Coping with Cold in North China during LGM: Evidence from Shizitan Site in Shanxi Province

Author(s): Yanhua Song; Bar-Yosef Ofer; Xiaohong Wu

Year: 2016

Summary

Influented by the global climate fluctuation in the Late Glacial Maximum(LGM, ca.24,000-18,000 KaBP), Chinese antient hunter-gatherers underwent the climate cooling. Shizitan Site completely recorded the surviving process of hunter-gatherers in the valleys of Middle Yellow River. Supported by 71 AMS 14C dates, more than 10m-thick layers with human occupations fall into the LGM period. Evidence shows that Shizitan Human dealed with the guadually cold weather by more general fire-using, conpound tool making, clothes sewing and more plant food processing.

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Coping with Cold in North China during LGM: Evidence from Shizitan Site in Shanxi Province. Yanhua Song, Bar-Yosef Ofer, Xiaohong Wu. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 404876)

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Keywords

Geographic Keywords
East/Southeast Asia

Spatial Coverage

min long: 66.885; min lat: -8.928 ; max long: 147.568; max lat: 54.059 ;