UID:
almahu_9947420895302882
Format:
1 online resource (245 p.)
ISBN:
1-281-02544-5
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9786611025441
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0-08-054431-2
Series Statement:
Developments in quaternary sciences, 9
Content:
Due to political pressures, prior to the 1990s little was known about the nature of human foraging adaptations in the deserts, grasslands, and mountains of north western China during the last glacial period. Even less was known about the transition to agriculture that followed. Now open to foreign visitation, there is now an increasing understanding of the foraging strategies which led both to the development of millet agriculture and to the utilization of the extreme environments of the Tibetan Plateau. This text explores the transition from the foraging societies of the Late Paleolithic to t
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Front Cover; Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Part I Introduction; Chapter 1 Archeology at the margins: Exploring the Late Paleolithic to Neolithic transition in China's arid west; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. The Expedition Era; 3. Archeological Bureaucracy; 4. Isolation and Politics; 5. The New Wave; 6. Modeling the Paleolithic to Neolithic Transition; Acknowledgments; References; Part II Climate Change; Chapter 2 Responses of Chinese desert lakes to climate instability during the past 45,000 years; Abstract
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1. Introduction2. Methods and Data Base; 3. Results and Discussion; 4. Conclusion; Acknowledgement; References; Chapter 3 Post-glacial climate variability and drought events in the monsoon transition zone of western China; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Geographical Setting; 3. Laboratory Methods; 4. Result and Discussion; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 4 Vegetation evolution in arid China during marine isotope stages 3 and 2 (~65-11 ka); Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Palaeo-Vegetation Records Available and Their Limitations; 3. Vegetation Evolution; References
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Chapter 5 Holocene vegetation and climate changes from fossil pollen records in arid and semi-arid ChinaAbstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Modern Environmental Settings; 3. Data Sources and Methods; 4. Holocene Regional Vegetation Changes; 5. Holocene Climate Changes in Arid and Semi-arid China; 6. Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgments; References; Part III Theoretical Perspectives; Chapter 6 Variation in Late Quaternary central Asian climates and the nature of human response; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Part I - Late Quaternary Climate Change
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3. Part II - Hypothesized Human Response to Climate Change in Arid China4. Discussion and Summary; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 7 The transition to agriculture in northwestern China; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Agriculture as an Evolutionary Problem; 3. Late Pleistocene - Early Holocene Prehistory of North China; 4. Middle Holocene Population Movement from the Upper Yellow River; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Part IV Regional and Chronological Perspectives
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Chapter 8 Late Pleistocene climate change and Paleolithic cultural evolution in northern China: Implications from the Last Glacial MaximumAbstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Hunter-gatherer Mobility; 3. Late Pleistocene Human Biogeography in Northern China; 4. Cultural Evolution and the LGM; 5. Raw Materials, Paleolithic Tool Technology, and Human Mobility; 6. Hunter-Gatherer Occupation of the Western Loess Plateau; 7. A Speculative Model of Cultural Evolution in Northeast Asia; 8. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 9 A short chronology for the peopling of the Tibetan Plateau
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Abstract
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-444-52962-4
Language:
English
Keywords:
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