The Impact of Middle to Late Holocene Environmental Changes on Human Activities in the Qujialing Region, Jingshan, Hubei Province
摘要
The Qujialing site is a representative Neolithic archaeological site on the east of lower reaches of Hanjiang River, 130 km from the Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. Synthetic analyses of grain-size, Rb/Sr ratio, magnetic susceptibility and pollen of sedimentary samples from Qujialing profile near the Qujialing site revealed the depositional process and characteristics, and climate changes since 5.2 ka B.P. in this area. Both of the climate and hydrological changes may have been the controlling factors of the collapse of the late Neolithic Culture in the Qujialing region.