Spatial and temporal variety of prehistoric human settlement and its   influencing factors in the upper Yellow River valley, Qinghai Province,   China

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.002

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	Spatial and temporal variety of prehistoric human settlement and its influencing factors in the upper Yellow River valley, Qinghai Province, China
	Dong, Guanghui ; Jia, Xin ; Elston, Robert ; Chen, Fahu ; Li, Shuicheng ; Wang, Lin ; Cai, Linhai ; An, Chengbang
刊名	journal of archaeological science
	2013
关键词	Upper Yellow River valley Prehistoric period Human settlement Radiocarbon dating Archaeological investigation NORTHERN TIBETAN PLATEAU CLIMATE-CHANGE LOESS PLATEAU ASIAN MONSOON RADIOCARBON LAKE DOMESTICATION CALIBRATION HOLOCENE AGE
DOI	10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.002
英文摘要	We report an investigation of forty-two prehistoric sites in the upper Yellow River valley located in Guide, Jianzha, Hualong, Xunha and Minhe, Qinghai Province, China, including forty-four new radiocarbon dates from twenty-four sites, review published archaeological surveys and radio-carbon dates, analyze landform features and discuss the reasons for spatial and temporal variety of regional prehistoric human settlement. Our results suggest that people occupied the upper Yellow River valley during the early Holocene, but a continuous archaeological record begins only after about 5500 Cal yr BP. Thereafter, the intensity of prehistoric human settlement in the area is varied. Neolithic human settlement spread northwestward to high altitude areas of the upper Yellow River valley during early-mid Majiayao and Qijia periods, but moved southeastward to lower locations in the area during late Majiayao period. During the Bronze period, two coeval archaeological cultures, the Kayue and Xindian, occupied the upper Yellow River Region. Kayue archaeological sites are numerous and widely distributed in the high areas of the upper Yellow River, while Xindian sites are restricted to the lowest basin of the region. Variation in site density and location are likely the result of changing paleoclimate and technology. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.; http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000316834100030&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701 ; Anthropology; Archaeology; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary; A&HCI; SCI(E); SSCI; 27; ARTICLE; 5; 2538-2546; 40
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/224297]
专题	考古文博学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Dong, Guanghui,Jia, Xin,Elston, Robert,et al. Spatial and temporal variety of prehistoric human settlement and its influencing factors in the upper Yellow River valley, Qinghai Province, China[J]. journal of archaeological science,2013.
APA	Dong, Guanghui.,Jia, Xin.,Elston, Robert.,Chen, Fahu.,Li, Shuicheng.,...&An, Chengbang.(2013).Spatial and temporal variety of prehistoric human settlement and its influencing factors in the upper Yellow River valley, Qinghai Province, China.journal of archaeological science.
MLA	Dong, Guanghui,et al."Spatial and temporal variety of prehistoric human settlement and its influencing factors in the upper Yellow River valley, Qinghai Province, China".journal of archaeological science (2013).