Stable Isotope Analysis of Mammalian Enamel From the Early Pleistocene Site of Madigou, Nihewan Basin: Implications for Reconstructing Hominin Paleoenvironmental Adaptations in North China

doi:10.3389/feart.2021.789781

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	Stable Isotope Analysis of Mammalian Enamel From the Early Pleistocene Site of Madigou, Nihewan Basin: Implications for Reconstructing Hominin Paleoenvironmental Adaptations in North China
	Xu, Zhe 1,2,3; Pei, Shuwen 1,2; Hu, Yaowu 4; de la Torre, Ignacio 5; Ma, Dongdong 1,2
	2021-12-24
发表期刊	FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE
卷号	9 页码:10
通讯作者	Pei, Shuwen(peishuwen@ivpp.ac.cn)
摘要	The reconstruction of environmental and climatic changes in the Pleistocene is an essential contribution to our understanding of human evolutionary and behavioral adaptations. Well preserved fluvio-lacustrine sediments at Nihewan basin have yielded a rich record of Early Pleistocene Paleolithic sites and mammalian fossils which provide a unique opportunity for exploring hominin behavior and paleoecology in North China. Taxonomic studies of mammalian fossils have provided important clues to the general environmental setting and landscapes of Early Pleistocene humans in the fluvio-lacustrine basin of Nihewan, but little is known about their isotopic signatures. In this paper, mammal teeth species at the Madigou archaeological site (ca. 1.2 Ma) were selected for bulk and sequential enamel stable isotope (C, O) analysis. Results show a variety of ecological environments, including grassland and sparse forest landscapes, and distinct patterns across taxa. C-3-C-4 mixed vegetation predominated, but C-4 vegetation was also relevant at times. Madigou early humans likely experienced cold/warm or dry/wet fluctuations in this northern China basin. We hypothesize that the environmental fluctuations and diversified landscapes may have driven flexibility in various aspects of early human technological behaviors, and allowed hominins to face the environmental challenges of northern latitudes after the initial expansion from Africa into East Asia at the onset of the Middle Pleistocene Climate Transition.
关键词	stable isotopes paleoenvironmental variability Middle Pleistocene Climate Transition (MPT) human adaptations Madigou site Nihewan basin North China
DOI	10.3389/feart.2021.789781
关键词[WOS]	OXYGEN ISOTOPES ; CARBON ISOTOPES ; TOOTH ENAMEL ; EVOLUTION ; CLIMATE ; TRANSITION ; AFRICA ; RECORD ; FRACTIONATION ; COLONIZATION
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB26000000] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41872029] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41372032] ; ERC-Advanced Grant (Horizon 2020) ; BICAEHFID[832980]
项目资助者	Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; ERC-Advanced Grant (Horizon 2020) ; BICAEHFID
WOS研究方向	Geology
WOS类目	Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:000743540000001
出版者	FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/19265
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
通讯作者	Pei, Shuwen
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.CAS Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Sch Humanities, Beijing, Peoples R China 4.Fudan Univ, Dept Cultural Heritage & Museol, Shanghai, Peoples R China 5.CSIC Spanish Natl Res Council, Inst Hist, Dept Archeol, Madrid, Spain
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Xu, Zhe,Pei, Shuwen,Hu, Yaowu,et al. Stable Isotope Analysis of Mammalian Enamel From the Early Pleistocene Site of Madigou, Nihewan Basin: Implications for Reconstructing Hominin Paleoenvironmental Adaptations in North China[J]. FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE,2021,9:10.
APA	Xu, Zhe,Pei, Shuwen,Hu, Yaowu,de la Torre, Ignacio,&Ma, Dongdong.(2021).Stable Isotope Analysis of Mammalian Enamel From the Early Pleistocene Site of Madigou, Nihewan Basin: Implications for Reconstructing Hominin Paleoenvironmental Adaptations in North China.FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE,9,10.
MLA	Xu, Zhe,et al."Stable Isotope Analysis of Mammalian Enamel From the Early Pleistocene Site of Madigou, Nihewan Basin: Implications for Reconstructing Hominin Paleoenvironmental Adaptations in North China".FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE 9(2021):10.