Environmental change and Neolithic settlement movement in the lower Yangtze wetlands of China

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 659-673

  Zong, Y ^a   Innes, J B ^b   Wang, Z ^c   Chen, Z ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

coastal wetland; lower Yangtze; Neolithic settlement; non pollen palynomorphs; pollen; sea level change

Indexed keywords

COASTAL PLAIN; COASTAL WETLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FLOODING; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MICROFOSSIL; NEOLITHIC; OCCUPATION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOMORPH; POLLEN; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION; WETLAND; WOODLAND;

CHENIER PLAIN; CHINA; HANGZHOU BAY; UNITED STATES; YANGTZE BASIN; ZHEJIANG;

AVES; CERVIDAE; SUIDAE;

EID: 84861808961     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611414933     Document Type: Article

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