scholarly journals Ancient Starch Remains Reveal the Vegetal Diet of the Neolithic Late Dawenkou Culture in Jiangsu, East China

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xi Zhang ◽  
Xiaoting Zhu ◽  
Yingfang Hu ◽  
Zhenyu Zhou ◽  
John W. Olsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Residue Analysis ◽  
Jiangsu Province ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Plant Resource ◽  
Broomcorn Millet ◽  
Huai River ◽  
Xuzhou City ◽  
Human Skulls ◽  
New Evidence

The Liangwangcheng site, located in Pizhou County, Xuzhou City, northern Jiangsu Province, is one of the most important Neolithic Dawenkou Culture archeological sites in the Haidai area of China’s eastern seaboard. In recent years, archaeobotanical studies in the Haidai area, mainly focusing on Shandong Province, have yielded fruitful results, while relatively few such studies have been undertaken in northern Jiangsu Province. Here, we report the results of dental residue analysis conducted on 31 individual human skulls unearthed from the Late Dawenkou Culture Liangwangcheng site. The starch granules extracted from these residue samples indicate that foxtail and broomcorn millet, rice, roots and tubers, and legumes comprised the vegetal diet of Liangwangcheng’s occupants. Evidence suggests that mixed rice–millet agriculture played a definite role, with the coexistence of gathering as an economic element. According to archaeobotanical evidence from surrounding cotemporaneous sites, the Late Neolithic human groups that lived in the lower Huang-Huai River drainage shared similar subsistence patterns. Our results provide new evidence for a more comprehensive understanding of plant resource utilization and agricultural development in northern Jiangsu during the Dawenkou period.

scholarly journals Beyond Newgrange: Brú na Bóinne in the later Neolithic

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Stephen Davis ◽  
Knut Rassmann
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Geophysical Survey ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
New Evidence

The Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site, Ireland is best known for its megalithic monuments, in particular the great developed passage tombs of Knowth, Dowth, and Newgrange, and its abundance of megalithic art. However, our understanding of the wider Brú na Bóinne landscape has changed beyond all recognition in the last decade owing to the application of modern, non-invasive survey technologies – in particular LiDAR and large-scale geophysical survey – and most recently as a result of the hot, dry summer of 2018 which revealed a series of remarkable cropmarks between Newgrange and the River Boyne. Despite a lack of excavation it can be argued, based on their morphological characteristics, that many of the structures revealed belong within the corpus of late Neolithic ritual/ceremonial structures, including earthen henges, square-in-circle monuments, palisaded enclosures, and pit/post-alignments. These display both extraordinary diversity, yet also commonality of design and architecture, both as a group and with the passage tombs that preceded them. This paper provides an up-to-date survey of the late Neolithic and presumed late Neolithic landscape of Brú na Bóinne. It provides new evidence and new insights from ongoing survey campaigns, suggesting parallels within the British Neolithic but also insular development within some monument classes.

The transformation of cropping patterns from Late Neolithic to Early Iron Age (5900–2100 BP) in the Gansu–Qinghai region of northwest China

The Holocene ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 095968362094113
Author(s):  
Lele Ren ◽  
Ying Yang ◽  
Qianqian Wang ◽  
Shanjia Zhang ◽  
Tingting Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Northwest China ◽  
Agricultural Management ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Agricultural System ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Cropping Patterns ◽  
History Of

