Archaeomagnetic evidence for heating history of the Xiaonanshan archaeological site in Heilongjiang Province, northeastern China

doi:10.6038/cjg2023R0046

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	Archaeomagnetic evidence for heating history of the Xiaonanshan archaeological site in Heilongjiang Province, northeastern China
	Zeng ZhiPeng 1,2; Li YouQian 3; Yang ShiXia 4; Cai ShuHui 1,2
	2024-02-01
发表期刊	CHINESE JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS-CHINESE EDITION
ISSN	0001-5733
卷号	67 期号:2 页码:600-614
通讯作者	Cai ShuHui(caishuhui@mail.iggcas.ac.cn)
摘要	Archaeomagnetic techniques provide important qualitative and quantitative analysis methods for heating history of archaeological sites. The Xiaonanshan site, located at northeastern Heilongjiang Province, is one of the most important prehistoric sites in northeast China. The earliest discovered human activity relics on this site trace back to the Late Pleistocene. The site unearthed series of remains and relics of human activity since 16 ka, including many stone artifacts, some potteries, and a few remains of suspected fire use related to human lifestyles. In this study, we collected soil samples from the suspected fire areas and surround area, and conducted a series of rock magnetic experiments, including low-frequency magnetic susceptibility ( chi(LF) ) step-wise variation of susceptibility versus temperature (chi-T), hysteresis loop, isothermal remanent magnetization (IRM) acquisition curves, back field demagnetization curves (BFD) and first order reversal curve (FORC) diagrams, to provide quantitative data for the heating history, e. g., heating temperature and heating range, of the site. The results indicate that the two suspected fire areas (ZB, ZC) show higher chi(LF), higher saturation IRM, stronger signal of FORC, and better thermal stability between 400 600 degrees C, while the suspected fire area ZA, with surface soil removed during excavation, and surrounding area show lower chi(LF), lower saturation IRM, weaker signal of FORC, and gradually thermal alteration during the heating process indicated by chi -T curves. The rock magnetic results support the two suspected fire areas ZB and ZC were burnt, while ZA and surrounding areas were probably not heated, at least not to high temperatures as ZB and ZC. The thermal stability between 400 similar to 600 C and obviously thermal transformation at 700 degrees C of the chi-T curves indicate that the historical heating temperatures of firing areas are about 600 similar to 700 degrees C.
DOI	10.6038/cjg2023R0046
关键词[WOS]	FIRE ; SUSCEPTIBILITY ; MAGNETIZATION ; TEMPERATURE ; MAGNETISM ; LOESS ; PHASE ; ASH
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Geochemistry & Geophysics
WOS类目	Geochemistry & Geophysics
WOS记录号	WOS:001184348600014
出版者	SCIENCE PRESS
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/23510
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Cai ShuHui
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, State Key Lab Lithospher Evolut, Inst Geol & Geophys, Beijing 10029, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Earth & Planetary Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 3.Heilongjiang Prov Inst Cultural Rel & Archaeol, Harbin 150008, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Inst Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zeng ZhiPeng,Li YouQian,Yang ShiXia,et al. Archaeomagnetic evidence for heating history of the Xiaonanshan archaeological site in Heilongjiang Province, northeastern China[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS-CHINESE EDITION,2024,67(2):600-614.
APA	Zeng ZhiPeng,Li YouQian,Yang ShiXia,&Cai ShuHui.(2024).Archaeomagnetic evidence for heating history of the Xiaonanshan archaeological site in Heilongjiang Province, northeastern China.CHINESE JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS-CHINESE EDITION,67(2),600-614.
MLA	Zeng ZhiPeng,et al."Archaeomagnetic evidence for heating history of the Xiaonanshan archaeological site in Heilongjiang Province, northeastern China".CHINESE JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS-CHINESE EDITION 67.2(2024):600-614.