Title: Late Quaternary climate change and human adaptation in arid China /
Authors: Madsen, David B.; Chen, Fa-Hu.; Gao, Xing.
Publisher: Elsevier,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Paleoclimatology China; Climatic changes China History.; Arid regions climate China History.; Human ecology China History.; Excavations (Archaeology) China; Agriculture China Origin.; Paleolithic period China.; Neolithic period China.; Paleoclimatology China, Northwest.; Paleoclimatology; Arid regions climate China, Northwest History.; Climatic changes China, Northwest History.; Human ecology China, Northwest History.; Excavations (Archaeology) China, Northwest.; Agriculture China, Northwest Origin.; Paleolithic period China, Northwest.; Neolithic period China, Northwest.; China Antiquities.; China, Northwest Antiquities.
Contents: Part 1: Introduction -- 1-Archaeology at the Margins: Exploring the Late Paleolithic to Neolithic Transition in China's Arid West (David B. Madsen, Chen Fa-Hu, and Gao Xing) -- Part 2: Climate Change -- 2-Responses of Chinese Desert Lakes to Climate Instability During the Past 45,000 Years. (Bernd Wönnemann, Kai Hartmann, Manon Janssen, and Zhang Hucai Zhang) -- 3-Post-glacial Climate Variability and Drought Events in the Monsoon Transition Zone of Western China (Chen Fa-Hu, Cheng Bo, Zhao Hui, Fan Yu-Xin, David B. Madsen, and Jin Ming) -- 4-Vegetation Evolution in Arid China During Marine Isotope Stages 3 and 2 (~65-11 ka) (Ulrike Herzschuh and Liu Xingqi) -- 5-Holocene Vegetation and Climate Changes from Fossil Pollen Records in Arid and Semi-arid China (Zhao Yan, Yu Zicheng, Chen Fa-Hu, and An Chengbang) -- Part 3: Theoretical Perspectives -- 6-Variation in Late Quaternary Central Asian Climates and the Nature of Human Response (David B. Madsen and Robert G. Elston) --^