Amelioration of habitat since the early Holocene contributed to the origin of agriculture in the farming-pastoral zone of northern China

作     者：Xin JIA Zhiping ZHANG Yonggang SUN Runqi JIANG Shuangwen YI Wei CHEN Jue SUN Guoqiang LI Shuzhi WANG Enrui LI Xiaonong HU Qingchun BAO Harry F.LEE Huayu LU 

作者机构：Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and ApplicationNanjing 210023China Schlool of History and CultureChifeng UniversityChifeng 024000China School of Geography and Ocean ScienceNanjing UniversityNanjing 210023China State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and StratigraphyNanjing Institute of Geology and PalaeontologyChinese Academy of SciencesNanjing 210008China Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems(Ministry of Education)College of Earth and Environmental SciencesLanzhou UniversityLanzhou 730000China Institute of ArchaeologyChinese Academy of Social SciencesBeijing 100710China Ulanqab MuseumUlanqab 012000China The Institute of Cultural Relics and ArchaeologyHohhot 010011China Department of Geography and Resource ManagementThe Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong 999077China Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment(Ministry of Education of PRC)Nanjing Normal UniversityNanjing 210023China School of GeographyNanjing Normal UniversityNanjing 210023China Institute of Environmental ArchaeologyNanjing Normal UniversityNanjing 210023China 

出 版 物：《Science China Earth Sciences》 (中国科学（地球科学英文版）)

年 卷 期：2024年第67卷第8期

页      面：2535-2546页

核心收录：

学科分类：0601[历史学-考古学] 060107[历史学-文化遗产与博物馆] 06[历史学] 060109[历史学-专门考古] 

基　　金：supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2022YFF0903500) the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.42271163,42301173) 

主　　题：Origin of agriculture Accumulative environmental effects Yumin Culture Northern China Holocene 

摘      要：The origin of agriculture in the farming-pastoral zone of northern China remains in *** central region of the Inner Mongolia Plateau is located in the core area of the farming-pastoral zone;thus,it is a critical region for exploring the origin of the dryland farming system in northern *** study selected the Yumin Site and Banan Site,which belong to the Yumin Culture-the beginning of Neolithic culture in Inner Mongolia-as the research *** on the quartz optically stimulated luminescence(OSL)dating on the sedimentary sections from the Yumin site(YM)and Banan site(BN1 and BN2),the Holocene chronology framework of each section was *** that,by identifying carbonized grains in the Yumin site and the multi-proxy analysis of each section,we investigated the relationship between the origin of agriculture and climate change in this *** results revealed that the timing of the origin of agriculture recorded in the Yumin site lagged behind the timing of a significant increase of precipitation during the early Holocene but coincided with the timing of a significant increase of vegetation around 8.4 *** phenomenon was further confirmed by the published high-resolution paleoenvironmental records from the surrounding area of the Yumin *** propose that with the gradual amelioration of hydrothermal conditions since the beginning of the Holocene,the regional ecosystem had been improved,resulting in the gradual conversion of the land surface from infertile sand to organic-rich soil,providing an appropriate environmental foundation for the origin of dryland farming in northern China around 8.4 *** study highlighted that the“accumulative environmental effectsduring the early Holocene played a vital role in the origin of agriculture in northern China and provided a reference for agricultural management in the context of future climate change.