Late Quaternary climate change and human adaptation in arid China. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited] by David B. Madsen, Chen Fa-Hu, and Gao Xing.
• Other Names: Madsen, David B; Chen, Fa-Hu; Gao, Xing, 1962 February
• Contents: 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).
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Elsevier Science
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (244 pages)
• Subjects: 551.6951; Paleoclimatology -- China; Paleoclimatology -- Quaternary; Climatic changes -- China -- History; Arid regions climate -- China -- History; Human ecology -- China -- History; Excavations (Archaeology) -- China; Paleolithic period -- China; Neolithic period -- China; China -- Antiquities
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080544311; 0080544312
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