A tale of two cities: isotopic evidence highlights two distinct millet-based subsistence strategies behind early urban China's Shimao and Erlitou sites

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	A tale of two cities: isotopic evidence highlights two distinct millet-based subsistence strategies behind early urban China's Shimao and Erlitou sites
	Sheng, Pengfei 1; Allen, Edward 1; Hu, Songmei 2; Sun, Zhouyong 2; Shang, Xue 3,4
	2025-05-01
发表期刊	ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES
ISSN	1866-9557
卷号	17 期号:5 页码:13
通讯作者	Sheng, Pengfei(shengpengfei@fudan.edu.cn) ; Shang, Xue(shangxue@ucas.ac.cn)
摘要	The relationship between management of agricultural / agropastoral resources and the emergence of urbanism in China remains poorly understood. We firstly integrate and contrast new and existing stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data (n = 650) from human, livestock and crop remains at Shimao and Erlitou, two major urban sites in northern China dating from the late Neolithic to early Bronze Age. We identify and discuss temporal and regional differences in subsistence management at both early urbanized regions alongside a narrative of crop-regime shifts and increasing site complexity. We illustrate how two patterns of subsistence management, strongly influenced by agro-pastoral interactions from Eurasian steppe circa. 4500 to 3700/3500 cal. yr BP resulted in dynamic trajectories of intensive and/or extensive herd and crop management and their respective long-term implications.
关键词	Stable isotope analysis Diet Millet agriculture Shimao Erlitou Ancient China
DOI	10.1007/s12520-025-02238-y
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Social Science Fund of China ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[42407596] ; [21CKG022] ; [18ZDA218]
项目资助者	National Social Science Fund of China ; National Natural Science Foundation of China
WOS研究方向	Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Geology
WOS类目	Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:001480632100001
出版者	SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/24786
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Sheng, Pengfei; Shang, Xue
作者单位	1.Fudan Univ, Inst Archaeol Sci, Dept Cultural Heritage & Museol, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China 2.Shaanxi Acad Archaeol, Xian 710000, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Archaeol & Anthropol, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sheng, Pengfei,Allen, Edward,Hu, Songmei,et al. A tale of two cities: isotopic evidence highlights two distinct millet-based subsistence strategies behind early urban China's Shimao and Erlitou sites[J]. ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES,2025,17(5):13.
APA	Sheng, Pengfei,Allen, Edward,Hu, Songmei,Sun, Zhouyong,&Shang, Xue.(2025).A tale of two cities: isotopic evidence highlights two distinct millet-based subsistence strategies behind early urban China's Shimao and Erlitou sites.ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES,17(5),13.
MLA	Sheng, Pengfei,et al."A tale of two cities: isotopic evidence highlights two distinct millet-based subsistence strategies behind early urban China's Shimao and Erlitou sites".ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES 17.5(2025):13.