Holocene sea-level change and the emergence of Neolithic seafaring in the Fuzhou Basin (Fujian, China)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 788-797

  Rolett, Barry V ^a   Zheng, Zhuo ^b   Yue, Yuanfu ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

China; Cultural response to environmental change; Holocene sea level; Neolithic seafaring

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOOD PRODUCTION; HOLOCENE SEA-LEVEL; HOLOCENE SEA-LEVEL CHANGE; HOLOCENES; MARINE TRANSGRESSION; NEOLITHIC SEAFARING; PALEOGEOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION; RICE PADDY; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENT CORE; TAIWAN STRAITS; TRANSFORMATION BASED;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS;

ESTUARIES;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; COAST; FOOD PRODUCTION; HOLOCENE; NEOLITHIC; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT CORE; TRANSGRESSION;

CHINA; FUJIAN; FUZHOU BASIN; TAIWAN STRAIT;

EID: 79952447758     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.01.015     Document Type: Article

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