Outburst flood at 1920 BCE supports historicity of China&apos;s Great Flood   and the Xia dynasty

doi:10.1126/science.aaf0842

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	Outburst flood at 1920 BCE supports historicity of China's Great Flood and the Xia dynasty
	Wu, Qinglong ; Zhao, Zhijun ; Liu, Li ; Granger, Darryl E. ; Wang, Hui ; Cohen, David J. ; Wu, Xiaohong ; Ye, Maolin ; Bar-Yosef, Ofer ; Lu, Bin ; Zhang, Jin ; Zhang, Peizhen ; Yuan, Daoyang ; Qi, Wuyun ; Cai, Linhai ; Bai, Shibiao
刊名	SCIENCE
	2016
DOI	10.1126/science.aaf0842
英文摘要	China's historiographical traditions tell of the successful control of a Great Flood leading to the establishment of the Xia dynasty and the beginning of civilization. However, the historicity of the flood and Xia remain controversial. Here, we reconstruct an earthquake-induced landslide dam outburst flood on the Yellow River about 1920 BCE that ranks as one of the largest freshwater floods of the Holocene and could account for the Great Flood. This would place the beginning of Xia at similar to 1900 BCE, several centuries later than traditionally thought. This date coincides with the major transition from the Neolithic to Bronze Age in the Yellow River valley and supports hypotheses that the primary state-level society of the Erlitou culture is an archaeological manifestation of the Xia dynasty.; National Science Foundation of China [40801010, 41271017]; Fundamental Research Grant of China [F-IGCEA-0607-1-10]; Chinese Geological Survey [121201102000150009-16]; Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions; National Science and Technology Support Program [2013BAK08B01]; A&HCI; SCI(E); PubMed; ARTICLE; wuqinglong@pku.edu.cn; 6299; 579-582; 353
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/491650]
专题	考古文博学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wu, Qinglong,Zhao, Zhijun,Liu, Li,et al. Outburst flood at 1920 BCE supports historicity of China's Great Flood and the Xia dynasty[J]. SCIENCE,2016.
APA	Wu, Qinglong.,Zhao, Zhijun.,Liu, Li.,Granger, Darryl E..,Wang, Hui.,...&Bai, Shibiao.(2016).Outburst flood at 1920 BCE supports historicity of China's Great Flood and the Xia dynasty.SCIENCE.
MLA	Wu, Qinglong,et al."Outburst flood at 1920 BCE supports historicity of China's Great Flood and the Xia dynasty".SCIENCE (2016).