Oasis landscape of the ancient Loulan on the west bank of Lake Lop Nur, Northwest China, inferred from vegetation utilization for architecture

doi:10.1177/0959683619831423

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	Oasis landscape of the ancient Loulan on the west bank of Lake Lop Nur, Northwest China, inferred from vegetation utilization for architecture
	Li, Kangkang 8,9,10; Qin, Xiaoguang 9,10; Zhang, Lei 7,10; Wang, Shuzhi 6; Xu, Bing 8,10; Mu, Guijin 5; Wu, Yong 4; Tian, Xiaohong 4; Wei, Dong 3; Gu, Zhaoyan 8,10
刊名	HOLOCENE
	2019-06-01
卷号	29 期号:6 页码:1030-1044
关键词	ecological landscape Lop Nur Loulan kingdom precipitation Silk Road vegetation utilization
ISSN号	0959-6836
DOI	10.1177/0959683619831423
英文摘要	The ancient Loulan, situated on the west bank of Lake Lop Nur, Xinjiang, Northwest China, was an important town on the Silk Road connecting China to Europe. However, this once-prosperous kingdom has been a depopulated zone filled with wind-eroded mounds since approximately AD 500-600. A comprehensive understanding of the environmental setting of the flourishing Loulan civilization is a prerequisite for assessing environment-human interaction there. Here, we present our survey, chronology, and archaeobotany (the identification of plant remains) of vegetation use for architecture from eight ancient ruins of the Loulan kingdom to clarify the ecological landscape on the west bank of Lake Lop Nur and to assess paleoenvironmental conditions when the Loulan kingdom flourished. Our results suggest that Populus euphratica, tamarisk (Tamarix Linn), and reed (Phragmites Trin.) were most widely used as building materials in this period. Wood utilization for buildings depended entirely on indigenous vegetation rather than that of the mountains in the Loulan kingdom, even though the Loulan was a predominant transportation hub on the prosperous Silk Road. Our reconstruction indicates that the west bank of Lake Lop Nur was sufficiently wetter than present conditions to support riparian forest growth composed mainly of P. euphratica, tamarisk shrubs, and reed meadows, until approximately AD 500. These wetter conditions and flourishing civilization accompanied an increase in precipitation in arid central Asia. Conversely, combined evidence of both archeological and paleoclimatic records from the water sources of Lake Lop Nur and ancient oases suggest that abrupt decreased mountain precipitation could be considered a significant environmental factor in the decline of Loulan kingdom.
WOS关键词	CENTRAL TIAN-SHAN ; TARIM BASIN ; SOUTHERN XINJIANG ; HOLOCENE HISTORY ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; KERIYA RIVER ; CENTRAL-ASIA ; SITE ; PALEOENVIRONMENT ; EVOLUTION
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology
语种	英语
出版者	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
WOS记录号	WOS:000485295500008
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.iggcas.ac.cn/handle/132A11/93878]
专题	地质与地球物理研究所_中国科学院新生代地质与环境重点实验室
通讯作者	Li, Kangkang; Qin, Xiaoguang
作者单位	1.Bur Cultural Heritage Ruoqiang Cty, Xinjiang, Peoples R China 2.Minnan Normal Univ, Sch Hist & Geog, Zhangzhou, Peoples R China 3.Jilin Univ, Sch Archaeol, Changchun, Jilin, Peoples R China 4.Xinjiang Inst Archaeol, Xinjiang, Peoples R China 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Xinjiang Inst Ecol & Geog, Beijing, Peoples R China 6.Chinese Acad Social Sci, Inst Archaeol, Beijing, Peoples R China 7.Chinese Acad Geol Sci, Inst Geomech, Beijing, Peoples R China 8.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 9.CAS Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Beijing, Peoples R China 10.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geol & Geophys, Key Lab Cenozo Geol & Environm, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Kangkang,Qin, Xiaoguang,Zhang, Lei,et al. Oasis landscape of the ancient Loulan on the west bank of Lake Lop Nur, Northwest China, inferred from vegetation utilization for architecture[J]. HOLOCENE,2019,29(6):1030-1044.
APA	Li, Kangkang.,Qin, Xiaoguang.,Zhang, Lei.,Wang, Shuzhi.,Xu, Bing.,...&Jiao, Yinxin.(2019).Oasis landscape of the ancient Loulan on the west bank of Lake Lop Nur, Northwest China, inferred from vegetation utilization for architecture.HOLOCENE,29(6),1030-1044.
MLA	Li, Kangkang,et al."Oasis landscape of the ancient Loulan on the west bank of Lake Lop Nur, Northwest China, inferred from vegetation utilization for architecture".HOLOCENE 29.6(2019):1030-1044.