Population history and its relationship with climate change on the Chinese Loess Plateau during the past 10,000 years

Holocene

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1144-1152

  Li, Hu ^a   An, Chengbang ^a   Fan, Wenjie ^a   Dong, Weimiao ^a   Zhao, Yongtao ^a   Wang, Haipeng ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

agriculture; Chinese Loess Plateau; climate; demography; Neolithic; radiocarbon

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NEOLITHIC; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

PANICUM MILIACEUM; SETARIA ITALICA;

EID: 84930739020     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683615580200     Document Type: Article

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