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Title:

Late quaternary climate change and human adaptation in arid China / [edited] by David B. Madsen, Chen Fa-Hu and Gao Xing.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Elsevier,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

237 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 31 cm.

Subject:

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.

Other Authors:

Madsen, David B. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78004824
Chen, Fa-Hu. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2007013109
Gao, Xing. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83024611

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction. 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 -- Climate change. Responses of Chinese desert lakes to climate instability during the past 45,000 years / Bernd Wünnemann, Kai Hartmann, Manon Janssen and C. Zhang Hucai -- 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 -- Vegetation evolution in arid China during marine isotope stages 3 and 2 (~65-11 ka) / Ulrike Herzschuh and Liu Xingqi -- 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 -- Theoretical Perspectives. Variation in Late Quaternary central Asian climates and the nature of human response / David B. Madsen and Robert G. Elston -- The transition to agriculture in northwestern China / Robert L. Bettinger, Loukas Barton, Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, Wang Hui and Choi Won -- Regional and chronological perspectives. 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 -- 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 --
Modeling the Neolithic on the Tibetan Plateau / Mark S. Aldenderfer -- Zooarchaeological evidence for animal domestication in northwest China / Rowan K. Flad, Yuan Jing and Li Shuicheng -- Yaks, yak dung, and prehistoric human habitation of the Tibetan Plateau / David Rhode, David B. Madsen, P. Jeffrey Brantingham and Tsultrim Dargye -- Summary and integration. Changing views of late Quaternary human adaptation in arid China / David B. Madsen, Chen Fa-Hu and Gao Xing.

Series:

Developments in quaternary sciences, 1571-0866 ; 9

ISBN:

0444529624
9780444529626

OCLC:

(OCoLC)122283142

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)