Subsistence strategies of prehistoric hunter-gatherers on the Tibetan Plateau during the Last Deglaciation

作     者：Jian WANG Huan XIA Juanting YAO Xuke SHEN Ting CHENG Qianqian WANG Dongju ZHANG Jian WANG;Huan XIA;Juanting YAO;Xuke SHEN;Ting CHENG;Qianqian WANG;Dongju ZHANG

作者机构：Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems(Ministry of Education)College of Earth Environmental SciencesLanzhou UniversityLanzhou 730000China Qinghai Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeological ResearchXining 810007China 

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

年 卷 期：2020年第63卷第3期

页      面：395-404页

核心收录：

学科分类：070903[理学-古生物学与地层学(含：古人类学)] 060305[历史学-专门史与整体史] 06[历史学] 0709[理学-地质学] 07[理学] 0603[历史学-世界史] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41771225 & 41620104007) the Primary Supports for Scientific Research of Lanzhou University (Grant Nos. LZUJBKY-2016-254, LZUJBKY-2016-279 & LZUJBKY-2018-144) China Scholarship Council 

主　　题：Tibetan Plateau Last Deglacial 151 site Hunter-gatherers Taphonomy Zooarchaeology Subsistence strategy 

摘      要：The study of prehistoric hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies on the Tibetan Plateau is important for understanding the mechanisms and processes of human adaption to high altitude *** to date,only a few Paleolithic sites have been found on the Tibetan Plateau with clear stratigraphy and reliable *** sites are mainly distributed in the Qinghai Lake Basin on the northeastern part of the plateau,and the sporadic fauna and flora remains excavated provide limited information about the subsistence strategies of *** 2014,relatively abundant animal remains were unearthed in the Lower Cultural Layer (LCL,15400-13100 cal yr BP) of the151 sitelocated in the Qinghai Lake Basin,providing important information about human subsistence strategies on the Tibetan Plateau during the Last *** analysis of these faunal remains indicates that hunter-gatherers at the151 sitemainly targeted large ungulates of Bos and wild horse/ass,and only brought back the most nutritious parts of animal carcasses including upper and intermediate limb bones,heads,and trunks (ribs and vertebrae).People then processed and consumed the carcasses around single *** comprehensive analyses of contemporaneous sites in the Qinghai Lake Basin show that a subsistence strategy involving opportunistic hunting of ungulates,high mobility,and short occupation of campsites was used by terminal Pleistocene huntergatherers to adapt to the high-altitude environment on the Tibetan *** subsistence strategy may have been a first step of gradual hunter-gatherer adaptation to the extreme conditions on the Tibetan Plateau after the Last Glacial Maximum,and laid the foundation for the widespread distribution of hunter-gatherers on the plateau during the Holocene.