عنوان

Late quaternary climate change and human adaptation in arid China /

(Number (ISBN

0444529624

(Number (ISBN

9780444529626

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Title Proper

Late quaternary climate change and human adaptation in arid China /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

[edited by] David B. Madsen, Chen Fa-Hu and Gao Xing

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Elsevier,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2007

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

237 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ;

Dimensions

31 cm

Series Title

Developments in quaternary sciences,

ISSN of Series

9

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

Part 1: Introduction -- 1-Archaeology at the Margins: Exploring the Late Paleolithic to Neolithic Transition in China's Arid West (David B. Madsen, Chen Fa-Hu, and Gao Xing) -- Part 2: Climate Change -- 2-Responses of Chinese Desert Lakes to Climate Instability During the Past 45,000 Years. (Bernd Wönnemann, Kai Hartmann, Manon Janssen, and Zhang Hucai Zhang) -- 3-Post-glacial Climate Variability and Drought Events in the Monsoon Transition Zone of Western China (Chen Fa-Hu, Cheng Bo, Zhao Hui, Fan Yu-Xin, David B. Madsen, and Jin Ming) -- 4-Vegetation Evolution in Arid China During Marine Isotope Stages 3 and 2 (̃65-11 ka) (Ulrike Herzschuh and Liu Xingqi) -- 5-Holocene Vegetation and Climate Changes from Fossil Pollen Records in Arid and Semi-arid China (Zhao Yan, Yu Zicheng, Chen Fa-Hu, and An Chengbang) -- Part 3: Theoretical Perspectives -- 6-Variation in Late Quaternary Central Asian Climates and the Nature of Human Response (David B. Madsen and Robert G. Elston) -- 7-The transition to Agriculture in Northwestern China (Robert L. Bettinger, Loukas Barton, Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, Wang Hui, and Choi Won) -- Part 4: Regional and Chronological Perspectives -- 8-Late Pleistocene Climate Change and Paleolithic Cultural Evolution in Northern China: Implications from the Last Glacial Maximum (Loukas Barton, P. Jeffery Brantingham, and Ji Duxue) -- 9-A Short Chronology for the Peopling of the Tibetan Plateau (P. Jeffrey Brantingham, Gao Xing, John W. Olsen, Ma Haizhou, David Rhode, Zhang Haiying, and David B. Madsen) -- 10--Modeling the Neolithic on the Tibetan Plateau (Mark S. Aldenderfer) -- 11-Zooarchaeological Evidence for Animal Domestication in Northwest China (Rowan K. Flad, Yuan Jing, and Li Shuicheng) -- 12-Yaks, Yak dung, and Prehistoric Human Habitation of the Tibetan Plateau (David Rhode, David B. Madsen, P. Jeffrey Brantingham, and Tsultrim Dargye) -- Part 5: Summary and Integration -- 13-Changing Views of late Quaternary Human Adaptation in Arid China (David B. Madsen, Chen Fa-Hu, and Gao Xing)

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Agriculture-- China-- Origin

Arid regions climate-- China-- History

Climatic changes-- China-- History

Excavations (Archaeology)-- China

Human ecology-- China-- History

Neolithic period-- China

Paleoclimatology-- China-- Quaternary

Paleolithic period-- China

China, Antiquities

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Edition

Chen, Fa-Hu

Gao, Xing

Madsen, David B

Date of Transaction

20071001122500.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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