Environmental archaeology at the Chengtoushan site, Hunan Province, China, and implications for environmental change and the rise and fall of the Yangtze River civilization

Quaternary International

Volumn 123-125, Issue , 2004, Pages 149-158

  Yasuda, Yoshinori ^a   Fujiki, Toshiyuki ^b   Nasu, Hiroo ^a   Kato, Megumi ^c   Morita, Yoshimune ^d   Mori, Yuichi ^e   Kanehara, Masaaki ^f   Toyama, Shuichi ^g   Yano, Azusa ^a   Okuno, Mitsuru ^h   Jiejun, He ⁱ   Ishihara, Sonoko ^j   Kitagawa, Hiroyuki ^b   Fukusawa, Hitoshi ^j   Naruse, Toshiro ^k  

^a National Institutes for the Humanities International Research Center for Japanese Studies   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

^d OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e Aichi Prefectural Meiwa Senior High School   (Japan)

^f NARA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^g KOGAKKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ People's Hospital of Hunan Province   (China)

^j TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k HYOGO UNIVERSITY OF TEACHER EDUCATION   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CIVILIZATION; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; IRRIGATION; PALEOCLIMATE;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HUNAN; WORLD; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 10044294026     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2004.02.016     Document Type: Article

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