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| The earliest well-dated archeological site in the hyper-arid Tarim Basin and its implications for prehistoric human migration and climatic change | |
| Han, WenXia1,2,4; Yu, LuPeng2,3; Lai, ZhongPing1,2,4; Madsen, David5; Yang, Shengli6 | |
| 2014-07-01 | |
| Source Publication | QUATERNARY RESEARCH
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| Volume | 82Issue:1Pages:66-72 |
| Keyword | Osl And C-14 Dating Archeological Site Tarim Basin Tibetan Plateau Prehistoric Human Migration Silk Road Through The Taklimakan Desert |
| Abstract | The routes and timing of human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) are crucial for understanding the evolution of Tibetan populations and associated paleoclimatic conditions. Many archeological sites have been found in/around the Tarim Basin, on the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Unfortunately, most of these sites are surface sites and cannot be directly dated. Their ages can only be estimated based on imprecise artifact comparisons. We recently found and dated an archeological site on a terrace along the Kenya River. Outages indicate that the site was occupied at similar to 7.0-7.6 ka, making it the earliest well-dated archeological site yet identified in the Tarim Basin. This suggests that early human foragers migrated into this region prior to similar to 7.0-7.6 ka during the early to mid-Holocene climatic optimum, which may have provided the impetus for populating the region. We hypothesize that the Kenya River, together with the other rivers originating from the TP, may have served as access routes onto the TP for early human foragers. These rivers may also have served as stepping stones for migration further west into the now hyper-arid regions of the Tarim Basin, leading ultimately to the development of the Silk Road. (C) 2014 University of Washington. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
| Language | 英语 |
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| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://ir.isl.ac.cn/handle/363002/5685 |
| Collection | 青海盐湖研究所知识仓储 |
| Affiliation | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Qinghai Inst Salt Lakes, Key Lab Salt Lake Resources & Chem, Xining 810008, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Cold & Arid Reg Environm & Engn Res Inst, State Key Lab Cryospher Sci, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China 3.Qinghai Geol Survey Inst, Key Lab Geol Proc & Mineral Resources Northern Qi, Xining 810012, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Earth & Environm, State Key Lab Loess & Quaternary Geol, Xian 710075, Peoples R China 5.Univ Texas Austin, Texas Archeol Res Lab, Austin, TX 78712 USA 6.Nanjing Normal Univ, Coll Geog Sci, Nanjing 210046, Jiangsu, Peoples R China |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Han, WenXia,Yu, LuPeng,Lai, ZhongPing,et al. The earliest well-dated archeological site in the hyper-arid Tarim Basin and its implications for prehistoric human migration and climatic change[J]. QUATERNARY RESEARCH,2014,82(1):66-72. |
| APA | Han, WenXia,Yu, LuPeng,Lai, ZhongPing,Madsen, David,&Yang, Shengli.(2014).The earliest well-dated archeological site in the hyper-arid Tarim Basin and its implications for prehistoric human migration and climatic change.QUATERNARY RESEARCH,82(1),66-72. |
| MLA | Han, WenXia,et al."The earliest well-dated archeological site in the hyper-arid Tarim Basin and its implications for prehistoric human migration and climatic change".QUATERNARY RESEARCH 82.1(2014):66-72. |
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