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Monsoon Rains, Great Rivers and the Development of Farming Civilisations in Asia [Kietas viršelis]

(Louisiana State University),
  • Formatas: Hardback, 350 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 175x250x20 mm, weight: 760 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 07-Jan-2021
  • Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1107030080
  • ISBN-13: 9781107030084
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 350 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 175x250x20 mm, weight: 760 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 07-Jan-2021
  • Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1107030080
  • ISBN-13: 9781107030084
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The Asian monsoon and associated river systems supply the water that sustains a large portion of humanity, and has enabled Asia to become home to some of the oldest and most productive farming systems on Earth. This book uses climate data and environmental models to provide a detailed review of variations in the Asian monsoon since the mid-Holocene, and its impacts on farming systems and human settlement. Future changes to the monsoon due to anthropogenically-driven global warming are also discussed. Faced with greater rainfall and more cyclones in South Asia, as well as drying in North China and regional rising sea levels, understanding how humans have developed resilient strategies in the past to climate variations is critical. Containing important implications for the large populations and booming economies in the Indo-Pacific region, this book is an important resource for researchers and graduate students studying the climate, environmental history, agronomy and archaeology of Asia.

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A detailed review of climate change and its impacts on farming systems since the Neolithic, including anticipated future changes.
Acknowledgments viii
1 Introduction
1(36)
1.1 Climate and Farming Societies in Asia
1(3)
1.2 The Monsoon in Asia
4(2)
1.3 Environmental Impact of the Monsoon
6(3)
1.4 Past Monsoon Environments
9(6)
1.5 Niche Construction and Plant-Human Coevolution
15(2)
1.6 Connecting Changes in the Monsoon to Changes in Human Society
17(9)
1.7 Human Farming Strategies
26(5)
1.8 The 8.2 ka Event as a Global Warming Analogue
31(4)
1.9 Summary
35(2)
2 Temporal Variations in the Asian Monsoon
37(35)
2.1 Introduction
37(5)
2.2 Annual to Decadal Timescales
42(3)
2.3 Intra-seasonal Variations in the Monsoon
45(1)
2.4 Links to Australian-Indonesian Monsoon
46(2)
2.5 Measuring the Monsoon
48(3)
2.6 Reconstructing the Prehistoric Monsoon
51(4)
2.7 Chemical Weathering and the Monsoon
55(1)
2.8 Cave Records as Climate Proxies
56(3)
2.9 Lake Records
59(1)
2.10 Swamp Deposits
60(1)
2.11 Organic Geochemistry
61(1)
2.12 Tree Rings
62(2)
2.13 Temperature Proxies
64(2)
2.14 Monsoon during the Little Ice Age
66(1)
2.15 Historical Records
67(2)
2.16 Synthesis and Summary
69(3)
3 Monsoon and Societies in Southwest Asia
72(40)
3.1 Monsoonal Weather Patterns in South Asia
76(1)
3.2 Crops and Fanning in South Asia
77(1)
3.3 Paleoclimate Proxy Records in South Asia
77(10)
3.4 Rivers in South Asia: Morphology and Mythology
87(2)
3.5 Early Farmers in the Indus Valley
89(16)
3.6 The Historic Period
105(5)
3.7 Synthesis and Summary
110(2)
4 Origins of a Uniquely Adaptive Farming System: Rice Farming Systems in Monsoon Asia
112(36)
4.1 Introduction
112(3)
4.2 Rice Ecology
115(5)
4.3 The Background to Rice Domestication: Transformations during the Late Upper Paleolithic in China
120(2)
4.4 Broad Spectrum Foraging, Early Exploitation of Rice and Holocene Climate
122(6)
4.5 Development of Rice Cultivation Technology
128(2)
4.6 Climate Change and the Development of New Varieties of Rice during the Establishment and Early Spread of Rice Farming in East Asia
130(4)
4.7 Niche Construction, Geographic and Climatic Barriers in the Spread of Rice to Southwest and Southeast China
134(4)
4.8 Great Rivers, Niche Construction, and Rice Irrigation on the Chengdu Plain
138(3)
4.9 The Spread of New Technology and Crops during the Historic Period
141(6)
4.10 Synthesis and Summary
147(1)
5 Dryland Farming in the Northern Monsoon Frontier
148(38)
5.1 Paleoclimate in Northern Monsoon Area from MIS3 to the LGM
149(1)
5.2 Late Pleistocene Foragers in the Northern Monsoon Area
150(6)
5.3 Intensification during the Boiling--Allerod and Younger Dryas
156(4)
5.4 The Origins of Millet Farming in North China
160(6)
5.5 Consolidation and Expansion during the Climatic Optimum
166(3)
5.6 The 4 ka Event, Collapses of Millet Agriculture on the Margins of the Tibetan Plateau and Northeast China, and Changes in Jomon Japan
169(4)
5.7 Adaptations and Resilience: A New Economic Model
173(6)
5.8 Changes in the Monsoon during the Historic Period
179(3)
5.9 The Impact of Changing Climate on Pastoralism in the Steppe
182(2)
5.10 Synthesis and Summary
184(2)
6 Recent Changes in Monsoon Climate
186(47)
6.1 Transformations in Farming during the Twentieth Century
186(5)
6.2 Precipitation Changes in the Twentieth Century
191(9)
6.3 Evolution of Tropical Cyclones
200(3)
6.4 Rainfall in South Asia
203(5)
6.5 River Drainage Evolution
208(10)
6.6 Damming on the Yangtze
218(2)
6.7 Sediment in the Yellow River
220(2)
6.8 Impacts on Farming Systems in South Asia
222(9)
6.9 Synthesis and Summary
231(2)
7 Future Monsoon Predictions
233(48)
7.1 Monsoon and Global Climate Change
233(6)
7.2 Hydrologic Response to Warming
239(8)
7.3 Modeling Future Monsoon Intensity
247(10)
7.4 Typhoons and Cyclones
257(8)
7.5 Changes in River Runoff
265(3)
7.6 Predictions of Future Sea Level Rise
268(7)
7.7 Synthesis and Summary
275(6)
References 281(54)
Index 335
Peter Clift is the Charles T. McCord Chair in Petroleum Geology at Louisiana State University. He is an affiliate faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yunnan University, China, and a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. In 2008 he co-authored The Asian Monsoon: Causes, History and Effects (Cambridge). Jade d'Alpoim Guedes is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California. Jade is an environmental archaeologist and ethnobiologist who employs an interdisciplinary research program to understand how humans adapted their foraging practices and agricultural strategies to new environments and have developed resilience in the face of climatic and social change.