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| Lake level evidence for a mid-Holocene East Asian summer monsoon maximum and the impact of an abrupt late-Holocene drought event on prehistoric cultures in north-central China Z Zhang, Z Shen, S Zhang, J Chen, S Chen, D Li, S Zhang, X Liu, D Wu, ... The Holocene 33 (4), 382-399, 2023 | 12 | 2023 |
| Asynchronous transformation of human livelihoods in key regions of the trans-Eurasia exchange in China during 4000-2200 BP M Ma, M Lu, S Zhang, R Min, G Dong Quaternary Science Reviews 291, 107665, 2022 | 11 | 2022 |
| Anthropogenic origin of a change in the fire-climate relationship in northern China after∼ 2000 yr BP: Evidence from a 15,500-year black carbon record from Dali Lake Z Zhang, J Liu, S Chen, S Zhang, X Jia, A Zhou, J Zhao, J Chen, Z Shen, ... Journal of Geographical Sciences 32 (6), 1136-1156, 2022 | 10 | 2022 |
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