dc.contributor.author
Hosner, Dominic
dc.contributor.author
Wagner, Mayke
dc.contributor.author
Tarasov, Pavel E.
dc.contributor.author
Chen, Xiaocheng
dc.contributor.author
Leipe, Christian
dc.date.accessioned
2017-10-01
dc.date.available
2017-12-01T12:25:52.296Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/14033
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-18230
dc.description.abstract
A total of 51,074 archaeological sites from the early Neolithic to the early
Iron Age (c. 8000–500 BC), with a spatial extent covering most regions of
China (c. 73–131°E and c. 20–53°N), were analysed over space and time in this
study. Site maps of 25 Chinese provinces, autonomous regions and
municipalities, published in the series ‘Atlas of Chinese Cultural Relics’,
were used to extract, digitalise and correlate its archaeological data. The
data were, in turn, entered into a database using a self-developed mapping
software that makes the data, in a dynamic way, analysable as a contribution
to various scientific questions, such as population growth and migrations,
spread of agriculture and changes in subsistence strategies. The results
clearly show asynchronous patterns of changes between the northern and
southern parts of China (i.e. north and south of the Yangtze River,
respectively) but also within these macro-regions. In the northern part of
China (i.e. along the Yellow River and its tributaries and in the Xiliao River
basin), the first noticeable increase in the concentration of Neolithic sites
occurred between c. 5000 and 4000 BC; however, highest site concentrations
were reached between c. 2000 and 500 BC. Our analysis shows a radical north-
eastern shift of high site-density clusters (over 50 sites per 100 × 100 km
grid cell) from the Wei and middle/lower Yellow Rivers to the Liao River
system sometime between 2350 BC and 1750 BC. This shift is hypothetically
discussed in the context of the incorporation of West Asian domesticated
animals and plants into the existing northern Chinese agricultural system. In
the southern part of China, archaeological sites do not show a noticeable
increase in the absolute number of sites until after c. 1500 BC, reaching a
maximum around 1000 BC.
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dc.rights.uri
http://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-green-route-%E2%80%93-open-access-archiving-policy
dc.subject
archaeological sites
dc.subject
GIS analysis Neolithic
dc.subject
spatiotemporal distribution patterns
dc.subject.ddc
500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie
dc.title
Spatiotemporal distribution patterns of archaeological sites in China during
the Neolithic and Bronze Age
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation
The Holocene. - 26 (2016), 10, S. 1576-1593
dc.title.subtitle
An overview
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1177/0959683616641743
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
http://hol.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/04/25/0959683616641743
refubium.affiliation
Geowissenschaften
de
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FUDOCS_document_000000024458
refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
no
refubium.mycore.derivateId
FUDOCS_derivate_000000006944
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access