Anthropogenic origins of a late Holocene, basin-wide unconformity in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, the Luoyang Basin, Henan Province, China

Storozum, Michael; Mo, Duowen; Wu, Hui; Ren, Xiaolin; Zhang, Yifei; Kidder, Tristram R.

doi:10.1017/qua.2017.10

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“…The levee breach had the anticipated effect of directing the floodwaters to the east, but it also had the unanticipated effect of diverting the Yellow River southward out to the Bohai Sea, a course the Yellow River would more or less maintain until AD 1855 (Lamouroux, 1998). The rapid change in base level of the Yellow River likely caused many smaller tributary streams in the middle reaches of the Yellow River to rapidly incise their channels, further increasing the sedimentation rate downstream into the Yellow River’s lower reaches while simultaneously destabilizing some of the built infrastructure that supported urban centers in the middle reaches of the Yellow River (Storozum et al, 2017b).…”

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The collapse of the North Song dynasty and the AD 1048–1128 Yellow River floods: Geoarchaeological evidence from northern Henan Province, China

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From AD 1048 to 1128, Yellow River flooding killed over a million people, left many more homeless and destitute, and turned parts of the once fertile North China Plain into a silted-up agricultural wasteland. Brought on in part by climate change and the Northern Song dynasty's (AD 960-1127) mismanagement of the environment, the Yellow River floods likely hastened the collapse of the Northern Song dynasty. Despite the magnitude of this flood event, no sedimentary deposits have yet been linked to these historically recorded floods. In this research paper, we provide archaeological, sedimentary, and radiocarbon evidence of the AD 1048-1128 Yellow River floods at the Dazhanglongcun, Xidacheng, and Daguxiancun sites in Neihuang County, Henan Province. Based on our data, we argue that the AD 1048-1128 Yellow River floods deposited over 5 m of alluvium on villages in the North China Plain, radically changing both the physical and political landscape of Northern Song dynasty China.

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The collapse of the North Song dynasty and the AD 1048–1128 Yellow River floods: Geoarchaeological evidence from northern Henan Province, China

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“…We recovered two wood samples and two bulk organic samples from core 2007Z3, as well as five charcoal samples from core 2007Z2 for radiocarbon dating. We only focus on the sediment core below 4.25 m because a sedimentation hiatus between ~6000 and 4000 cal yr BP (Xia et al, 2014) and late Holocene human activities that have influenced landform evolution (Storozum et al, 2017) and ecological composition (Cao et al, 2010) complicate the pollen and sedimentologic analyses.…”

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Early–middle Holocene ecological change and its influence on human subsistence strategies in the Luoyang Basin, north-central China

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In north-central China, subsistence practices transitioned from hunting and gathering to millet-based agriculture between the early and middle Holocene. To better understand how ancient environmental changes influenced this shift in subsistence strategies and human activities at regional to local levels, we conducted palynological and lithologic analyses on radiocarbon-dated sediment cores from the Luoyang Basin, western Henan Province. Our palynological results suggest that vegetation shifted from broad-leaved deciduous forest (9230–8850 cal yr BP) to steppe-meadow vegetation (8850–7550 cal yr BP), and then to steppe with sparse trees (7550–6920 cal yr BP). Lithologic analyses also indicate that the stabilization of the Luoyang Basin’s floodplain after ~8370 cal yr BP might have attracted people to move into the basin, promoting the emergence of millet-based agriculture during the Peiligang culture period (8500–7000 cal yr BP). Once agricultural practices emerged, the climatic optimum after ~7550 cal yr BP likely facilitated the expansion of the Yangshao culture (7000–5000 cal yr BP) in north-central China. As agriculture intensified, pollen taxa related to human disturbance, such as Urtica, increased in abundance.

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“…Himalayan people had previously transformed their environments-primarily through deforestation and irrigation-in the service of agriculture and pastoralism, creating anthropogenic landscapes that needed to be maintained. But the landscapes these communities created were, in the main, sustainable (Storozum et al 2017), and they did not interfere with the delivery of water and fertile soils to lowland settlements.…”

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International relations and the Himalaya: connecting ecologies, cultures and geopolitics

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Australian Journal of International Affairs

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This article examines international relations (IR)'s approach to the Himalaya. We argue that the possibility of violent conflict over contested international borders is not the region's primary international challenge. Rather, slow violence inflicted by statebuilding and militarisation, intimately connected to geopolitical tensions, threaten the region's ecologies, cultures and languages. The Himalaya is home to three biodiversity hotspots and a mosaic of ethnic groups, many of whom speak threatened languages. Its ice-deposits feed most of Asia's large rivers. In recent years, India and China have pursued large-scale infrastructure development in the region, enabling greater militarisation and extraction, and a tourist rush. These threats are amplified by climate change, which is occurring in the Himalaya at twice global averages, contributing to landslides, flooding, and droughts. However, the region's complexity is not matched by IR's theorisations, which overwhelmingly focus on the possibility of violent conflict between state actors. We argue that IR's analysis of the region must go beyond a states-and-security, Delhi-Beijing-Islamabad centred approach, to look at the numerous interconnections between its geopolitics, cultures and ecologies. We suggest this can be accomplished through incorporating more interdisciplinary analysis, and through focusing on the interaction between the organisation of political authority and the region's environment.

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Anthropogenic origins of a late Holocene, basin-wide unconformity in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, the Luoyang Basin, Henan Province, China

Cited by 8 publications

References 88 publications

The collapse of the North Song dynasty and the AD 1048–1128 Yellow River floods: Geoarchaeological evidence from northern Henan Province, China

The collapse of the North Song dynasty and the AD 1048–1128 Yellow River floods: Geoarchaeological evidence from northern Henan Province, China

Early–middle Holocene ecological change and its influence on human subsistence strategies in the Luoyang Basin, north-central China

International relations and the Himalaya: connecting ecologies, cultures and geopolitics

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