Environmental background of evolution from the paleolithic to neolithic culture in Nihewan Basin, North China |
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Authors: | XIA Zhengkai Chen Fuyou CHEN Ge ZHENG Gongwang XIE Fei MEI Huijie |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, 2. Hebei Province Cultural Relic Institute, |
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Abstract: | The relationship between the paleolithic-neolithic cultural transition and environmental evolvement has been a focus of the
paleoanthropologists, archeologists, and Quaternary geologists in the world. The analysis result of the paleoanthropic living
environment at Yujiagou site of Nihewan Basin in the north of China shows that the microlithic culture at the Yujiagou site
occurred during the opening centuries of the last deglaciation and developed markedly in the continuous warm and dry climatic
conditions from late period of last deglaciation to early postglacial. Moreover, it also shows that the neolithic culture
at the Yujiagou site occurred in the early postglacial and developed rapidly in a warm and humid climatic condition in the
Holocene Megathermal. Climate variation is an important factor leading to the paleolithic-neolithic cultural transition. |
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Keywords: | Yujiagou site microlith the paleolithic-neolithic cultural transition |
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