DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.05.015
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84902439879
论文题名: Prehistoric demographic fluctuations in China inferred from radiocarbon data and their linkage with climate change over the past 50,000 years
作者: Wang C. ; Lu H. ; Zhang J. ; Gu Z. ; He K.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2014
卷: 98 起始页码: 45
结束页码: 59
语种: 英语
英文关键词: China
; Climate change
; Database
; Prehistoric demography
; Radiocarbon
; Summed probability distribution
Scopus关键词: C (programming language)
; Climate change
; Database systems
; Population dynamics
; Probability distributions
; China
; Demographic fluctuations
; Environmental diversities
; Growth trajectories
; Palaeoclimatic record
; Population expansion
; Prehistoric demography
; Radiocarbon
; Population statistics
; archaeological evidence
; climate effect
; climate variation
; cultural change
; database
; demographic history
; demographic transition
; hominid
; nature-society relations
; paleoclimate
; population size
; prehistoric
; probability
; radiocarbon dating
; reconstruction
; China
英文摘要: Historic human-climate interactions have been of interest to scholars for a long time. However, exploring the long-term relation between prehistoric demography and climate change remains challenging because of the absence of an effective proxy for population reconstruction. Recently, the summed probability distribution of archaeological radiocarbon dates has been widely used as a proxy for human population levels, although researchers recognize that such usage must be cautious. This approach is rarely applied in China due to the lack of a comprehensive archaeological radiocarbon database, and thus the relation between human population and climate change in China remains ambiguous. Herein we systematically compile an archaeological 14C database (n=4656) for China for the first time. Using the summed probability distributions of the radiocarbon dates alongside high-resolution palaeoclimatic records, we show that: 1) the commencement of major population expansion in China was at 9kacalBP, occurring after the appearance of agriculture and associated with the early Holocene climate amelioration; 2) the major periods of small population size and population decline, i.e., 46-43kacalBP, 41-38kacalBP, 31-28.6kacalBP, 25-23.5kacalBP, 18-15.2kacalBP, and 13-11.4kacalBP, correspond well with the dating of abrupt cold events in the Last Glacial (LG) such as the Heinrich and Younger Dryas (YD) events, while the major periods of high-level population in the Holocene, i.e., 8.5-7kacalBP, 6.5-5kacalBP and 4.3-2.8kacalBP, occur at the same times as warm-moist conditions and Neolithic cultural prosperity, suggesting that abrupt cooling in the climate profoundly limited population size and that mild climate episodes spurred a growth in prehistoric populations and advances in human cultures; and 3) populations in different regions experience different growth trajectories and that their responses to climate change are varied, due to both regional environmental diversity and the attainment of different levels of adaptive strategies. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/60213
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作者单位: Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Recommended Citation:
Wang C.,Lu H.,Zhang J.,et al. Prehistoric demographic fluctuations in China inferred from radiocarbon data and their linkage with climate change over the past 50,000 years[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2014-01-01,98