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| Consistent C-3 plant habitat of hominins during 400-300 ka at the Longyadong Cave site (Luonan Basin, central China) revealed by stable carbon isotope analyses of loess deposits | |
| Zhang, Hongyan1; Lu, Huayu1; Wang, Shejiang2; Zhang, Enlou4; Cosgrove, Richard3; Zhang, Wenchao1; Li, Lu1 | |
| 2017-07-01 | |
| 发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
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| 卷号 | 108页码:1-10 |
| 文章类型 | Article |
| 摘要 | The proportions of woody and grassland taxa in terrestrial ecosystems played an important role in the origin and evolution of early Palaeolithic hominins. However the influence of ecosystem changes on hominin behavior and adaptations in Asia has not been studied in detail. Hominins have exploited the Luonan Basin in the Eastern Qinling Mountains, central China, since the early Paleolithic. Dated sites, consisting of alternating loess and soil deposits with in situ artefacts, are common in the region, and provide a detailed record of Early to Middle Pleistocene hominin environments. Here, we present the results of measurements of the stable carbon isotopic composition of soil organic matter (delta C-13(som)) in the loess-paleosol sequences from the Longyadong Cave site. Our analyses of delta C-13(som) show that for at least 400 ka the Longyadong Cave site and its surroundings were dominated by C-3 woody plants, whereas the nearby Liuwan site was dominated by C-4 and C-3 mixed grassland or woody grassland vegetation. These findings demonstrate that between 400 and 300 ka in the Luonan Basin, hominins occupied a habitat consisting of a mosaic of grassland and woodland/forest. Although the vegetation of the region changed in response to the glacial interglacial climatic cycles, patches of woody vegetation in landscapes such as at Longyadong Cave site persisted continuously. Such environments seem to be have been favored by hominins living in the Luonan Basin, possibly because they provided a diverse range of food resources during both glacial and interglacial intervals of the Middle Pleistocene, when most of northern China was experiencing an increasing trend of drying and cooling and steppe environments were expanding. Thus, the Luonan Basin would have served as a refugium for hominin occupation in China during the Middle Pleistocene. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
| 关键词 | Middle Pleistocene Hominin Behavior Vegetation Paleolithic C-3 And C-4 Plants East Qinling Region |
| WOS标题词 | Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.01.011 |
| 关键词[WOS] | SOIL ORGANIC-MATTER ; NIHEWAN BASIN ; HUMAN-EVOLUTION ; NORTHEAST ASIA ; HOMO-ERECTUS ; AUSTRALOPITHECUS-AFRICANUS ; PALEOLITHIC SITE ; SOUTHEAST-ASIA ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; VEGETATION |
| 收录类别 | SCI ; SSCI |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 项目资助者 | National Natural Science Foundation of China(41401220 ; Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2016YFA0600503) ; Australian Research Council(DP0665250) ; 41472138 ; 41472026) |
| WOS研究方向 | Anthropology ; Evolutionary Biology |
| WOS类目 | Anthropology ; Evolutionary Biology |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000404708200001 |
| 引用统计 | |
| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/7716 |
| 专题 | 中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后） |
| 作者单位 | 1.Nanjing Univ, Sch Geog & Oceanog Sci, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Joint Lab Human Evolut & Archaeometry, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 3.La Trobe Univ, Archaeol Program, Sch Hist & European Studies, Bundoora, Vic 3086, Australia 4.Chinese Acad Sci, State Key Lab Lake Sci & Environm, Nanjing Inst Geog & Limnol, Nanjing 210008, Jiangsu, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Zhang, Hongyan,Lu, Huayu,Wang, Shejiang,et al. Consistent C-3 plant habitat of hominins during 400-300 ka at the Longyadong Cave site (Luonan Basin, central China) revealed by stable carbon isotope analyses of loess deposits[J]. JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION,2017,108:1-10. |
| APA | Zhang, Hongyan.,Lu, Huayu.,Wang, Shejiang.,Zhang, Enlou.,Cosgrove, Richard.,...&Li, Lu.(2017).Consistent C-3 plant habitat of hominins during 400-300 ka at the Longyadong Cave site (Luonan Basin, central China) revealed by stable carbon isotope analyses of loess deposits.JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION,108,1-10. |
| MLA | Zhang, Hongyan,et al."Consistent C-3 plant habitat of hominins during 400-300 ka at the Longyadong Cave site (Luonan Basin, central China) revealed by stable carbon isotope analyses of loess deposits".JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION 108(2017):1-10. |
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