Late-Holocene vegetation change reveals the environment of ancient people and the origin of Huashan cliff paintings in Guangxi, southwestern China

doi:10.1177/0959683620919980

	Late-Holocene vegetation change reveals the environment of ancient people and the origin of Huashan cliff paintings in Guangxi, southwestern China
	Li, Kai ; Zhang, Yun 1; Liao, Mengna ; Ni, Jian ; Chen, Yunfa 2
	2020
发表期刊	HOLOCENE
ISSN	0959-6836
卷号	30 期号:9 页码:1296-1309
摘要	Human activities in the historical period were determined by the natural environment and social characteristics. The Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art Cultural Landscape in Guangxi is the most important World Heritage for prehistorical culture in southwestern China. However, knowledge about the natural environment and associated historic human-climate interactions during the period of cliff painting creation remains scarce, which has been an obstacle to understanding the process of regional civilization. Here, we report a pollen record from the core distributing region of Huashan cliff paintings to interpret the natural environment and climate changes, and further to discuss how and why ancient people create these giant cliff paintings based on the relationships of human-climate interactions. Pollen results imply an existence of a mixed broad-leaf and conifer forest in the woodland landscape at Huashan region before 1860 cal. yr BP, after which pine forests were more prevalent. During the cliff painting period from 2370 to 2115 cal. yr BP, broad-leaf and conifer trees dominated the tree layer and provided the key source materials for painting. It can be reasonably assumed that people used stake or ladder to climb the cliffs and created the cliff paintings during a humid climate condition from 2560 to 2000 cal. yr BP. Furthermore, the humid climate during 2700 and 2400 cal. yr BP had been interrupted by short-term drought episodes. These turbulent climate episodes probably played the role of disasters and impacted on the human activities, leading to the social-political tensions and the out-break of war. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, social-political changes relieved the pressure from natural climate changes and led to a more stable society, in which the creating of cliff paintings was gradually fading. Our results manifest the necessity to analyze the natural environment and social-political background in combination in this study on ancient human activities.
关键词	creating motivation Dahu Lake Huashan cliff painting human-climate interaction living environment pollen analysis
学科领域	Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
DOI	10.1177/0959683620919980
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS关键词	HUGUANGYAN MAAR LAKE ; RESOLUTION POLLEN RECORD ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; YUNNAN PROVINCE ; ASIAN MONSOON ; SEDIMENTS ; HISTORY ; PLEISTOCENE ; OPTIMUM ; MODEL
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology
WOS记录号	WOS:000533916600001
出版者	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
文献子类	Article
出版地	LONDON
EISSN	1477-0911
资助机构	National Key R&D Program of China [2016YFC0502101] ; National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [41662002] ; Natural History Museum of Guangxi, China ; China Scholarship CouncilChina Scholarship Council
作者邮箱	nijian@zjnu.edu.cn ; chenyunfa@163.com
引用统计	被引频次：2[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.ibcas.ac.cn/handle/2S10CLM1/21759
专题	植被与环境变化国家重点实验室
作者单位	1.Zhejiang Normal Univ, Coll Chem & Life Sci, Jinhua 321004, Zhejiang, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, State Key Lab Vegetat & Environm Change, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Nat Hist Museum Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Reg, Nanning 530022, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Kai,Zhang, Yun,Liao, Mengna,et al. Late-Holocene vegetation change reveals the environment of ancient people and the origin of Huashan cliff paintings in Guangxi, southwestern China[J]. HOLOCENE,2020,30(9):1296-1309.
APA	Li, Kai,Zhang, Yun,Liao, Mengna,Ni, Jian,&Chen, Yunfa.(2020).Late-Holocene vegetation change reveals the environment of ancient people and the origin of Huashan cliff paintings in Guangxi, southwestern China.HOLOCENE,30(9),1296-1309.
MLA	Li, Kai,et al."Late-Holocene vegetation change reveals the environment of ancient people and the origin of Huashan cliff paintings in Guangxi, southwestern China".HOLOCENE 30.9(2020):1296-1309.

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