The Gansu–Qinghai region lies in the key position for trans-Eurasian cultural exchange, and hence investigations of the history of agricultural development in this region are significant for understanding the spatiotemporal evolution of prehistoric crop dispersal in Eurasia. However, systematic archaeobotanical studies concerning the history of the development of prehistoric agriculture in this area are scarce. Here, based on archaeobotanical analysis and radiocarbon dating at the Jinchankou site, we investigated the history of agricultural development in the Datong River valley during the Qijia culture. Combined with previous archaeobotanical studies of the Gansu–Qinghai region, we explored the diachronic changes in the cropping patterns from the Late Neolithic to the Early Iron Age. The results suggest that millet remained the most important subsistence plant during 4100–3700 BP, while barley and wheat were first cultivated around 3900 BP at the Jinchankou site. Humans only cultivated foxtail and broomcorn millet in the Gansu–Qinghai region with a high level of agricultural management during 5900–4000 BP. Barley and wheat were added to the agricultural system in the area during 4000–3600 BP, although they played a subsidiary role compared with millet. During 3600–2100 BP, barley played an increasingly important role in the Gansu–Qinghai region but with evident differences among geomorphic units, and there was an obvious decrease in agricultural management level. It is likely that the transformation of cropping patterns and agricultural management levels in the Gansu–Qinghai region from 5900 to 2100 BP was primarily promoted by prehistoric trans-continental cultural exchange and secondly by climate change in the area.

Evolution Characteristic and Reclamation Potentiality of the Muddy Coast in Jiangsu Province, China

2014 ◽  
Vol 577 ◽  
pp. 1185-1188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Chen
Keyword(s):  
Salt Marshes ◽  
Yellow River ◽  
Yellow River Delta ◽  
Jiangsu Province ◽  
The Yellow Sea ◽  
The Yellow River ◽  
Subtidal Zone ◽  
High Deposition Rate ◽  
The North ◽  
Huai River

The study area was located in central coast of Jiangsu Province, China. The coast between Wanggang estuary and Chuandonggang estuary belonged to a typical accumulation muddy coast. When the Yellow River flowed into the Yellow Sea using the Huai River course, the coast deposited rapidly and the coastline advanced to the sea about 60 km. The deposition source stopped after the Yellow River returned to the north and flowed into the Bohai Sea. The entral coast of Jiangsu still maintained a high deposition rate in the supratidal zone because of the erosion supply of the abandoned Yellow River delta. But the subtidal zone was in the erosion state. The coast entered into the adjustment period in the 21st century and showed the equilibrium of the erosion and deposition. In recent years, the supratidal area decreased because of the reclaimation. The living space of the salt marshes was limited. The reclamation potentiality will be limited too in the future.

Comments

2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-73
Author(s):  
Stuart Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Level Of Detail ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Archaeological Material ◽  
Exceptional Preservation ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Degree Of Isolation

Because of the climate and the nature of the sites, most archaeological material in the Near East has survived the passage of time in a reasonably well preserved state (at least, until recent decades). It remains true, however, that occasional deposits with exceptional preservation provide a level of detail that opens up new areas of interpretation to archaeologists. The classic examples are, perhaps, Çatalhöyük and Nahal Hemar. The ‘Burnt Village’ at Sabi Abyad is proving to be another where the new evidence is leading to a series of publications offering interpretations of the settlement which will have profound implications for our perception of the late Neolithic in northern Mesopotamia. This stimulating article amplifies one area of discussion, attempting to bring some of the most striking features of the ‘Burnt Village’ into a single, unified interpretation. Importantly, this unified interpretation draws on a range of contemporary approaches to understanding the past and, given the tendency of near eastern archaeologists to function in a degree of isolation from wider archaeological trends, this article is to be particularly welcomed. Inevitably it can be criticised in certain areas and it might have gone further in others but these comments start from the basis of welcoming, enjoying and being stimulated by this piece of work.

scholarly journals Tracing pottery use and the emergence of secondary product exploitation through lipid residue analysis at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad (Syria)

2015 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 54-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse ◽  
Mélanie Roffet-Salque ◽  
Richard P. Evershed ◽  
Peter M.M.G. Akkermans ◽  
Anna Russell
Keyword(s):  
Residue Analysis ◽  
Secondary Product ◽  
Late Neolithic

scholarly journals New evidence on the impact of sustained exposure to air pollution on life expectancy from China’s Huai River Policy

