Climatic Aridity and the Relocations of the Zhou Culture in the Southern Loess Plateau of China

Huang, Chun Chang; Zhao, Shichao; Pang, Jiangli; Zhou, Qunying; Chen, Shue; Li, Pinghua; Mao, Longjiang; Deng, Min

doi:10.1023/b:clim.0000004550.82862.72

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“…3100 a BP, an important event in China's Bronze Age, i.e. marking the demise of the mighty Shang dynasty (1600-1046) with a variety of severe natural disasters, famine, plague, and social upheavals in relation to climatic aridity (Huang et al, 2003). This pedo-stratigraphic demarcation has therefore often been used as an indicator of an abrupt shift of the monsoonal climate, from the mid-Holocene Climatic Optimum to the dry conditions of the late Holocene (Peng et al, 2005;Huang et al, 2003, Huang et al, 2009, Huang et al, 2012a.…”

Section: Extraordinary Floods In Relation To Global Climatic Eventsmentioning

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“…marking the demise of the mighty Shang dynasty (1600-1046) with a variety of severe natural disasters, famine, plague, and social upheavals in relation to climatic aridity (Huang et al, 2003). This pedo-stratigraphic demarcation has therefore often been used as an indicator of an abrupt shift of the monsoonal climate, from the mid-Holocene Climatic Optimum to the dry conditions of the late Holocene (Peng et al, 2005;Huang et al, 2003, Huang et al, 2009, Huang et al, 2012a. A variety of palaeoclimate archives of Holocene climatic change in different regions, such as the oxygen isotope sequence from Dongge Cave in southern China , chemical signals and sodium (Na + ) ion proxy in the GISP2 ice-cores from Greenland ice cap (O'Brien et al, 1995;Mayewski et al, 1997;Meeker and Mayewski, 2002), and ice rafting events resulting from climatic cooling in North Atlantic deep-sea cores (Bond et al, 2001), have defined the prominent 3200-2800 a BP event as an abrupt or rapid climatic event.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Late Pleistocene and Holocene palaeoflood events recorded by slackwater deposits in the upper Hanjiang River valley, China

Liu

Huang

Pang

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Journal of Hydrology

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Section: Extraordinary Floods In Relation To Global Climatic Eventsmentioning

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Late Pleistocene and Holocene palaeoflood events recorded by slackwater deposits in the upper Hanjiang River valley, China

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Pang

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Journal of Hydrology

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“…In extreme cases, a drought disaster can cause flourishing societies and highly developed civilizations to collapse abruptly (Bryson and Swain, 1981;Fang, 1999;deMenocal, 2001;Weiss and Bradley, 2001;Huang et al, 2003). Knowledge of past drought disasters could aid in the evaluation of potential regional hazards in the future and facilitate the assessment of the links between regional and worldwide droughts (Wilhite, 2000).…”

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The 1920S Drought Recorded by Tree Rings and Historical Documents in the Semi-Arid and Arid Areas of Northern China

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Abstract. Using a network of tree-ring data, we show that there had been significant growth decline in the 1920s and early 1930s throughout a wide area of northern China. This growth depression is indicative of a severe and sustained drought in the 1920s and early 1930s, which was then confirmed with a variety of historical and instrumental records including hydrological, meteorological, and documentary evidence. The 1920s drought had a devastating effect not only on agricultural productivity, hydrological resources and society in the affected areas, but also on natural vegetation, as inferred from the tree-ring network and historical records. This research offers a picture of the drought calamity during the 1920s and early 1930s in northern China, and demonstrates the potential to identify spatial anomalies of large-scale drought using tree-ring networks in the semi-arid and arid areas of northern China.

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“…The Western Zhou period (1046 BC-771 BC) in China is characterized by forays into neighboring communities, infighting amongst royals, and peasant uprisings. Although socio-economic issues partly explain the dissatisfaction amongst groups in Zhou society, and the impetus for migration, climate aridity around 1150 BC also pushed people out of former political and economic centers [155]. Written records of the time also corroborate the relocation of peoples.…”

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Nature–Culture Relations: Early Globalization, Climate Changes, and System Crisis

Chew

Sarabia

2016

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Globalization has been on everyone's lips in light of the contemporary conditions. It has been viewed mostly as a stage reached as a result of long-term societal changes over the course of world history. For us, globalization has been an ongoing process for at least the last 5000 years. Little attention has been paid to the socioeconomic and natural processes that led to the current transformation. With the exception of historical sociologists, there is less interest in examining the long-term past as it is often assumed that the past has nothing to teach us, and it is the future that we have to turn our intellectual gaze. This paper will argue the opposite. We believe a long-term tracing of the socioeconomic and political processes of the making of the modern world will allow us to have a more incisive understanding of the current trajectory of world development and transformations. To plead our case, we outline the emergence of the first Eurasian World Economy linking seven regions (Europe, the Arabian Peninsula, East Africa, the Persian Gulf, Central Asia, South Asia, Ceylon, Southeast Asia, and China) of the world, with the exception of the Americas, starting as early as 200 BC, and the sequence of structural crises and transformations (trading networks and commodities) that has circumscribed the structures and trends of the current global system. Such consideration in our view is limited if we do not also include the relations between social systems and Nature, and the rhythms of the climate. For the latter, an awareness of the natural rhythms of the climate as well as human induced changes or climate forcing have triggered system-wide level collapses during certain early historical periods.

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Climatic Aridity and the Relocations of the Zhou Culture in the Southern Loess Plateau of China

Cited by 75 publications

References 9 publications

Late Pleistocene and Holocene palaeoflood events recorded by slackwater deposits in the upper Hanjiang River valley, China

Late Pleistocene and Holocene palaeoflood events recorded by slackwater deposits in the upper Hanjiang River valley, China

The 1920S Drought Recorded by Tree Rings and Historical Documents in the Semi-Arid and Arid Areas of Northern China

Nature–Culture Relations: Early Globalization, Climate Changes, and System Crisis

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