Climate as a factor for Neolithic cultural collapses approximately 4000 years BP in China

Q Sun, Y Liu, B Wünnemann, Y Peng, X Jiang… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Although archaeological findings show the synchronous collapses of major well-
documented Chinese Neolithic cultures around 4000 cal. yr BP, the driving mechanism for …

A review of Holocene solar-linked climatic variation on centennial to millennial timescales: Physical processes, interpretative frameworks and a new multiple cross …

W Soon, VMV Herrera, K Selvaraj, R Traversi… - Earth-Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
We report on the existence and nature of Holocene solar and climatic variations on
centennial to millennial timescales. We introduce a new solar activity proxy, based on nitrate …

The variation of summer monsoon precipitation in central China since the last deglaciation

Y Cai, L Tan, H Cheng, Z An, RL Edwards… - Earth and Planetary …, 2010 - Elsevier
Two stalagmites (C996-1 and C996-2) collected from the Jiuxian Cave in the Shaanxi
Province in central China have been studied with U-series dating and stable isotope …

Normalizing XRF-scanner data: a cautionary note on the interpretation of high-resolution records from organic-rich lakes

L Löwemark, HF Chen, TN Yang, M Kylander… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2011 - Elsevier
X-ray fluorescence (XRF) scanning of unlithified, untreated sediment cores is becoming an
increasingly common method used to obtain paleoproxy data from lake records. XRF …

Holocene precipitation and temperature variations in the East Asian monsoonal margin from pollen data from Hulun Lake in northeastern Inner Mongolia, China

R Wen, J Xiao, Z Chang, D Zhai, Q Xu, Y Li, S Itoh - Boreas, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Wen, RL, Xiao, JL, Chang, ZG, Zhai, DY, Xu, QH, Li, YC & Itoh, S. 2009: Holocene
precipitation and temperature variations in the East Asian monsoonal margin from pollen …

Late Holocene forcing of the Asian winter and summer monsoon as evidenced by proxy records from the northern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

X Liu, H Dong, X Yang, U Herzschuh, E Zhang… - Earth and Planetary …, 2009 - Elsevier
Little is known about decadal-to centennial-scale climate variability and its associated
forcing mechanisms on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau. A decadal-resolution record of total …

Dipolar mode of precipitation changes between north China and the Yangtze River Valley existed over the entire Holocene: Evidence from the sediment record of …

J Liu, Z Shen, W Chen, J Chen, X Zhang… - International Journal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Instrumental data indicate the occurrence of a dipolar pattern of precipitation anomalies
between north China and the Yangtze River Valley (YRV), which was termed “northern …

Provenance weathering and erosion records in southern Okinawa Trough sediments since 28 ka: Geochemical and Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic evidences

Y Dou, S Yang, X Shi, PD Clift, S Liu, J Liu, C Li, L Bi… - Chemical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Geochemical and Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic compositions of the detrital sediments from
ODP Hole 1202B and Taiwan rivers were measured in this study, aiming to reveal changes …

Timing of Late Quaternary palaeolake evolution in Tengger Desert of northern China and its possible forcing mechanisms

H Long, ZP Lai, M Fuchs, JR Zhang, Y Li - Global and Planetary Change, 2012 - Elsevier
Palaeolake evolution history has been used to reconstruct the Late Quaternary
environmental and climatic conditions in East Asian monsoon area. In this study, based on …

Juxtaposition of western Pacific subtropical high on Asian Summer Monsoon shapes subtropical East Asian precipitation

H Xu, Y Goldsmith, J Lan, L Tan, X Wang… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing lines of evidence question the homogenous response of Asian Summer
Monsoon (ASM) precipitation patterns, requiring rethinking of the forcing mechanisms. Here …