The Progress in the Study of Environmental Archaeology during the Holocene in Three Gorges Reservoir Area of the Yangtze River

• 责任者：Zhu Cheng (School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences ; Nanjing University ; Nanjing 210093 ; China) ; Ma Chunmei
• 刊名：Earth Science Frontiers
• 出版年：2010
• 卷期：17(3)
• 关键词：全新世 ; Holocene ; 考古学 ; archaeology ; 长江三峡 ; Yangtze River Valley
• 页码：p.222-232
• 图表：1 illus., 21 refs.
• 分类号：1400
• issnNo：ISSN1005-2321
• isbnNo：CN11-3370/P

In this study, the authors made use of the most valuable chance of salvage excavation of the cultural relics in the Three Gorges Project to do environmental archaeology research in two typical archaeological sites: the Zhongba Site in Zhongxian County and the Yuxi Site in Fengdu County of Chongqing City, and one natural peat profile, the Dajiuhu peat of Shennongjia Mountain. Chronology, sedimentology, component and morphology of heavy minerals, micromorphology of zircon, geochemistry and environmental magnetics were used to distinguish the paleoflood deposits in archaeological sites. The study of the temporal-spatial distribution of the archaeological sites shows that the 677 archaeological sites from the Paleolithic Age to the Tang and Song Dynasties in the Three Gorges reservoir of Chongqing area distributed more and more densely from west to east and from high land to low land. Most of the sites were distributed along the river and aggregated at the confluence.