Relationship between environmental change and human activities in the period of the Shijiahe culture, Tanjialing site, Jianghan Plain, China

Quaternary International

Volumn 308-309, Issue , 2013, Pages 45-52

  Li, Bing ^a   Zhu, Cheng ^a   Wu, Li ^a   Li, Feng ^a   Sun, Wei ^a   Wang, Xiaocui ^a   Liu, Hui ^b   Meng, Huaping ^b   Wu, Di ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CARBON ISOTOPE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVERGREEN FOREST; EXTREME EVENT; HERB; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NEOLITHIC; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; POLLEN; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

CHINA; HUBEI; JIANGHAN PLAIN;

CITRUS MAXIMA; CYCLOBALANOPSIS; CYPERACEAE; LIQUIDAMBAR; POACEAE; QUERCUS; TYPHA; ULMUS;

EID: 84884350978     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.05.041     Document Type: Article

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