Seeing the wood for the trees: active human-environmental interactions in arid northwestern China
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| 作者 | Shen, Hui4,5; Spengler, Robert N.2,3; Zhou, Xinying4,5 ; Betts, Alison1; Jia, Peter Weiming1; Zhao, Keliang4,5; Li, Xiaoqiang4,5
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| 刊名 | EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA
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| 出版日期 | 2024-05-24 |
| 卷号 | 16期号:5页码:2483-2499 |
| ISSN号 | 1866-3508 |
| DOI | 10.5194/essd-16-2483-2024 |
| 通讯作者 | Li, Xiaoqiang(lixiaoqiang@ivpp.ac.cn) |
| 英文摘要 | Due largely to demographic growth, agricultural populations during the Holocene became increasingly more impactful ecosystem engineers. Multidisciplinary research has revealed a deep history of human-environmental dynamics; however, these pre-modern anthropogenic ecosystem transformations and cultural adaptions are still poorly understood. Here, we synthesis anthracological data to explore the complex array of human-environmental interactions in the regions of the prehistoric Silk Road. Our results suggest that these ancient humans were not passively impacted by environmental change; rather, they culturally adapted to, and in turn altered, arid ecosystems. Underpinned by the establishment of complex agricultural systems on the western Loess Plateau, people may have started to manage chestnut trees, likely through conservation of economically significant species, as early as 4600 BP. Since ca. 3500 BP, with the appearance of high-yielding wheat and barley farming in Xinjiang and the Hexi Corridor, people appear to have been cultivating Prunus and Morus trees. We also argue that people were transporting preferred coniferous woods over long distances to meet the need for fuel and timber. After 2500 BP, people in our study area were making conscious selections between wood types for craft production and were also clearly cultivating a wide range of long-generation perennials, showing a remarkable traditional knowledge tied into the arid environment. At the same time, the data suggest that there was significant deforestation throughout the chronology of occupation, including a rapid decline of slow-growing spruce forests and riparian woodlands across northwestern China. The wood charcoal dataset is publicly available at 10.5281/zenodo.8158277 (Shen et al., 2023). |
| WOS关键词 | CAL YR BP ; WESTERN LOESS PLATEAU ; HEXI CORRIDOR ; NW CHINA ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; YANGHAI TOMBS ; PALYNOLOGICAL EVIDENCE ; FOOD GLOBALIZATION ; CULTURAL RESPONSE ; PLANT UTILIZATION |
| 资助项目 | National Natural Science Foundation of China |
| WOS研究方向 | Geology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:001231862600001 |
| 出版者 | COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH |
| 资助机构 | National Natural Science Foundation of China |
| 源URL | [http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/23691]  |
| 专题 | 中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所 |
| 通讯作者 | Li, Xiaoqiang |
| 作者单位 | 1.Univ Sydney, Dept Archaeol, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia 2.Max Planck Inst Geoanthropol, Dept Archaeol, D-07745 Jena, Germany 3.Max Planck Inst Geoanthropol, Domesticat & Anthropogen Evolut Res Grp, Jena, Germany 4.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Earth & Planetary Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Shen, Hui,Spengler, Robert N.,Zhou, Xinying,et al. Seeing the wood for the trees: active human-environmental interactions in arid northwestern China[J]. EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA,2024,16(5):2483-2499. |
| APA | Shen, Hui.,Spengler, Robert N..,Zhou, Xinying.,Betts, Alison.,Jia, Peter Weiming.,...&Li, Xiaoqiang.(2024).Seeing the wood for the trees: active human-environmental interactions in arid northwestern China.EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA,16(5),2483-2499. |
| MLA | Shen, Hui,et al."Seeing the wood for the trees: active human-environmental interactions in arid northwestern China".EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA 16.5(2024):2483-2499. |
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