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Cover of: Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China, Volume 9 (Developments in Quaternary Sciences) (Developments in Quaternary Sciences)
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Late quaternary climate change and human adaptation in arid China
2007, Elsevier, Elsevier Science
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Table of 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 Wönnemann, 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 (6̃5-11 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)

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Amsterdam, Boston
Series
Developments in quaternary sciences -- 9

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Library of Congress
QC884.5.C6 L38 2007, QC884.5.C6

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237 p. :
Number of pages
237

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OL17238100M
ISBN 10
0444529624
ISBN 13
9780444529626
LCCN
2010459075
OCLC/WorldCat
162136037, 122283142
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1791299

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