resolution pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analysis to examine the nature of this climatic transition through its impacts on the vegetation and hydrology at Pingwang, a site in the Yangtze coastal lowlands which has no evidence of complicating environmental influences such as sea-level rise or significant human land-use activity, factors previously suggested as alternative reasons for changes in forest composition. Our results show two phases of forest alteration, one gradual from about 5500 cal BP and one sudden at about 4200 cal BP., in which the frequencies of subtropical forest elements fall and are replaced by those of conifers and cold-tolerant trees. Total arboreal pollen frequencies do not decline and the proportion of temperate forest trees, tolerant of a wide range...

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“…Considering the landscapes exposed between the current coastline and that of the later Late Pleistocene, we should expect to find less evidence of coastal adaptations before the middle Holocene in mainland China. Research on Holocene human occupations also suggests that the spatial and temporal distribution of Neolithic sites was fundamentally controlled by landscape evolution (particularly changes in coastlines), which were ultimately governed by eustatic changes (Wang et al ., ; Wu et al ., ; Zheng et al ., ). Consequently, research on Paleolithic costal adaptations in East Asia relies more on areas with deeper continental shelves, as also been proposed by others (e.g.…”

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Early Marine Isotope Stage 3 human occupation of the Shandong Peninsula, coastal North China

Jian

Zhou

et al. 2018

J Quaternary Science

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Archeological studies of coastal sites have yielded a large body of information regarding the dispersal of modern humans from Africa and the coastal adaptations of various hominin groups. Coastal areas have been attractive to humans since at least the late Middle Pleistocene, according to research conducted in Africa and the circum-Mediterranean region. However, little information concerning Paleolithic occupations has come to light in coastal areas of China. Here, we report on the chronology, archeology and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Pleistocene Dazhushan site on the east coast of the Shandong Peninsula in North China. Evidence indicates that prehistoric humans employing a flake technology occupied the current coastal area of the peninsula by at least early Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3; c. 57-29 ka) when the region was an inland area dominated by a mixed broadleaved forest and grassland environment occupied by terrestrial herbivores. Based on archeological evidence brought to light along the current Chinese coastline, correlated with sea level changes that have occurred since MIS 3, we suggest that future studies of coastal migrations and adaptations in eastern China will be considerably enhanced by a deeper understanding of the geomorphological evolution of those coastal regions.

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Holocene environmental change and its impacts on human settlement in the Shanghai Area, East China

Cited by 38 publications

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Pollen evidence to interpret the history of rice farming at the Hemudu site on the Ningshao coast, eastern China

Pollen evidence to interpret the history of rice farming at the Hemudu site on the Ningshao coast, eastern China

Climatic and palaeoecological changes during the mid- to Late Holocene transition in eastern China: high-resolution pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analysis at Pingwang, Yangtze coastal lowlands

Early Marine Isotope Stage 3 human occupation of the Shandong Peninsula, coastal North China

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