Today, Asian rivers play an important role in delivering sediment from the land to the
oceans. However, past sediment discharge before human activities modified the landscape …

Palaeo-hydrological and archaeological investigations were carried out in the Jianghan
Plain in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Based on a comparative analysis of …

Extreme hydrologic events such as storms and floods have the potential to severely impact
modern human society. However, the frequency of storms and their underlying mechanisms …

Profound archaeological transformations that mark the collapse of Neolithic Cultures around
Central China during the late third millennium BC have been identified widely. However, the …

This paper examines the main causes ofthe 1998 flood on the Yangtze and addresses a
numberof issues related to the exploitation of naturalresources and counter-measures to the …

Our review of recently published climatic proxy sequences shows that the most dramatic
climate tranistion of the mid Holocene (~ 8500–~ 3500 cal. yr BP) occurred at the middle-to …

Zhu, C., Ma, C., Yu, S.‐Y., Tang, L., Zhang, W. & Lu, X. 2009: A detailed pollen record of
vegetation and climate changes in Central China during the past 16 000 years. Boreas …

Peatlands provide a widespread terrestrial archive for Holocene study. However, little is
known about the grain-size characteristics of peaty sediments and their environmental …

Climatic changes in the Yangtze Delta have played an important role in the emergence,
persistence and collapse of civilization. Archaeological excavations in the region over many …

Based on grain size analysis and high-resolution elemental scanning of core YD0901, taken
from the subaqueous Yangtze River delta, a 600-year flood history was reconstructed for the …