Enhancing sustainability in early millet agriculture: Manuring practices in the Yellow River Valley

doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113283

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	Enhancing sustainability in early millet agriculture: Manuring practices in the Yellow River Valley
	Ouyang, Huiyong 1,2; Shang, Xue 2
	2025-12-01
发表期刊	PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
ISSN	0031-0182
卷号	679 页码:13
通讯作者	Shang, Xue(shangxue@ucas.ac.cn)
摘要	The implementation of various agricultural strategies, including manuring, has long been considered a key factor in supporting the complexity of early societies worldwide. The Yellow River valley in China is recognized as the cradle of millet agriculture and civilization state. However, systematic research on manuring practices within spatiotemporal archaeological contexts in early millet agriculture within this region remains scarce. This paper synthesizes previously published isotopic data from foxtail and broomcorn millet at 33 archaeological sites spanning the late Neolithic to the Bronze Age, aiming to clarify the characteristics of early millet manuring management and its role in the sustainable development of ancient China. Nitrogen isotope results, together with evidence from soil nutrients, livestock husbandry, and archaeobotanical findings, suggest that manuring had been widely adopted in the dryland agriculture of the Yellow River valley since the late Neolithic period. Faced with increasing population pressures and environmental limitations, farmers in the Yellow River valley maintained manuring practices for farmland while expanding cultivated areas, though the intensity exhibited significant spatiotemporal variations. The refinement of agricultural strategies not only promoted the sustainable development and regional expansion of agricultural production but also played a crucial role in shaping the enduring features and trajectory of Chinese civilization.
关键词	Nitrogen stable isotopes Manuring practices Early millet farming Yellow River valley
DOI	10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113283
关键词[WOS]	NITROGEN ISOTOPE RATIOS ; BRONZE-AGE ; LAND-USE ; CHINA ; CEREALS ; ARIDITY ; EUROPE ; REGION ; VALUES ; SITES
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Social Science Fund of China[21BKG040] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[42277441] ; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
项目资助者	National Social Science Fund of China ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology ; Paleontology
WOS类目	Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary ; Paleontology
WOS记录号	WOS:001582788000002
出版者	ELSEVIER
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/24912
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Shang, Xue
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Humanities, Dept Archaeol & Anthropol, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ouyang, Huiyong,Shang, Xue. Enhancing sustainability in early millet agriculture: Manuring practices in the Yellow River Valley[J]. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY,2025,679:13.
APA	Ouyang, Huiyong,&Shang, Xue.(2025).Enhancing sustainability in early millet agriculture: Manuring practices in the Yellow River Valley.PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY,679,13.
MLA	Ouyang, Huiyong,et al."Enhancing sustainability in early millet agriculture: Manuring practices in the Yellow River Valley".PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY 679(2025):13.