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (39) ◽  
pp. 10384-10389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avraham Ebenstein ◽  
Maoyong Fan ◽  
Michael Greenstone ◽  
Guojun He ◽  
Maigeng Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Particulate Matter ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Airborne Particulate Matter ◽  
Estimation Methods ◽  
Regression Discontinuity Design ◽  
Airborne Particulate ◽  
Life Years ◽  
Huai River ◽  
The Impact ◽  
New Evidence

This paper finds that a 10-μg/m3 increase in airborne particulate matter [particulate matter smaller than 10 μm (PM10)] reduces life expectancy by 0.64 years (95% confidence interval = 0.21–1.07). This estimate is derived from quasiexperimental variation in PM10 generated by China’s Huai River Policy, which provides free or heavily subsidized coal for indoor heating during the winter to cities north of the Huai River but not to those to the south. The findings are derived from a regression discontinuity design based on distance from the Huai River, and they are robust to using parametric and nonparametric estimation methods, different kernel types and bandwidth sizes, and adjustment for a rich set of demographic and behavioral covariates. Furthermore, the shorter lifespans are almost entirely caused by elevated rates of cardiorespiratory mortality, suggesting that PM10 is the causal factor. The estimates imply that bringing all of China into compliance with its Class I standards for PM10 would save 3.7 billion life-years.

New Evidence from Dalma and Kura-Araxes Culture at Tapeh Qal‘e-ye-Sarsakhti

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akbar Abedi ◽  
Nasir Eskandari ◽  
Hamid Khatib Shahidi ◽  
Ismail Sharahi ◽  
Gholam Shirzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Zagros Mountains ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Iranian Plateau ◽  
East Central ◽  
Culture Influence ◽  
Late Chalcolithic ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
New Evidence

Tapeh Qal‘eh-ye-Sarsakhti is located between the Central Iranian Plateau and the Zagros Mountains, specifically in the entrance threshold to the Central Iranian Plateau from the eastern part of Central Zagros. It is a rich site including several periods: late Neolithic, Middle and Late Chalcolithic, Early and Middle Bronze Age, Parthian and eventually the Seljuk era. According to surveys conducted in the Central Zagros and in the Central Iranian Plateau, Tapeh Qal‘eh-ye-Sarsakhti appears to be one of the southeastern-most extensions of the Kura-Araxes and the eastern sphere of Dalma Culture influence in the Central Iranian Plateau and East Central Zagros. Here, we trace the nature of the arrival of these cultures to the East Central Zagros and Central Iranian Plateau, as well as the role this area played in transferring of these cultures from east to west, north to south and vice versa.

Phytoliths reveal the earliest interplay of rice and broomcorn millet at the site of Shuangdun (ca. 7.3–6.8 ka BP) in the middle Huai River valley, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 26-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wuhong Luo ◽  
Chunguang Gu ◽  
Yuzhang Yang ◽  
Dong Zhang ◽  
Zhonghe Liang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
River Valley ◽  
Broomcorn Millet ◽  
Huai River

Olive oil storage during the fifth and sixth millennia BC at Ein Zippori, Northern Israel

2015 ◽  
Vol 62 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 65-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dvory Namdar ◽  
Alon Amrani ◽  
Nimrod Getzov ◽  
Ianir Milevski
Keyword(s):  
Olive Oil ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Residue Analysis ◽  
Scale Production ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Oil Storage ◽  
Large Scale Production ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Organic Residue Analysis

Several occupation levels dating to the sixth to fifth millennia BC (the Wadi Rabah and pre-Ghassulian Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic cultures as well as the Early Bronze Age IB–II) were found in a salvage excavation conducted at Ein Zippori in the lower Galilee. Pottery vessels from the different periods were sampled for organic residue analysis study and were analyzed using gas chromatography (GC) coupled with mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Olive oil was one of the most common organic residues detected in the vessels, from the levels of the Wadi Rabah occupation and onwards (sixth to fifth millennia BC). This find throws new light on the exploitation of olives in the southern Levant as well as on the large-scale production and consumption of olive oil in the Late Pottery Neolithic and pre-Ghassulian Chalcolithic times.

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