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Articles | Volume 16, issue 5
Articles | Volume 16, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2483-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2483-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 5
Data description paper
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24 May 2024
Data description paper |  | 24 May 2024

Seeing the wood for the trees: active human–environmental interactions in arid northwestern China

Hui Shen, Robert N. Spengler, Xinying Zhou, Alison Betts, Peter Weiming Jia, Keliang Zhao, and Xiaoqiang Li

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Understanding how early farmers adapted to their environments is important regarding how we respond to the changing climate. Here, we present wood charcoal records from northwestern China to explore human–environmental interactions. Our data suggest that people started managing chestnut trees around 4600 BP and cultivating fruit trees and transporting conifers from 3500 BP. From 2500 BP, people established horticultural systems, showing that they actively adapted to the environment.
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