Millet manuring as a driving force for the Late Neolithic agricultural expansion of north China

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	Millet manuring as a driving force for the Late Neolithic agricultural expansion of north China
	Wang, Xin 1,2; Fuller, Benjamin T.2,3; Zhang, Pengcheng 4; Hu, Songmei 4; Hu, Yaowu 1,2; Shang, Xue 1,2
	2018-04-03
发表期刊	SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
ISSN	2045-2322
卷号	8
文章类型	Article
摘要	Research in to the nature of Neolithic agriculture in China is often focused on topics such as the domestication and spread of cereal crops and the reconstruction of human and animal diets in the past. Field management practices, such as organic manuring, have not been systematically investigated in Chinese archaeology. Here we present an isotopic dataset for archaeological foxtail millet (Setaria italica) and common millet (Panicum miliaceum) grains as well as associated faunal remains (both domesticated and wild) from seven sites in the Baishui Valley of north China, in order to find direct evidence of organic manuring during the Late Neolithic period. The elevated nitrogen isotope values of the millet grains (5500-3500 cal BP) in comparison with the estimated local vegetation indicates that millets were organically manured by animal dung, mostly likely originating from domestic pigs. Considering the low nitrogen contents of loess soils and their unsuitability for intensive cultivation, this organic manuring by animal dung would have played a key role in maintaining soil productivity and crop yield, which was necessary to support the demands of agriculture and cultural expansion during the Late Neolithic on the Loess Plateau of China.
WOS标题词	Science & Technology
DOI	10.1038/s41598-018-23315-4
关键词[WOS]	NITROGEN ISOTOPE RATIOS ; WEI RIVER VALLEY ; STABLE-ISOTOPE ; LOESS PLATEAU ; ARCHAEOBOTANICAL REMAINS ; MANAGEMENT-PRACTICES ; FOXTAIL MILLET ; CARBON ; RECONSTRUCTION ; IMPACT
收录类别	SCI ; SSCI
语种	英语
项目资助者	National Natural Science Foundation of China(41471167 ; National Fundamental Research Project(2015CB953803) ; National Natural Science Foundation of China Research Fund for International Young Scientists(41550110224) ; Chinese Academy of Sciences International Visiting Scholar Fellowship(2016VBC002) ; National Scholarship Fund of China (CSC)(201504910101) ; 41102227 ; 41373018 ; 41773008)
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000429000200016
出版者	NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/8764
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Hu, Yaowu; 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, Dept Archaeol & Anthropol, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 3.Aarhus Univ, Sch Culture & Soc, Dept Archaeol & Heritage Studies, Moesgard Alle 20, DK-8270 Hojbjerg, Denmark 4.Shaanxi Prov Inst Archaeol, Xian 710043, Shaanxi, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Xin,Fuller, Benjamin T.,Zhang, Pengcheng,et al. Millet manuring as a driving force for the Late Neolithic agricultural expansion of north China[J]. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,2018,8.
APA	Wang, Xin,Fuller, Benjamin T.,Zhang, Pengcheng,Hu, Songmei,Hu, Yaowu,&Shang, Xue.(2018).Millet manuring as a driving force for the Late Neolithic agricultural expansion of north China.SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,8.
MLA	Wang, Xin,et al."Millet manuring as a driving force for the Late Neolithic agricultural expansion of north China".SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 8(2018).