Dynamic Interaction Between Deforestation and Rice Cultivation During the Holocene in the Lower Yangtze River, China

Intensive acorn processing in the early Holocene of southern China

(2021) Jiajing Wang et al.   HOLOCENE

Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years

(2021) Ondřej Mottl et al.   SCIENCE

Anthropogenic impacts on Late Holocene land-cover change and floristic biodiversity loss in tropical southeastern Asia

(2021) Zhuo Zheng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Role of dynamic environmental change in sustaining the protracted process of rice domestication in the lower Yangtze River

(2020) Keyang He et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

THE INTCAL20 NORTHERN HEMISPHERE RADIOCARBON AGE CALIBRATION CURVE (0–55 CAL kBP)

(2020) Paula J Reimer et al.   RADIOCARBON

Abundance and morphology of charcoal in sediments provide no evidence of massive slash-and-burn agriculture during the Neolithic Kuahuqiao culture, China

(2020) YuanFeng Hu et al.   PLoS One

Mid- to late Holocene vegetation change recorded at a Neolithic site in the Yangtze coastal plain, East China

(2019) Liang Tang et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analyses of Upper Holocene sediments from Dianshan, Yangtze coastal lowlands, China: Hydrology, vegetation history and human activity

(2019) James B. Innes et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

(2019) Lucas Stephens et al.   SCIENCE

Cultural response to Middle Holocene sea‐level fluctuations in eastern China: a multi‐proxy approach

(2019) Ke‐Yang He et al.   BOREAS

Middle-Holocene sea-level fluctuations interrupted the developing Hemudu culture in the lower Yangtze River, China

(2018) Keyang He et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Europe’s lost forests: a pollen-based synthesis for the last 11,000 years

(2018) N. Roberts et al.   Scientific Reports

Anthropogenic modification of vegetated landscapes in southern China from 6,000 years ago

(2018) Zhongjing Cheng et al.   Nature Geoscience

Holocene climate change in the western part of Taihu Lake region, East China

(2017) Fulong Yao et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Dating rice remains through phytolith carbon-14 study reveals domestication at the beginning of the Holocene

(2017) Xinxin Zuo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spatiotemporal distribution patterns of archaeological sites in China during the Neolithic and Bronze Age: An overview

(2016) Dominic Hosner et al.   HOLOCENE

Pollen evidence to interpret the history of rice farming at the Hemudu site on the Ningshao coast, eastern China

(2016) Yan Liu et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Late Holocene climate: Natural or anthropogenic?

(2016) W. F. Ruddiman et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Bayesian Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates

(2016) Christopher Bronk Ramsey   RADIOCARBON

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

(2015) Yan Liu et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Defining the epoch we live in

(2015) W. F. Ruddiman et al.   SCIENCE

From forest to farmland: pollen-inferred land cover change across Europe using the pseudobiomization approach

(2014) Ralph M. Fyfe et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Water management and agricultural intensification of rice farming at the late-Neolithic site of Maoshan, Lower Yangtze River, China

(2014) Yijie Zhuang 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

Modern pollen assemblages from cultivated rice fields and rice pollen morphology: Application to a study of ancient land use and agriculture in the Pearl River Delta, China

(2012) Shixiong Yang et al.   HOLOCENE

Evidence for a Neolithic Age fire-irrigation paddy cultivation system in the lower Yangtze River Delta, China

(2012) Linchao Hu et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Understanding the ecological background of rice agriculture on the Ningshao Plain during the Neolithic Age: pollen evidence from a buried paddy field at the Tianluoshan cultural site

(2012) Chunhai Li et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Did alder (Alnus) fires trigger rice cultivation in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, East China?

(2012) Jun-Wu Shu et al.   Palaeoworld

Staple or famine food?: ethnographic and archaeological approaches to nut processing in East Asian prehistory

(2011) Leo Aoi Hosoya   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Rice domestication and climatic change: phytolith evidence from East China

(2010) HOUYUAN LU et al.   BOREAS

Holocene carbon emissions as a result of anthropogenic land cover change

(2010) Jed O. Kaplan et al.   HOLOCENE

A functional analysis of grinding stones from an early holocene site at Donghulin, North China

(2010) Li Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

30 000-Year vegetation and climate change around the East China Sea shelf inferred from a high-resolution pollen record

(2010) Deke Xu et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Early Neolithic vegetation history, fire regime and human activity at Kuahuqiao, Lower Yangtze River, East China: New and improved insight

(2010) Junwu Shu et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Palaeoecological records of environmental change and cultural development from the Liangzhu and Qujialing archaeological sites in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River

(2010) Yiyin Li et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Declining oaks, increasing artistry, and cultivating rice: the environmental and social context of the emergence of farming in the Lower Yangtze Region

(2010) Dorian Q. Fuller et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Vegetation response to Holocene climate change in monsoon-influenced region of China

(2009) Yan Zhao et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Rice fields and modes of rice cultivation between 5000 and 2500 BC in east China

(2009) Zheng Yunfei et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Environmental history, palaeoecology and human activity at the early Neolithic forager/cultivator site at Kuahuqiao, Hangzhou, eastern China

(2009) James B. Innes et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The prehistoric and preindustrial deforestation of Europe

(2009) Jed O. Kaplan et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

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

(2009) D. Q Fuller et al.   SCIENCE

Starch grain analysis reveals function of grinding stone tools at Shangzhai site, Beijing

(2009) XiaoYan Yang et al.   Science in China. Series D, Earth sciences / Chinese Academy of Sciences

Increases of population and expansion of rice agriculture in Asia, and anthropogenic methane emissions since 5000BP

(2008) Xiaoqiang Li et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Holocene-aged sedimentary records of environmental changes and early agriculture in the lower Yangtze, China

(2008) P. Atahan et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Holocene vegetation history with implications of human impact in the Lake Chaohu area, Anhui Province, East China

(2008) Wei Chen et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Pollen indicators of human activity

(2008) YiYin Li et al.   Science Bulletin