Animal use in the late second millennium BCE in northern China: Evidence from Zaoshugounao and Zaolinhetan in the Jing River valley

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 318-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Li ◽  
Chengrui Zhang ◽  
Zhen Wang ◽  
Haifeng Dou ◽  
Huan Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Northern China ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Animal Use ◽  
Second Millennium Bce

scholarly journals Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (30) ◽  
pp. e2102007118
Author(s):  
Bao Yang ◽  
Chun Qin ◽  
Achim Bräuning ◽  
Timothy J. Osborn ◽  
Valerie Trouet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Asian Summer Monsoon ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Northern China ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Drying Trend ◽  
Asian Summer ◽  
Second Millennium Bce ◽  
Instrumental Period

Asian summer monsoon (ASM) variability and its long-term ecological and societal impacts extending back to Neolithic times are poorly understood due to a lack of high-resolution climate proxy data. Here, we present a precisely dated and well-calibrated tree-ring stable isotope chronology from the Tibetan Plateau with 1- to 5-y resolution that reflects high- to low-frequency ASM variability from 4680 BCE to 2011 CE. Superimposed on a persistent drying trend since the mid-Holocene, a rapid decrease in moisture availability between ∼2000 and ∼1500 BCE caused a dry hydroclimatic regime from ∼1675 to ∼1185 BCE, with mean precipitation estimated at 42 ± 4% and 5 ± 2% lower than during the mid-Holocene and the instrumental period, respectively. This second-millennium–BCE megadrought marks the mid-to late Holocene transition, during which regional forests declined and enhanced aeolian activity affected northern Chinese ecosystems. We argue that this abrupt aridification starting ∼2000 BCE contributed to the shift of Neolithic cultures in northern China and likely triggered human migration and societal transformation.

scholarly journals Estimation of the Potential Infestation Area of Newly-invaded Fall Armyworm Spodoptera Frugiperda in the Yangtze River Valley of China

Insects ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiu-Lin Wu ◽  
Li-Mei He ◽  
Xiu-Jing Shen ◽  
Yu-Ying Jiang ◽  
Jie Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Yangtze River ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Fall Armyworm ◽  
Northern China ◽  
Yangtze River Valley ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Flight Behavior ◽  
The Yangtze River ◽  
Self Powered

The fall armyworm (FAW), native to the Americas, has rapidly invaded the whole of Southern China since January 2019. In addition, it can survive and breed in the key maize- and rice- growing area of the Yangtze River Valley. Furthermore, this pest is also likely to continue infiltrating other cropping regions in China, where food security is facing a severe threat. To understand the potential infestation area of newly-invaded FAW from the Yangtze River Valley, we simulated and predicted the possible flight pathways and range of the populations using a numerical trajectory modelling method combining meteorological data and self-powered flight behavior parameters of FAW. Our results indicate that the emigration of the first and second generations of newly-invaded FAW initiating from the Yangtze River Valley started on 20 May 2019 and ended on 30 July 2019. The spread of migratory FAW benefitted from transport on the southerly summer monsoon so that FAW emigrants from the Yangtze River Valley can reach northern China. The maize-cropping areas of Northeastern China, the Korean Peninsula and Japan are at a high risk. This study provides a basis for early warning and a broad picture of FAW migration from the Yangtze River Valley.

scholarly journals Pleniglacial millennium-scale climate variations in northern China based on records from the Salawusu River Valley

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
FengNian WANG ◽  
BaoSheng LI ◽  
JiangLong WANG ◽  
XiaoHao WEN ◽  
DongFeng NIU ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Northern China ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Climate Variations ◽  
Salawusu River Valley

How did trans-Eurasian exchanges affect spatial-temporal variation in agricultural patterns during the late prehistoric period in the Yellow River valley (China)?

The Holocene ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 095968362094114
Author(s):  
Liu Yang ◽  
Minmin Ma ◽  
Tingting Chen ◽  
Yifu Cui ◽  
Panpan Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Yellow River ◽  
Cropping System ◽  
Northern China ◽  
River Valley ◽  
The Yellow River ◽  
Agricultural System ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Lower Yellow River ◽  
Yellow River Valley

The introduction of wheat into China between ~4500 and 4000 cal. a BP is thought to have restructured the ancient Chinese agricultural system and contributed to the formation and development of Chinese civilization. However, the spatial variation in agricultural development before and after the introduction of exotic crops across the Yellow River valley has not yet been discussed in detail. Here, we report new archaeobotanical data and radiocarbon dates from 25 sites in Sanmenxia, Henan Province, which was a hub for human migration in the middle reach of the Yellow River. Integrating our data with those of other archaeobotanical studies in northern China confirms that spatial cropping patterns in the Yellow River valley changed significantly around 4000 cal. a BP in the context of trans-Eurasia exchanges. From 7000 to 4000 cal. a BP, millet crops in the upper and middle Yellow River valley dominated the agricultural system, while mixed millet and rice agriculture developed in the lower Yellow River valley. In the subsequent period (4000–2200 cal. a BP), the cropping system in the upper Yellow River valley changed predominantly to barley and wheat agriculture, supplemented with millets. The contemporaneous cropping system in the middle and lower Yellow River valley, however, was dominated by millets, supplemented with wheat and rice. We argue that technological innovation and its dissemination in the context of trans-Eurasian cultural exchanges provided the basis for changes in the agricultural systems in northern China during the Bronze Age. Additionally, the trajectory of agricultural development was influenced by the natural environment and social change in different regions of the Yellow River valley.

Spatial and temporal changes of prehistoric human land use in the Wei River valley, northern China

The Holocene ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 1788-1801 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanyan Yu ◽  
Haibin Wu ◽  
Peter A Finke ◽  
Zhengtang Guo
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Northern China ◽  
Temporal Changes ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Human Land Use ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Changes ◽  
Wei River

New Sources of Western Zhou History: Recent Discoveries of Inscribed Bronze Vessels

Early China ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 73-98
Author(s):  
Edward L. Shaughnessy
Keyword(s):  
Northern China ◽  
The State ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Shaanxi Province ◽  
Bronze Vessels ◽  
Western Zhou ◽  
Wei River

In the 1970s, the great discoveries of Western Zhou bronze vessels were concentrated primarily in the Wei River valley of Shaanxi province, a pattern of distribution that gave rise to certain theories about a geographically reduced Zhou state. Since then, and especially in the 1990s, inscribed bronze vessels of the Western Zhou period have been found throughout northern China, with particularly important discoveries identified with the state of Yan 燕 near Beijing, Ying 應 at Pingdingshan (Henan), Jin 晉 at Houma (Shanxi), and Guo 虢 at Sanmenxia (Henan). This article introduces these discoveries, translating the more important inscriptions. It also reviews recent discoveries in Shaanxi, especially several bronzes bearing fully-dated inscriptions that have come to light in the course of the Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project.

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