Environmental history, palaeoecology and human activity at the early Neolithic forager/cultivator site at Kuahuqiao, Hangzhou, eastern China

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 23-24, 2009, Pages 2277-2294

  Innes, James B ^a   Zong, Yongqiang ^b   Chen, Zhongyuan ^c   Chen, Chun ^d   Wang, Zhanghua ^c   Wang, Hui ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE; COASTAL LOWLAND; EAST CHINA; EASTERN CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; HANGZHOU; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PALAEOECOLOGY; RICE CULTIVATION;

WETLANDS;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CULTIVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; GRASS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NEOLITHIC; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; REEDBED; RICE; SCRUB; SUCCESSION; WETLAND;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HANGZHOU; ZHEJIANG;

ALNUS; TYPHA;

EID: 70349148578     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.04.010     Document Type: Article

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