Human activity during the late Pleistocene in the Lop Nur region, northwest China: Evidence from a buried stone artifact

doi:10.1007/s11430-017-9257-3

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	Human activity during the late Pleistocene in the Lop Nur region, northwest China: Evidence from a buried stone artifact
	Li, Kangkang 1,2,3; Qin, Xiaoguang 1,2; Yang, Xiaoyan 4; Xu, Bing 1,3; Zhang, Lei 1; Mu, Guijin 5; Wei, Dong 6; Wang, Chunxue 6; Wu, Yong 7; Tian, Xiaohong 7
刊名	SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES
	2018-11-01
卷号	61 期号:11 页码:1659-1668
关键词	Lop Nur Late Pleistocene Stone artefact Human activity Paleo-environment
ISSN号	1674-7313
DOI	10.1007/s11430-017-9257-3
英文摘要	The Lop Nur region, in the east part of Tarim Basin, was an important transportation junction between west and east, north and south Eurasia. However, previous studies on prehistoric human activity have concentrated mostly on the Bronze Age, whereas that during the Stone Age remains largely unresearched. Here, we present a new direct evidence of human activity in the late Pleistocene, recorded on a grinding stone buried in a lacustrine sediment section of the Lop Nur region. The grain size distribution of the sediment section indicates that the site was probably in the center of a lake with weak hydrodynamic environment. Therefore, the stone artifact can only be carried to here by people instead of river and it was never move as soon as left here. Results of radiocarbon dating, the evident stratigraphic relations between the stone artifact and the sedimentary formation, indicate that the human activity could extend to approximately 13 ka BP. Furthermore, the results of starch-grain and use-wear analyses suggest that ancient humans gathered seeds of Triticeae, roots, and tubers and used the grinding stone to simply process selected plant as plant foodstuffs during this period. It implies that the environmental conditions in the river delta of the Lop Nur were inhabitable during the late Pleistocene.
资助项目	Ministry of Science and Technology of China[2014FY210500] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41372187]
WOS关键词	OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE ; STARCH GRAIN ANALYSIS ; EARLY HOLOCENE ; LAST DEGLACIATION ; GRINDING STONES ; MIDDLE HOLOCENE ; ANCIENT LOULAN ; BOSTEN LAKE ; XINJIANG ; SITE
WOS研究方向	Geology
语种	英语
出版者	SCIENCE PRESS
WOS记录号	WOS:000449781200009
资助机构	Ministry of Science and Technology of China ; Ministry of Science and Technology of China ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Ministry of Science and Technology of China ; Ministry of Science and Technology of China ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Ministry of Science and Technology of China ; Ministry of Science and Technology of China ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Ministry of Science and Technology of China ; Ministry of Science and Technology of China ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; National Natural Science Foundation of China
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.iggcas.ac.cn/handle/132A11/89420]
专题	地质与地球物理研究所_中国科学院新生代地质与环境重点实验室
通讯作者	Qin, Xiaoguang
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geol & Geophys, Key Lab Cenozo Geol & Environm, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China 2.CAS Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironment, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Tibetan Plateau Res, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Xinjiang Inst Ecol & Geog, Urumqi 830011, Peoples R China 6.Jilin Univ, Sch Archaeol, Changchun 130012, Jilin, Peoples R China 7.Xinjiang Inst Archaeol, Urumqi 830011, Peoples R China 8.Bur Cultural Heritage Ruoqiang Cty, Ruoqiang 841800, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Kangkang,Qin, Xiaoguang,Yang, Xiaoyan,et al. Human activity during the late Pleistocene in the Lop Nur region, northwest China: Evidence from a buried stone artifact[J]. SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES,2018,61(11):1659-1668.
APA	Li, Kangkang.,Qin, Xiaoguang.,Yang, Xiaoyan.,Xu, Bing.,Zhang, Lei.,...&Jiao, Yinxin.(2018).Human activity during the late Pleistocene in the Lop Nur region, northwest China: Evidence from a buried stone artifact.SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES,61(11),1659-1668.
MLA	Li, Kangkang,et al."Human activity during the late Pleistocene in the Lop Nur region, northwest China: Evidence from a buried stone artifact".SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES 61.11(2018):1659-1668.