Glacial cycles and Palaeolithic adaptive variability on China's Western Loess Plateau

Antiquity ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 85 (328) ◽  
pp. 365-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Morgan ◽  
Loukas Barton ◽  
Robert Bettinger ◽  
Fahu Chen ◽  
Zhang Dongju
Keyword(s):  
Loess Plateau ◽  
General Model ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Glacial Maximum ◽  
Glacial Cycles ◽  
Human Presence ◽  
Intensive Research ◽  
Adaptive Variability ◽  
Western Loess Plateau

Intensive research on China's Western Loess Plateau has located 63 Palaeolithic deposits, which together allow the authors to present a general model of hominin occupation from 80 000 to 18 000 years ago. Tools, subsistence and settlement correlate nicely with the climate: the warm wet MIS3 seeing expansion and more organised acquisition of quartz, and the Late Glacial Maximum that followed, a reduction in human presence but possibly an increase in ingenuity.

Effects of Lucerne Removal Time on Soil Water and Productivity in a Lucerne- Wheat Rotation on the Western Loess Plateau

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 686-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling-Ling LI ◽  
Gao-Bao HUANG ◽  
Ren-Zhi ZHANG ◽  
Li-Qun CAI ◽  
Zhu-Zhu LUO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soil Water ◽  
Loess Plateau ◽  
Removal Time ◽  
Western Loess Plateau

Plant diversity of the Tianshui Basin in the western Loess Plateau during the mid-Holocene – Charcoal records from archaeological sites

2013 ◽  
Vol 308-309 ◽  
pp. 27-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nan Sun ◽  
Xiaoqiang Li ◽  
John Dodson ◽  
Xinying Zhou ◽  
Keliang Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Loess Plateau ◽  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Tianshui Basin ◽  
Western Loess Plateau

Reconstruction of the Early Mérida, pre-LGM glaciation with comparison to Late Glacial Maximum till, northwestern Venezuelan Andes

2010 ◽  
Vol 226 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 29-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Mahaney ◽  
Volli Kalm ◽  
John Menzies ◽  
Michael W. Milner
Keyword(s):  
Late Glacial ◽  
Glacial Maximum

scholarly journals Seesaw pattern in dust accumulation on the Chinese Loess Plateau forced by late glacial shifts in the East Asian monsoon

Geology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. 871-874 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiwei Xu ◽  
Thomas Stevens ◽  
Shuangwen Yi ◽  
Joseph A. Mason ◽  
Huayu Lu
Keyword(s):  
Loess Plateau ◽  
Asian Monsoon ◽  
East Asian Monsoon ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Chinese Loess Plateau ◽  
Chinese Loess ◽  
The Chinese Loess Plateau ◽  
Dust Accumulation

scholarly journals Effects of Stubble Management on Soil Fertility and Crop Yield of Rainfed Area in Western Loess Plateau, China

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. B. Huang ◽  
Z. Z. Luo ◽  
L. L. Li ◽  
R. Z. Zhang ◽  
G. D. Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Soil Fertility ◽  
Loess Plateau ◽  
Soil N ◽  
The Loess Plateau ◽  
Stubble Retention ◽  
Severe Erosion ◽  
Agriculture Sustainability ◽  
Sloping Land ◽  
Western Loess Plateau

The combination of continuous cereal cropping, tillage and stubble removal reduces soil fertility and increases soil erosion on sloping land. The objective of the present study was to assessment soil fertility changes under stubble removal and stubble retention in the Loess Plateau where soil is prone to severe erosion. It was indicated that soil N increased a lot for and two stubble retention treatments had the higher N balance at the end of two rotations. Soil K balance performed that soil K was in deficient for all treatments and two stubble retention treatments had lower deficit K. The treatments with stubble retention produced higher grain yields than the stubble removal treatments. It was concluded that stubble retention should be conducted to increase crops productivity, improve soil fertility as well as agriculture sustainability in the Loess plateau, China.

A record of the Blake Event during the last interglacial paleosol in the western Loess Plateau of China

1997 ◽  
Vol 146 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 73-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Min Fang ◽  
Ji-Jun Li ◽  
Rob Van der Voo ◽  
Conall Mac Niocaill ◽  
Xue-Rong Dai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Loess Plateau ◽  
Last Interglacial ◽  
Western Loess Plateau
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