Fruit collection and early evidence for horticulture in the Hexi Corridor, NW China, based on charcoal evidence

doi:10.1007/s00334-018-0691-x

	Fruit collection and early evidence for horticulture in the Hexi Corridor, NW China, based on charcoal evidence
	Shen, Hui 1,2,3; Zhou, Xinying 1,2,3; Betts, Alison 4; Jia, Peter Weiming 4; Zhao, Keliang 1,2,3; Li, Xiaoqiang 1,2,3
刊名	VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY
	2019-03-01
卷号	28 期号:2 页码:187-197
关键词	Hexi Corridor Fossil charcoal Fruit trees Mulberry Horticulture
ISSN号	0939-6314
DOI	10.1007/s00334-018-0691-x
通讯作者	Li, Xiaoqiang(lixiaoqiang@ivpp.ac.cn)
英文摘要	The reconstruction of fruit collection and cultivation based on plant remains plays an important role in understanding the subsistence strategies of ancient societies. Here, we report the identification of fossil charcoal from eight sites in the Hexi Corridor to give a clue to the early exploitation of fruit resources in the period 2300-400 BC. Charcoal assemblages show that millet farmers may have collected some tree fruits including bird cherry (Padus sp.), pear (Pyrus sp.) and whitebeam (Sorbus sp.) in the period 2300-2000 BC. From 2000 to 1500 BC there was continuing utilization of Padus sp., Sorbus sp. and cotoneaster (Cotoneaster sp.), at a time when cereal agriculture of wheat and barley had been introduced from outside. Based on analysis of ecological distribution, reproductive biology and the history of utilization, we infer that these fruits were gathered from the wild rather than cultivated. Later, the cultivation of non-native mulberry (Morus alba) began around 1500 BC in the context of an established high-yield wheat agriculture, probably indicating the earliest sign of horticulture in the Hexi Corridor. As with the beginning of agriculture, the horticulture is associated with cultivation of non-native species. In short, the variations in the presence of charred wood of fruit trees indicate that people might have collected wild fruits over a period of time, and that horticulture occurred much later than the spread of a variety of cereal and other crops in the Hexi Corridor.
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[41730319] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41371003] ; National Basic Research Program of China[2015CB953803]
WOS关键词	CAL YR BP ; LOESS PLATEAU ; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE ; FOSSIL CHARCOAL ; YANGHAI TOMBS ; BRONZE-AGE ; WOOD ; L. ; IMPACT ; GANSU
WOS研究方向	Plant Sciences ; Paleontology
语种	英语
出版者	SPRINGER
WOS记录号	WOS:000459227100005
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China ; National Basic Research Program of China
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/9395]
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Li, Xiaoqiang
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origin, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.CAS Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Earth & Planetary Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 4.Univ Sydney, Dept Archaeol, China Studies Ctr, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Shen, Hui,Zhou, Xinying,Betts, Alison,et al. Fruit collection and early evidence for horticulture in the Hexi Corridor, NW China, based on charcoal evidence[J]. VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY,2019,28(2):187-197.
APA	Shen, Hui,Zhou, Xinying,Betts, Alison,Jia, Peter Weiming,Zhao, Keliang,&Li, Xiaoqiang.(2019).Fruit collection and early evidence for horticulture in the Hexi Corridor, NW China, based on charcoal evidence.VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY,28(2),187-197.
MLA	Shen, Hui,et al."Fruit collection and early evidence for horticulture in the Hexi Corridor, NW China, based on charcoal evidence".VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY 28.2(2019):187-197.