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Edited By
D.B. Madsen, University of Texas, Austin TX, USA
F. Chen, Lanzhou University, China
X. Gao, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
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Developments in Quaternary Sciences,
Description
Due to political pressures, prior to the 1990s little was known about the nature of human foraging adaptations in the deserts, grasslands,
and mountains of north western China during the last glacial period. Even less was known about the transition to agriculture that followed.
Now open to foreign visitation, there is now an increasing understanding of the foraging strategies which led both to the development
of millet agriculture and to the utilization of the extreme environments of the Tibetan Plateau. This text explores the transition from
the foraging societies of the Late Paleolithic to the emergence of settled farming societies and the emergent pastoralism of the middle
Neolithic striving to help answer the diverse and numerous questions of this critical transitional period.
Audience
Archeologists, human geographers, anthropologists, paleoclimatologists in archaeological institutes and those conducting research for natural history museums.
Contents
Part 1: Introduction
1-Archaeology at the Margins: Exploring the Late Paleolithic to Neolithic Transition in China's Arid West (David
B. Madsen, Chen Fa-Hu, and Gao Xing)
Part 2: Climate Change
2-Responses of Chinese Desert Lakes to Climate Instability During the Past
45,000 Years. (Bernd Wunnemann, Kai Hartmann, Manon Janssen, and Zhang Hucai Zhang)
3-Post-glacial Climate Variability and Drought Events
in the Monsoon Transition Zone of Western China (Chen Fa-Hu, Cheng Bo, Zhao Hui, Fan Yu-Xin, David B. Madsen, and Jin Ming)
4-Vegetation
Evolution in Arid China During Marine Isotope Stages 3 and 2 (~65-11 ka) (Ulrike Herzschuh and Liu Xingqi)
5-Holocene Vegetation and
Climate Changes from Fossil Pollen Records in Arid and Semi-arid China (Zhao Yan, Yu Zicheng, Chen Fa-Hu, and An Chengbang)
Part 3: Theoretical
Perspectives
6-Variation in Late Quaternary Central Asian Climates and the Nature of Human Response (David B. Madsen and Robert G. Elston)
7-The transition to Agriculture in Northwestern China (Robert L. Bettinger, Loukas Barton, Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, Wang Hui,
and Choi Won)
Part 4: Regional and Chronological Perspectives
8-Late Pleistocene Climate Change and Paleolithic Cultural Evolution in
Northern China: Implications from the Last Glacial Maximum (Loukas Barton, P. Jeffery Brantingham, and Ji Duxue)
9-A Short Chronology
for the Peopling of the Tibetan Plateau (P. Jeffrey Brantingham, Gao Xing, John W. Olsen, Ma Haizhou, David Rhode, Zhang Haiying, and
David B. Madsen)
10--Modeling the Neolithic on the Tibetan Plateau (Mark S. Aldenderfer)
11-Zooarchaeological Evidence for Animal Domestication
in Northwest China (Rowan K. Flad, Yuan Jing, and Li Shuicheng)
12-Yaks, Yak dung, and Prehistoric Human Habitation of the Tibetan Plateau
(David Rhode, David B. Madsen, P. Jeffrey Brantingham, and Tsultrim Dargye)
Part 5: Summary and Integration
13-Changing Views of late
Quaternary Human Adaptation in Arid China (David B. Madsen, Chen Fa-Hu, and Gao Xing)
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Hardbound, 244 pages, publication date: MAY-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-52962-6
ISBN-10: 0-444-52962-4
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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