Climatic aridity and the relocations of the Zhou culture in the southern Loess Plateau of China

Climatic Change

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 361-378

  Huang, Chun Chang ^a   Zhao, Shichao ^a   Pang, Jiangli ^a   Zhou, Qunying ^a   Chen, Shue ^a   Li, Pinghua ^a   Mao, Longjiang ^a   Ding, Min ^a  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BIODIVERSITY; DATA REDUCTION; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; MOISTURE; SOILS; WATER;

CLIMATIC ARIDITY; SOIL MOISTURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; POPULATION MIGRATION; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 0345772140     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:CLIM.0000004550.82862.72     Document Type: Article

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