Climate change and hominin behavioral adaptations during the Marine Isotope Stage 5 to 4 transition: a case study from Donggou site, Nihewan Basin, North China

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109714

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	Climate change and hominin behavioral adaptations during the Marine Isotope Stage 5 to 4 transition: a case study from Donggou site, Nihewan Basin, North China
	Xu, Jingyue 1,2,3; Niu, Dongwei 4,5; Zhang, Shengrui 6; Guo, Yujie 4,5; Li, Xiaoli 7; Pei, Shuwen 1,2
	2026-02-01
发表期刊	QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
ISSN	0277-3791
卷号	373 页码:13
通讯作者	Niu, Dongwei(ndw1986@163.com) ; Pei, Shuwen(peishuwen@ivpp.ac.cn)
摘要	The transition from Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5 to MIS 4 was a major climatic shift that affected hominin biological and cultural evolution in eastern Eurasia. Marked by abrupt climatic shifts, this stage is characterized by notable diversification in hominin behavior. Technological and behavioral changes co-occurred with fluctuating ecological regimes, coinciding with the transition of millennial-scale climate events at the terminus of MIS 5, forcing hominins to develop new strategies to exploit their environment. Temporal multi-proxy-based climate and environmental reconstructions from the Donggou site in the Nihewan Basin of North China offer a high-resolution archive of climatic variation for this period, providing insights into its impact on hominin adaptive strategies. Luminescence dating indicates that the Donggou site was formed between 126.1 and 70.1 ka, and hominins occupied the site from 76 to 74ka. Our results suggest that the regional climate was colder and drier than today and underwent frequent climatic fluctuations that drove environmental and landscape changes. The Donggou hominins persisted in the initial arid phase. They continued to occupy the river floodplain landscape during the mild and moist Dansgaard-Oeschger event of late MIS 5a, before the climate deterioration of the MIS 4 episode. The Donggou archaeological data revealed flexible adaptive strategies, including the effective use of high-quality lithic raw materials, an increase in retouched tools, systematic exploitation of ungulates, and the use of fire. Other sites in the region exhibited different adaptive strategies, collectively indicating hominin behavioral diversification during this period. We suggest that climate oscillation during the MIS 5-4 transition may have promoted hominins to adjust their strategies and develop solutions to challenging environments, leading to increased behavioral flexibility and capabilities when facing landscape turnover from lakeshore to river floodplain habitats after the Nihewan Old Lake dies out.
关键词	Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5 to 4 transition Climate and environmental variations Hominin adaptation Donggou site Nihewan Basin North China
DOI	10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109714
关键词[WOS]	EARLY-MODERN HUMANS ; EAST-ASIAN MONSOON ; MILLENNIAL-SCALE ; PALEOLITHIC SITE ; CARBON ISOTOPES ; TIANYUAN CAVE ; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE ; RESEARCH PROGRESS ; PLANT ABUNDANCE ; LOESS PLATEAU
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Social Science Foundation of China[21BKG034]###3602
项目资助者	National Social Science Foundation of China
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology
WOS类目	Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:001635158400001
出版者	PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/25237
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Niu, Dongwei; Pei, Shuwen
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.SACH, Key Sci Res Base Paleolith Human Evolut & Paleogen, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 4.Hebei Normal Univ, Coll Hist & Culture, Shijiazhuang 050024, Hebei, Peoples R China 5.Hebei Normal Univ, Hebei Key Lab East Asian Human Origin & Civilizat, Shijiazhuang 050024, Peoples R China 6.Hebei Normal Univ, Sch Geog Sci, Shijiazhuang 050024, Hebei, Peoples R China 7.Natl Nat Hist Museum China, Beijing 100050, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Xu, Jingyue,Niu, Dongwei,Zhang, Shengrui,et al. Climate change and hominin behavioral adaptations during the Marine Isotope Stage 5 to 4 transition: a case study from Donggou site, Nihewan Basin, North China[J]. QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS,2026,373:13.
APA	Xu, Jingyue,Niu, Dongwei,Zhang, Shengrui,Guo, Yujie,Li, Xiaoli,&Pei, Shuwen.(2026).Climate change and hominin behavioral adaptations during the Marine Isotope Stage 5 to 4 transition: a case study from Donggou site, Nihewan Basin, North China.QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS,373,13.
MLA	Xu, Jingyue,et al."Climate change and hominin behavioral adaptations during the Marine Isotope Stage 5 to 4 transition: a case study from Donggou site, Nihewan Basin, North China".QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS 373(2026):13.