Vegetation Change and Human Impacts on Rebun Island (Northwest Pacific) Over the Last 6000 Years
Quaternary Science Reviews 193 (2018) 129e144 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Quaternary Science Reviews journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/quascirev Vegetation change and human impacts on Rebun Island (Northwest Pacific) over the last 6000 years * Christian Leipe a, , Stefanie Müller b, Konrad Hille a, Hirofumi Kato c, Franziska Kobe a, Mareike Schmidt a, Konrad Seyffert a, Robert Spengler III d, Mayke Wagner b, ** Andrzej W. Weber e, Pavel E. Tarasov a, a Institute of Geological Sciences, Paleontology Section, Freie Universitat€ Berlin, Malteserstr. 74-100, Building D, 12249 Berlin, Germany b Eurasia Department and Beijing Branch Office, German Archaeological Institute, Im Dol 2-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany c Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University, Kita 8, Nishi 6, Kita-ku Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan d Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Max-Planck-Institut für Menschheitsgeschichte), Jena, Germany e Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Tory Bldg. 13e15, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada article info abstract Article history: This study presents a high-resolution, chronologically well-constrained pollen record from Lake Kushu Received 3 May 2018 (452505800N, 1410200500E) and a record of archaeobotanical remains from the nearby Hamanaka 2 Received in revised form archaeological site. The pollen record suggests continuous long-term cooling, which parallels the decline 10 June 2018 in Northern Hemisphere summer insolation. This cooling trend is overlaid by several rather quick Accepted 10 June 2018 transitions towards cooler conditions (ca. 5540/5350, 1550, and 390 cal BP) and one distinct decadal- scale cold event around 4130 cal BP. These shifts, on one hand, correspond with major hemispherical or global-scale climate transitions/events, including the ‘Holocene Climate Transition’, the onset of the Keywords: ‘ ’ ‘ ’ ‘ ’ Holocene Dark Ages Cold Period main phase, the Little Ice Age , and the 4.2 kiloyear event , respectively.
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