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DOI10.1016/j.scib.2020.10.011
Megadrought and cultural exchange along the proto-silk road
Tan, Liangcheng; Dong, Guanghui; An, Zhisheng; Edwards, R. Lawrence; Li, Haiming; Li, Dong; Spengler, Robert; Cai, Yanjun; Cheng, Hai; Lan, Jianghu; Orozbaev, Rustam; Liu, Ruiliang; Chen, Jianhui; Xu, Hai; Chen, Fahu
通讯作者Tan, LC (通讯作者)
发表日期2021
ISSN2095-9273
EISSN2095-9281
起始页码603
结束页码611
卷号66期号:6
英文摘要Arid Central Asia (ACA), with its diverse landscapes of high mountains, oases, and deserts, hosted the central routes of the Silk Roads that linked trade centers from East Asia to the eastern Mediterranean. Ecological pockets and ecoclines in ACA are largely determined by local precipitation. However, little research has gone into the effects of hydroclimatic changes on trans-Eurasian cultural exchange. Here, we reconstruct precipitation changes in ACA, covering the mid-late Holocene with a U-Th dated, similar to 3 a resolution, multi-proxy time series of replicated stalagmites from the southeastern Fergana Valley, Kyrgyzstan. Our data reveal a 640-a megadrought between 5820 and 5180 a BP, which likely impacted cultural development in ACA and impeded the expansion of cultural traits along oasis routes. Instead, it may have diverted the earliest transcontinental exchange along the Eurasian steppe during the 5th millennium BP. With gradually increasing precipitation after the megadrought, settlement of peoples in the oases and river valleys may have facilitated the opening of the oasis routes, ''prehistoric Silk Roads, of trans-Eurasian exchange. By the 4th millennium BP, this process may have reshaped cultures across the two continents, laying the foundation for the organized Silk Roads. (C) 2020 Science China Press. Published by Elsevier B.V. and Science China Press.
关键词NORTH-ATLANTIC CLIMATEARID CENTRAL-ASIASTABLE-ISOTOPEMOISTURE CHANGESTRACE-ELEMENTSHOLOCENESPELEOTHEMSWESTERLIESRECORDSBRONZE
英文关键词Megadrought; Trans-Eurasian exchange; Silk Roads; Arid Central Asia; Mid-Holocene
语种英语
WOS研究方向Science & Technology - Other Topics
WOS类目Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS记录号WOS:000632038300009
来源期刊SCIENCE BULLETIN
来源机构中国科学院青藏高原研究所
文献类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/260541
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Tan, Liangcheng,Dong, Guanghui,An, Zhisheng,et al. Megadrought and cultural exchange along the proto-silk road[J]. 中国科学院青藏高原研究所,2021,66(6).
APA Tan, Liangcheng.,Dong, Guanghui.,An, Zhisheng.,Edwards, R. Lawrence.,Li, Haiming.,...&Chen, Fahu.(2021).Megadrought and cultural exchange along the proto-silk road.SCIENCE BULLETIN,66(6).
MLA Tan, Liangcheng,et al."Megadrought and cultural exchange along the proto-silk road".SCIENCE BULLETIN 66.6(2021).
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