Climate change and cultural response around 4000 cal yr B.P. in the western part of Chinese Loess Plateau

Quaternary Research

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 347-352

  An, Cheng Bang ^a   Tang, Lingyu ^b   Barton, Loukas ^c   Chen, Fa Hu ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural collapse; Chalcolithic; China; Climate change; Neolithic; Qijia Culture; Western Loess Plateau

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ARIDIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTURAL CHANGE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; PALEOCLIMATE;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU; WORLD;

EID: 17544383322     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2005.02.004     Document Type: Article

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