Human Impact and Environmental Change in the Lower Yangtze Delta, China

基于沉积物的古环境条件的代理组合，该项目试图将长江三角洲的地貌和气候变化的现有模型与考古和历史记录中明显的文化变迁联系起来。长江流域是亚洲农业的发源地，因此也是乡村生活和中国文化的发源地。自全新世早期以来，三角洲地区已扩展了100多公里，其表面保存着新石器时代和现代文化的继承。 该项目调查全新世河流迁移、海平面和气候变化对社会的相对影响，以及该地区转变为人为景观时社会对植被、富营养化和侵蚀的相对影响。这些结果将使人类与环境相互作用的模型能够与为人类开发的模型进行比较。 欧洲、非洲、澳大利亚和中东。

Based upon a combination of sediment-based proxies of palaeoenvironmental conditions this project attempts to link existing models of geomorphological and climatic variability for the Yangtze Delta to cultural changes evident in archaeological and historical records. The Yangtze valley was the home of agriculture in Asia and hence for the beginnings of village life and Chinese culture. The delta region has prograded over 100 km since the early Holocene and there is a well- preserved succession of Neolithic and modern cultures across its surface. The project investigates the relative impact of Holocene river migration, sealevel and climate change on societies, and also the relative impact of societies on vegetation, eutrophication and erosion while the region was converted to an anthropogenic landscape. The results will enable models of human-environmental interactions to be compared with those developed for Europe, Africa, Australia and the Middle East.