A test of climate, sun, and culture relationships from an 1810-year Chinese cave record

Science

Volumn 322, Issue 5903, 2008, Pages 940-942

  Zhang, Pingzhong ^a   Cheng, Hai ^b   Edwards, R Lawrence ^b   Chen, Fahu ^a   Wang, Yongjin ^c   Yang, Xunlin ^a   Liu, Jian ^d   Tan, Ming ^e   Wang, Xianfeng ^b   Liu, Jinghua ^a   An, Chunlei ^a   Dai, Zhibo ^a   Zhou, Jing ^a   Zhang, Dezhong ^a   Jia, Jihong ^a   Jin, Liya ^a   Johnson, Kathleen R ^f  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVE; CULTIVATION; HISTORICAL RECORD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOCLIMATE; RICE; SOLAR RADIATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLIMATE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; CULTURAL PERIOD; DEGLACIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; ICE AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR RADIATION; SUMMER; SUN;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GANSU; WANXIANG CAVE;

EID: 55849127068     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1163965     Document Type: Article

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