Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China

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Contents
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Archeology at the margins: Exploring the Late Paleolithic to Neolithic transition in China’s arid west Review Article
Pages 3-7
David B. Madsen, Fa-Hu Chen, Xing Gao

Responses of Chinese desert lakes to climate instability during the past 45,000 years Review Article
Pages 11-24
Bernd Wünnemann, Kai Hartmann, Manon Janssen, C. Zhang Hucai

Post-glacial climate variability and drought events in the monsoon transition zone of western China Review Article
Pages 25-39
Fa-Hu Chen, Bo Cheng, Hui Zhao, Yu-Xin Fan, David B. Madsen, Ming Jin

Vegetation evolution in arid China during Marine Isotope Stages 3 and 2 (~65–11 ka) Review Article
Pages 41-49
Herzschuh Ulrike, Liu Xingqi

Holocene vegetation and climate changes from fossil pollen records in arid and semi-arid China Review Article
Pages 51-65
Yan Zhao, Zicheng Yu, Fa-Hu Chen, Chengbang An

Variation in Late Quaternary central Asian climates and the nature of human response Review Article
Pages 69-82
David B. Madsen, Robert G. Elston

The transition to agriculture in northwestern China Review Article
Pages 83-101
Robert L. Bettinger, Loukas Barton, Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, Hui Wang, Won Choi

Late Pleistocene climate change and Paleolithic cultural evolution in northern China: Implications from the Last Glacial Maximum Review Article
Pages 105-128
Loukas Barton, P. Jeffrey Brantingham, Duxue Ji

A short chronology for the peopling of the Tibetan Plateau Review Article
Pages 129-150
P. Jeffrey Brantingham, Xing Gao, John W. Olsen, Haizhou Ma, David Rhode, Haiying Zhang, David B. Madsen

Modeling the Neolithic on the Tibetan Plateau Review Article
Pages 151-165
Mark S. Aldenderfer

Zooarcheological evidence for animal domestication in northwest China Review Article
Pages 167-203
Rowan K. Flad, Jing 袁靖 Yuan, Shuicheng 李水城 Li

Yaks, yak dung, and prehistoric human habitation of the Tibetan Plateau Review Article
Pages 205-224
David Rhode, David B. Madsen, P. Jeffrey Brantingham, Tsultrim Dargye

Changing views of Late Quaternary human adaptation in arid China Review Article
Pages 227-232
David B. Madsen, Fa-Hu Chen, Xing Gao

Index
Pages 233-237