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DOI	10.1177/0959683620970255
	New evidence for early human habitation in the Nyingchi Region, Southeast Tibetan Plateau
	Wang, Yanren; Gao, Yu; Yang, Jishuai; Tan, Yunyao; Shargan, Wangdue; Zhang, Shuai; Yang, Xiaoyan
通讯作者	Yang, XY (通讯作者)
发表日期	2021
ISSN	0959-6836
EISSN	1477-0911
起始页码	240
结束页码	246
卷号	31 期号:2
英文摘要	The lack of archaeological work has long impeded our understanding of prehistoric and historical human inhabitation and East-West interactions on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau (TP). In this study, we conducted a series of systematic archaeological investigations in the Nyingchi region, on the southeastern TP. We examined archaeological stratigraphies from 10 sites and collected charred seeds and charcoals for accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dating. The 26 radiocarbon dates show that the earliest inhabitation in the Nyingchi region can be traced back to as early as the fifth millennium BP. In addition, results of summed probability distribution (SPD) of radiocarbon dates suggest that intensive human activities occurred between c. 2700 and 2000 cal. yr BP. Together with the pottery net sinkers found in previous investigation, the newly identified archaeobotanical assemblages, including crops such as barley (Hordeum vulgare), naked barley (Hordeum vulgare var. nudum), wheat (Triticum aestivum) and pea (Pisum sativum), also confirm that cultivation and fishing were important subsistence strategies for people living in the prehistoric Nyingchi. The discoveries of domesticated crops from Southwest Asia also suggest that the southeastern TP, represented by the Nyingchi region, was part of the early communication network between the East and the West, predating historical Highland Silk Road.
关键词	PERMANENT HUMAN OCCUPATION AGRICULTURE COLONIZATION NORTHERN POPULATION CHRONOLOGY SPREAD CHINA
英文关键词	crop dispersal; Highland Silk Road; Nyingchi region; plant remains; radiocarbon dating; subsistence strategies
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology
WOS类目	Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:000612426100008
来源期刊	HOLOCENE
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/260257
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Yanren,Gao, Yu,Yang, Jishuai,et al. New evidence for early human habitation in the Nyingchi Region, Southeast Tibetan Plateau[J]. 中国科学院青藏高原研究所,2021,31(2).
APA	Wang, Yanren.,Gao, Yu.,Yang, Jishuai.,Tan, Yunyao.,Shargan, Wangdue.,...&Yang, Xiaoyan.(2021).New evidence for early human habitation in the Nyingchi Region, Southeast Tibetan Plateau.HOLOCENE,31(2).
MLA	Wang, Yanren,et al."New evidence for early human habitation in the Nyingchi Region, Southeast Tibetan Plateau".HOLOCENE 31.2(2021).