The 5.5 cal ka BP climate event, population growth, circumscription and the emergence of the earliest complex societies in China
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| 作者 | Wu WenXiang2 ; Zheng HongBo3; Hou Mei1,2; Ge QuanSheng2
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| 刊名 | SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES
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| 出版日期 | 2018-02-01 |
| 卷号 | 61期号:2页码:134-148 |
| 关键词 | 5.5 cal ka BP climate event Population growth Circumscription Complex society Driving mechanisms |
| ISSN号 | 1674-7313 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11430-017-9157-1 |
| 通讯作者 | Wu WenXiang(wuwx@igsnrr.ac.cn) ; Ge QuanSheng(geqs@igsnrr.ac.cn) |
| 英文摘要 | The emergence of complex society is a milestone in the history of human society evolution. China is one of the few regions in the world where the earliest complex society appeared; however, its driving mechanisms remain unresolved. On the base of available evidence from both archaeology and Holocene climate, in combination with agency theory, this study attempts to address the driving mechanisms for the simultaneous emergence of complex societies in multiple areas of China around 5.5 cal ka BP. It is hypothesized that three factors, including climate change, population growth, and circumscription, jointly act and cause regional population-resource imbalance and trigger inter-group conflicts and wars. Such competitions provide the opportunity for some power-pursuing agents to break the restriction of social leveling mechanism and to become the centralized decision-making leaders, which further lead to the emergence of incipient large-scale complex societies. Increase in extreme climate events during 6.0-5.0 cal ka BP cooling period causes frequent occurrence of resource stress and increase in the frequency of inter-group competitions, which creates conditions for the legitimation, institutionalization, and persistence of centralized leadership, and finally leads to the formation of persistent institutionalized inequity. Our research result can explain not only the process and mechanism of complex society formation, but also two phenomena which cannot be reasonably explained by previous theories, that are, why the earliest complex societies in China emerge around 5.5 cal ka BP, and why they appear simultaneously in multiple regions. |
| WOS关键词 | ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON ; NORTH-ATLANTIC CLIMATE ; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE ; ICE CORE RECORDS ; TIBETAN PLATEAU ; HIGH-RESOLUTION ; LAST DEGLACIATION ; SOCIAL EVOLUTION ; HOLOCENE EPOCH ; VARIABILITY |
| 资助项目 | National Natural Science Foundation of China[41672176] ; State Key Basic Research and Development Program[2015CB953802] |
| WOS研究方向 | Geology |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000424032300002 |
| 出版者 | SCIENCE PRESS |
| 资助机构 | National Natural Science Foundation of China ; State Key Basic Research and Development Program |
| 源URL | [http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/56968]  |
| 专题 | 中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所 |
| 通讯作者 | Wu WenXiang; Ge QuanSheng |
| 作者单位 | 1.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Key Lab Land Surface Pattern & Simulat, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 3.Yunnan Univ, Res Ctr Earth Syst Sci, Kunming 650091, Yunnan, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Wu WenXiang,Zheng HongBo,Hou Mei,et al. The 5.5 cal ka BP climate event, population growth, circumscription and the emergence of the earliest complex societies in China[J]. SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES,2018,61(2):134-148. |
| APA | Wu WenXiang,Zheng HongBo,Hou Mei,&Ge QuanSheng.(2018).The 5.5 cal ka BP climate event, population growth, circumscription and the emergence of the earliest complex societies in China.SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES,61(2),134-148. |
| MLA | Wu WenXiang,et al."The 5.5 cal ka BP climate event, population growth, circumscription and the emergence of the earliest complex societies in China".SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES 61.2(2018):134-148. |
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