Late quaternary climate change and human adaptation in arid China
By: [edited by] David B. Madsen, Chen Fa-Hu and Gao Xing
Contributors: Madsen, David B; Chen, Fa-Hu; Gao, Xing
Series: Developments in quaternary sciences -- 9
Publisher: Elsevier; Elsevier Science
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780444529626
Subjects: Paleoclimatology -- China -- Quaternary; 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; China -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Part 1: Introduction; title: 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); title: Part 2: Climate Change; title: 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); title: 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); title: 4-Vegetation Evolution in Arid China During Marine Isotope Stages 3 and 2 (6̃5-11 ka) (Ulrike Herzschuh and Liu Xingqi); title: 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); title: Part 3: Theoretical Perspectives; title: 6-Variation in Late Quaternary Central Asian Climates and the Nature of Human Response (David B. Madsen and Robert G. Elston); title: 7-The transition to Agriculture in Northwestern China (Robert L. Bettinger, Loukas Barton, Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, Wang Hui, and Choi Won); title: Part 4: Regional and Chronological Perspectives; title: 8-Late Pleistocene Climate Change and Paleolithic Cultural Evolution in Northern China: Implications from the Last Glacial Maximum (Loukas Barton, P. Jeffery Brantingham, and Ji Duxue); title: 9-A Short Chronology for the Peopling of the Tibetan Plateau (P. Jeffrey Brantingham, Gao Xing, John W. Olsen, Ma Haizhou, David Rhode, Zhang Haiying, and David B. Madsen); title: 10; title: Modeling the Neolithic on the Tibetan Plateau (Mark S. Aldenderfer); title: 11-Zooarchaeological Evidence for Animal Domestication in Northwest China (Rowan K. Flad, Yuan Jing, and Li Shuicheng); title: 12-Yaks, Yak dung, and Prehistoric Human Habitation of the Tibetan Plateau (David Rhode, David B. Madsen, P. Jeffrey Brantingham, and Tsultrim Dargye); title: Part 5: Summary and Integration; title: 13-Changing Views of late Quaternary Human Adaptation in Arid China (David B. Madsen, Chen Fa-Hu, and Gao Xing)