Collapse of the Liangzhu and other Neolithic cultures in the lower Yangtze region in response to climate change

New archaeobotanical evidence reveals synchronous rice domestication 7600 years ago on south Hangzhou Bay coast, eastern China

(2021) Lanjie Deng et al.   Anthropocene

Holocene variability of East Asian summer monsoon as viewed from the speleothem δ18O records in central China

(2021) Yanjun Cai et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

New insights towards an integrated understanding of NE Asian monsoon during mid to late Holocene

(2021) Jingyao Zhao et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Multi-proxy evidence of environmental change related to collapse of the Liangzhu Culture in the Yangtze Delta, China

(2021) Keyang He et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Typhoon storm surge in the southeast Chinese mainland modulated by ENSO

(2021) Xingru Feng et al.   Scientific Reports

Holocene geomorphological evolution and the Neolithic occupation in South Hangzhou Bay, China

(2021) Yan Liu et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

A data-model comparison pinpoints Holocene spatiotemporal pattern of East Asian summer monsoon

(2021) Haiwei Zhang et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

A stalagmite δ18O record from Jinfo Cave, southern China reveals early-mid holocene variations in the East Asian Summer Monsoon

(2020) Xunlin Yang et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Inter-relationship and environmental significance of stalagmite δ13C and δ18O records from Zhenzhu Cave, north China, over the last 130 ka

(2020) Yunxia Li et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A multimillennial climatic context for the megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar and Mascarene Islands

(2020) Hanying Li et al.   Science Advances

Landscape evolution in the Liangzhu area since the early Holocene: A comprehensive sedimentological approach

(2020) Guangjiu Ling et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Climate as a factor for Neolithic cultural collapses approximately 4000 years BP in China

(2019) Qianli Sun et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Chinese stalagmite paleoclimate researches: A review and perspective

(2019) Hai Cheng et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Variability of East Asian summer monsoon precipitation during the Holocene and possible forcing mechanisms

(2018) Fuzhi Lu et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Centennial- to decadal-scale monsoon precipitation variations in the upper Hanjiang River region, China over the past 6650 years

(2018) Liangcheng Tan et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Timing and duration of the East Asian summer monsoon maximum during the Holocene based on stalagmite data from North China

(2018) Na Zhang et al.   HOLOCENE

Foraminiferal evidence for Holocene environmental transitions in the Yaojiang Valley, south Hangzhou Bay, eastern China, and its significance for Neolithic occupations

(2018) Bin Dai et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Middle Holocene marine flooding and human response in the south Yangtze coastal plain, East China

(2018) Zhanghua Wang et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Great flood in the middle-lower Yellow River reaches at 4000 a BP inferred from accurately-dated stalagmite records

(2018) Liangcheng Tan et al.   Science Bulletin

A 200-year annually laminated stalagmite record of precipitation seasonality in southeastern China and its linkages to ENSO and PDO

(2018) Haiwei Zhang et al.   Scientific Reports

Extraordinary cold episodes during the mid-Holocene in the Yangtze delta: Interruption of the earliest rice cultivating civilization

(2018) Hiroto Kajita et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Holocene ENSO-related cyclic storms recorded by magnetic minerals in speleothems of central China

(2017) Zongmin Zhu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Earliest hydraulic enterprise in China, 5,100 years ago

(2017) Bin Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mid-Holocene palaeoflood events recorded at the Zhongqiao Neolithic cultural site in the Jianghan Plain, middle Yangtze River Valley, China

(2017) Li Wu et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Spatial and temporal distribution of Neolithic sites in coastal China: Sea level changes, geomorphic evolution and human adaption

(2017) HongBo Zheng et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Unraveling El Niño's impact on the East Asian Monsoon and Yangtze River summer flooding

(2016) Wenjun Zhang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Recent Changes in ENSO Teleconnection over the Western Pacific Impacts the Eastern China Precipitation Dipole

(2016) Dachao Jin et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations

(2016) Hai Cheng et al.   NATURE

Contribution of ENSO variability to the East Asian summer monsoon in the late Holocene

(2016) Kan Zhao et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Potential utility of tree ring δ18O series for reconstructing precipitation records from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, southeast China

(2016) Chenxi Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Large variations of δ13C values in stalagmites from southeastern China during historical times: implications for anthropogenic deforestation

(2015) Haiwei Zhang et al.   BOREAS

Reconciliation of hydroclimate sequences from the Chinese Loess Plateau and low-latitude East Asian Summer Monsoon regions over the past 14,500years

(2015) Jinguo Dong et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

A 15,400-year record of climate variation from a subalpine lacustrine sedimentary sequence in the western Nanling Mountains in South China

(2015) Wei Zhong et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Middle Holocene coastal environment and the rise of the Liangzhu City complex on the Yangtze delta, China

(2015) Yan Liu et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation

(2015) Fahu Chen et al.   Scientific Reports

Rising waters: New geoarchaeological evidence of inundation and early agriculture from former settlement sites on the southern Yangtze Delta, China

(2014) Tengwen Long et al.   HOLOCENE

Climatic and palaeoecological changes during the mid- to Late Holocene transition in eastern China: high-resolution pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analysis at Pingwang, Yangtze coastal lowlands

(2014) James B. Innes et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Improvements in 230Th dating, 230Th and 234U half-life values, and U–Th isotopic measurements by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

(2013) Hai Cheng et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Concordant monsoon-driven postglacial hydrological changes in peat and stalagmite records and their impacts on prehistoric cultures in central China

(2013) Shucheng Xie et al.   GEOLOGY

Holocene paleofloods related to climatic events in the upper reaches of the Hanjiang River valley, middle Yangtze River basin, China

(2013) Yuzhu Zhang et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Mid-Holocene coastal hydrology and salinity changes in the east Taihu area of the lower Yangtze wetlands, China

(2011) Yongqiang Zong et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Extraordinary floods related to the climatic event at 4200 a BP on the Qishuihe River, middle reaches of the Yellow River, China

(2011) Chun Chang Huang et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Long-term performance of the Gasbench isotope ratio mass spectrometry system for the stable isotope analysis of carbonate microsamples

(2011) Christoph Spötl   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

The variation of summer monsoon precipitation in central China since the last deglaciation

(2010) Yanjun Cai et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A high-resolution stalagmite record of the Holocene East Asian monsoon from Mt Shennongjia, central China

(2010) Jinguo Dong et al.   HOLOCENE

Extraordinary Floods of 4100−4000a BP recorded at the Late Neolithic Ruins in the Jinghe River Gorges, Middle Reach of the Yellow River, China

(2010) Chun Chang Huang et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The Domestication Process and Domestication Rate in Rice: Spikelet Bases from the Lower Yangtze

(2009) D. Q Fuller et al.   SCIENCE

Quantification of Holocene Asian monsoon rainfall from spatially separated cave records

(2007) Chaoyong Hu et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS