Stable Isotope Analysis of Mammalian Enamel From the Early Pleistocene Site of Madigou, Nihewan Basin: Implications for Reconstructing Hominin Paleoenvironmental Adaptations in North China
文献类型:期刊论文
作者 | Xu, Zhe3,4,5; Pei, Shuwen4,5; Hu, Yaowu2; de la Torre, Ignacio1; Ma, Dongdong4,5 |
刊名 | FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE
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出版日期 | 2021-12-24 |
卷号 | 9页码:10 |
关键词 | stable isotopes paleoenvironmental variability Middle Pleistocene Climate Transition (MPT) human adaptations Madigou site Nihewan basin North China |
DOI | 10.3389/feart.2021.789781 |
通讯作者 | Pei, Shuwen(peishuwen@ivpp.ac.cn) |
英文摘要 | The reconstruction of environmental and climatic changes in the Pleistocene is an essential contribution to our understanding of human evolutionary and behavioral adaptations. Well preserved fluvio-lacustrine sediments at Nihewan basin have yielded a rich record of Early Pleistocene Paleolithic sites and mammalian fossils which provide a unique opportunity for exploring hominin behavior and paleoecology in North China. Taxonomic studies of mammalian fossils have provided important clues to the general environmental setting and landscapes of Early Pleistocene humans in the fluvio-lacustrine basin of Nihewan, but little is known about their isotopic signatures. In this paper, mammal teeth species at the Madigou archaeological site (ca. 1.2 Ma) were selected for bulk and sequential enamel stable isotope (C, O) analysis. Results show a variety of ecological environments, including grassland and sparse forest landscapes, and distinct patterns across taxa. C-3-C-4 mixed vegetation predominated, but C-4 vegetation was also relevant at times. Madigou early humans likely experienced cold/warm or dry/wet fluctuations in this northern China basin. We hypothesize that the environmental fluctuations and diversified landscapes may have driven flexibility in various aspects of early human technological behaviors, and allowed hominins to face the environmental challenges of northern latitudes after the initial expansion from Africa into East Asia at the onset of the Middle Pleistocene Climate Transition. |
WOS关键词 | OXYGEN ISOTOPES ; CARBON ISOTOPES ; TOOTH ENAMEL ; EVOLUTION ; CLIMATE ; TRANSITION ; AFRICA ; RECORD ; FRACTIONATION ; COLONIZATION |
资助项目 | Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB26000000] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41872029] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41372032] ; ERC-Advanced Grant (Horizon 2020) ; BICAEHFID[832980] |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000743540000001 |
出版者 | FRONTIERS MEDIA SA |
资助机构 | Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; ERC-Advanced Grant (Horizon 2020) ; BICAEHFID |
源URL | [http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/19264] ![]() |
专题 | 古脊椎动物与古人类研究所_图书馆1 |
通讯作者 | Pei, Shuwen |
作者单位 | 1.CSIC Spanish Natl Res Council, Inst Hist, Dept Archeol, Madrid, Spain 2.Fudan Univ, Dept Cultural Heritage & Museol, Shanghai, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Sch Humanities, Beijing, Peoples R China 4.CAS Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Beijing, Peoples R China 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Xu, Zhe,Pei, Shuwen,Hu, Yaowu,et al. Stable Isotope Analysis of Mammalian Enamel From the Early Pleistocene Site of Madigou, Nihewan Basin: Implications for Reconstructing Hominin Paleoenvironmental Adaptations in North China[J]. FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE,2021,9:10. |
APA | Xu, Zhe,Pei, Shuwen,Hu, Yaowu,de la Torre, Ignacio,&Ma, Dongdong.(2021).Stable Isotope Analysis of Mammalian Enamel From the Early Pleistocene Site of Madigou, Nihewan Basin: Implications for Reconstructing Hominin Paleoenvironmental Adaptations in North China.FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE,9,10. |
MLA | Xu, Zhe,et al."Stable Isotope Analysis of Mammalian Enamel From the Early Pleistocene Site of Madigou, Nihewan Basin: Implications for Reconstructing Hominin Paleoenvironmental Adaptations in North China".FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE 9(2021):10. |
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来源:古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
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