GC044
Human-environmental Interactions Along the Ancient Silk Roads
Session ID#: 156607
Session Description:
The trajectory and patterns of human-environment interaction in the past is a widely concerned issue. Climate and environment change have greatly impacted and shaped human evolution and societal developments, while fundamental technological innovations and subsequent diffusion, and tans-regional cultural exchange, might have significantly improved human ability to adapt to various habitats, and human impact on natural environment. The Ancient Silk Roads, which play important roles in trans-Eurasia exchange during both historical and prehistoric times, developed between Europe and East Asia, a vast region of highly diverse in climate, environment, and ecology. The dynamics of glacial advances and associated melt waters, changing rain-shadow effects, and shifting oases, contributed to the emergence of a trans-continental cultural exchange that laid the foundation for the formation of the ancient Silk Road. This major corridor of exchange linked the agricultural centers of Eurasia starting in the third millennium BCE and intensifying with the formal establishment of trade routes between the second century BCE and the sixteenth century CE. Over the past few years, inter-disciplinary research and novel methods have expanded our understanding of the archaeology and paleoecology of Central Eurasia. The aim of this session is to provide an open platform for scientists to discuss the history of climate change, human cultural development, and human-environment interaction across the ancient Silk Roads in historical and prehistoric times.
Co-Organized:
Index Terms:
1605 Abrupt/rapid climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener: Juzhi Hou, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Convener: Xiaoyan Yang, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
Student/Early Career Convener: Haichao Xie, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Climate Change Triggered the Shift of the Route of the Ancient Silk Road (1043060)
Haipeng Wang1, Jianhui Chen2, Guanghui Dong2, Zhilin Shi3 and Fahu Chen4, (1)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, CHINA, (2)Lanzhou University, MOE Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental System, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (3)Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, (4)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Sedimentary Pediastrum record of middle–late Holocene temperature change and its impacts on early human culture in the desert-oasis area of northwestern China (1087976)
Xiaozhong Huang1, Lixiong Xiang1, Guoliang Lei2, Mingjie Sun1, Menghan Qiu1, Michael Storozum3, Chong Huang1, Chuluunbat Munkhbayar4, Otgonbayar Demberel5, Jun Zhang1, Jiawu Zhang1, Xuemei Chen6, Jianhui Chen1 and Fahu Chen1,7, (1)Lanzhou University, MOE Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental System, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (2)Fujian Normal University, Key Laboratory for Humid Subtropical Ecogeographical Process of the Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Sciences, Fuzhou, China, (3)Fudan University, Institute of Archaeological Science, Shanghai, China, (4)Khovd State University, Department of History and Social Sciences, Institute of Social and Human Sciences, Khovd, Mongolia, (5)Khovd State University, Institute of Natural Science and Technology, Khovd, Mongolia, (6)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environmental and Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (7)Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Tracking Migration and Mobility of Mammals in Central West Iran in Response to Shifting Climate: A Multi-Isotope Approach (1096305)
Keiran A Swart, Beta Analytic-Isobar Science, Research and Development, Miami, United States, Arash Sharifi, University of Miami, 1- Neptune Isotope Laboratory (NIL), Department of Marine Geosciences, , Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, United States, Ali Pourmand, Neptune Isotope Laboratory (NIL), Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Department of Marine Geosciences, Miami, FL, United States, Marjan Mashkour, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, Paris, France, William Pestel, University of Miami, Department of Anthropology, Coral Gables, United States and Hamid A.K. Lahijani, Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science (INIOAS), Marine Geology Division, Tehran, Iran
Provenancing Ancient Plant-Ash Glass on the Silk Roads: Inter-Regional Trade and Natural Resources Exploitation (1105452)
QinQin Lu1,2, Julian Henderson3, Yi-Xiang Chen1, Germain Bayon4 and Hassan Basafa5, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, (4)IFREMER, Plouzané, France, (5)University of Neyshabur, Neyshabur, Iran
Changes in the Water Level of Jili Lake in Northern Xinjiang over the Past 5200 Years and Its Impact on the Ancient Silk Road. (1146348)
Ruijin Chen1, Jianhui Chen1, Aifeng Zhou1 and Haipeng Wang2, (1)Lanzhou University, MOE Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental System, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (2)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, CHINA
Climate change and Silk Road civilization in the arid central Asia (Invited) (1194657)
Fahu Chen1,2, Jianhui Chen3, Guanghui Dong3, Wei Huang2, Juzhi Hou1 and Tao Wang1, (1)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Lanzhou University, MOE Key Laboratory of West China's Environmental System, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (3)Lanzhou University, MOE Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental System, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China
Understanding the transport networks complex between South Asia, Southeast Asia and China during the late Neolithic and Bronze Age (1199017)
Minmin Ma1, Yongxiu Lu2, Guanghui Dong3, Ruiliang Liu4, Yu Gao5 and Fahu Chen5, (1)Lanzhou University, MOE Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental System, College of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (2)Lanzhou Unversity, Lanzhou, China, (3)Lanzhou University, MOE Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental System, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (4)The Department of Asia, British Museum, London, United Kingdom, (5)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Spatio-temporal patterns of centennial-scale climate change over the Tibetan Plateau during the past two millennia and their possible mechanisms (1199375)
Juzhi Hou1, Xiumei Li1,2 and Yong Zhang3, (1)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)School of Geographic Sciences, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang, Xinyang, China, (3)Key Lab of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Abrupt climate change in arid central Asia during the Holocene: a review (1200254)
Xiaokang Liu, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China, Jianhui Chen, Lanzhou University, MOE Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental System, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China, Shengqian Chen, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China and Fahu Chen, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) facilitating the limnological surveys of alpine lakes across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (1201648)
Mingda Wang1, Cange Li2, Zhe Sun3, Kejia Ji4 and Juzhi Hou4, (1)Liaoning Normal University, School of Geography, Liaoning, China, (2)Hebei Normal University, College of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Shijiazhuang, China, (3)Sichuan Normal University, Institute of Geography and Resources Science, Chengdu, China, (4)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
