Magneto stratigraphic age of the Xiantai Paleolithic site in the Nihewan Basin and implications for early human colonization of Northeast Asia

doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.02.001

	Magneto stratigraphic age of the Xiantai Paleolithic site in the Nihewan Basin and implications for early human colonization of Northeast Asia
	Deng, CL ; Wei, Q ; Zhu, RX ; Wang, HQ ; Zhang, R ; Ao, H ; Chang, L ; Pan, YX
刊名	EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
	2006-04-15
卷号	244 期号:1-2 页码:336-348
关键词	magnetostratigraphy Xiantai Paleolithic site Nihewan Basin Early Pleistocene human evolution
ISSN号	0012-821X
DOI	10.1016/j.epsl.2006.02.001
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	Timing of the early habitation and stone technologies in the Nihewan Basin, North China has provided insights into our understanding of early human adaptability to high northern latitudes in East Asia. Here we contribute to this topic with detailed magnetostratigraphic investigation, coupled with mineral magnetic measurements and palynological analyses on a lacustrine sequence in this basin, which contains the Xiantai Paleolithic site. Magnetite and hematite were identified as the main carriers for the characteristic remanent magnetizations. Magnetostratigraphic results show that the Xiantai lacustrine sequence recorded the Brunhes chron, the Jaramillo and the Olduvai subchrons, and successive reverse polarity portions of the intervening Matuyama chron. Stratigraphic correlation in terms of lithology, magnetic susceptibility and magnetic polarity sequences between the Xiantai and Xiaochangliang sections indicates that the Xiantai artefact layer is readily contemporary with the Xiaochangliang artefact layer, which has been previously estimated to be about 1.36 Ma [R.X. Zhu, K.A. Hoffman, R. Potts, C.L. Deng, Y.X. Pan, B. Guo, C.D. Shi, Z.T. Guo, BY Yuan, Y.M. Hou, W.W. Huang, Earliest presence of humans in northeast Asia, Nature 413 (2001) 413-417.]. Early humans of the Xiantai Paleolithic site lived in a steppe paleoenviromnent indicated from fossil pollens. Furthermore, the combined evidence of our magnetostratigraphy and previously published magnetochronology and paleoclimate data documents that early humans of North China were able to adjust to an increasing variability of paleoclimates and paleoenvironments over the Early Pleistocene. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
WOS关键词	DELTA-O-18 RECORD ; LOESS PLATEAU ; EAST-AFRICA ; GRAIN-SIZE ; CHINA ; EVOLUTION ; HOMO ; VARIABILITY ; PLEISTOCENE ; TIMESCALE
WOS研究方向	Geochemistry & Geophysics
语种	英语
出版者	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
WOS记录号	WOS:000236991300023
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.iggcas.ac.cn/handle/132A11/66252]
专题	中国科学院地质与地球物理研究所
通讯作者	Deng, CL
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geol & Geophys, Paleomagnetism & Geochronol Lab, SKL LE, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 3.Univ Southampton, Sch Ocean & Earth Sci, Southampton SO14 3ZH, Hants, England
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Deng, CL,Wei, Q,Zhu, RX,et al. Magneto stratigraphic age of the Xiantai Paleolithic site in the Nihewan Basin and implications for early human colonization of Northeast Asia[J]. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS,2006,244(1-2):336-348.
APA	Deng, CL.,Wei, Q.,Zhu, RX.,Wang, HQ.,Zhang, R.,...&Pan, YX.(2006).Magneto stratigraphic age of the Xiantai Paleolithic site in the Nihewan Basin and implications for early human colonization of Northeast Asia.EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS,244(1-2),336-348.
MLA	Deng, CL,et al."Magneto stratigraphic age of the Xiantai Paleolithic site in the Nihewan Basin and implications for early human colonization of Northeast Asia".EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 244.1-2(2006):336-348.