Extraordinary Floods of 4100-4000 a BP recorded at the Late Neolithic Ruins in the Jinghe River Gorges, Middle Reach of the Yellow River, China

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 289, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 1-9

  Huang, Chun Chang ^a,b   Pang, Jiangli ^a   Zha, Xiaochun ^a   Zhou, Yali ^a   Su, Hongxia ^c   Li, Yuqing ^a  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c XI'AN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ancient civilization; China; Climatic event; Holocene; Pre historical flood; Yellow River

Indexed keywords

BRONZE AGE; CIVILIZATION; CLIFF; CLIMATE VARIATION; LOESS; NEOLITHIC; PALEOFLOOD; PALEOHYDROLOGY; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; SKELETAL REMAINS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

CHINA; JING RIVER; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 77949486836     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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