Extreme flooding of the lower Yellow River near the Northgrippian-Meghalayan boundary Evidence from the Shilipu archaeological site in southwestern Shandong Province, China

	Extreme flooding of the lower Yellow River near the Northgrippian-Meghalayan boundary Evidence from the Shilipu archaeological site in southwestern Shandong Province, China
	Yu, Shi-Yong; Hou, Zhanfang; Chen, Xuexiang; Wang, Yixuan; Song, Yougui; Gao, Mingkui; Pan, Jianrong; Sun, Ming; Fang, Hui; Han, Jianye
刊名	GEOMORPHOLOGY
	2020-02-01
卷号	350
ISSN号	0169-555X
英文摘要	Understanding the societal impacts of past climate changes may deepen our insight into human adaptation and resilience against potential climate changes in the future. However, the degree and nature of climate-civilization link are still a matter of debate. Fluvial deposits preserved within a cultural stratigraphical context at archaeological sites in the lower Yellow River area may offer an exceptional framework for evaluating the role of climate changes in the rise and fall of ancient civilizations. Here we show evidence for great lower Yellow River floods during the Neolithic-Bronze Age transition about 4000-3500 years ago. Comparing with existing terrestrial and marine records suggests that they were a downstream manifestation of flooding in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, most likely triggered by excessive summer precipitation while a weak El Nino condition prevailed. The floods substantially modified the preexisting landscape and altered the agricultural conditions, thereby driving people dwelling on the higher mounds to move upward. Our results provide a past analogue of the linked climatic, environmental, and societal changes at a time when large and rapid climate changes occurred. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.isl.ac.cn/handle/363002/33993]
专题	青海盐湖研究所_管理部门中国科学院青海盐湖研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yu, Shi-Yong,Hou, Zhanfang,Chen, Xuexiang,et al. Extreme flooding of the lower Yellow River near the Northgrippian-Meghalayan boundary Evidence from the Shilipu archaeological site in southwestern Shandong Province, China[J]. GEOMORPHOLOGY,2020,350.
APA	Yu, Shi-Yong.,Hou, Zhanfang.,Chen, Xuexiang.,Wang, Yixuan.,Song, Yougui.,...&Chen, Fa-Hu.(2020).Extreme flooding of the lower Yellow River near the Northgrippian-Meghalayan boundary Evidence from the Shilipu archaeological site in southwestern Shandong Province, China.GEOMORPHOLOGY,350.
MLA	Yu, Shi-Yong,et al."Extreme flooding of the lower Yellow River near the Northgrippian-Meghalayan boundary Evidence from the Shilipu archaeological site in southwestern Shandong Province, China".GEOMORPHOLOGY 350(2020).