%0 Journal Article
%T ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES OF THE YIN RUINS AREA BASED ON POLLEN ANALYSIS<br>殷墟地区土壤剖面孢粉组合特征及环境意义*
%A Zhang Zhenqing
%A Xu Qinghai
%A Li Yuecong
%A Yang Xiaolan
%A Jing Zhichun
%A Tang Jigen
%A <br>张振卿
%A 许清海
%A 李月丛
%A 阳小兰
%A 荆志淳
%A 唐际根
%J 第四纪研究
%D 2007
%I 
%X In order to understand the origin, flourishing and declining of the Yin Dynasty better, pollen analysis of three randomly disturbed natural soil profiles (Chadianpo, Guang 1 and Guang 2) have been derived near the sites of the Yin Ruins. The lithology of the profiles are similar, all consisting of grey-black paleo-soil layers formed before the Yin Dynasty at the bottom, and the upper different-colored sub-clay layers formed after the Yin Dynasty. Pollen assemblage of the gray-black paleo-soil in the Chadianpo profile was dominated (more than 60%) by arboreal pollen, such as Pinus, Juglans, Betula and so on. Pollen of herbs which was dominate by Artemisia, Compositae and Gramineae was much lower, no more than 30% in general. It implies that the paleo-vegetation in the vicinity of Anyang City was warm deciduous broad-leaved forest. The pollen assemblages of Guang 1 and Guang 2 in the Guangrunpo which is about 20km away to the southeast of the Anyang City, were similar to each other and both were dominated by herb pollen of mesophytes and hygrophytes, such as Typha, Cyperaceae, and Ranunculaceae, revealing that the paleo-vegetations were mainly marsh and grassland, which was different from the vicinity of the Anyang City at that time. Although the profiles of Guang 1 and Guang 2 are close to each other (only 1.6km apart), there were little differences between the pollen assemblages of the two profiles. There were much more mesophyte and hygrophyte herb pollen types like Cyperaceae and Ranunculaceae in Guang 2, which indicates that it was a little lower in elevation and much wetter than the location of Guang 1. In the upper parts of the gray-black paleo-soil, there were increasing contents of Gramineae and Selaginella sinensis pollen, which reveals that ancient humans have already dwelled here at that time, and the forests in the vicinity might have been destroyed by human activities. Above the gray-black paleo-soil in the Chadianpo profile, the arboreal pollen diminished sharply, rightly at the flourishing time of the Yin culture, suggesting a serious deforestation by ancient citizen for the construction of the city and daily life. A similar phenomenon could be found in the two profiles of Guangrunpo, the contents of arboreal pollen also decreased sharply at the boundary between the gray-black paleo-soil and the upper parts. The later diminishing of arboreal pollen and increasing of Selaginella sinensis from the three profiles revealed the process of the deforestation in Anyang and the western mountain areas.
%K Yin Ruins
%K pollen
%K environmental archeology<br>殷墟
%K 孢粉
%K 环境考古
%U http://www.alljournals.cn/get_abstract_url.aspx?pcid=E62459D214FD64A3C8082E4ED1ABABED5711027BBBDDD35B&cid=621CF755B1A341E5&jid=EA07051745CDC8D89D5F01A3A4CFE6A9&aid=F7FA35DE418B32BA&yid=A732AF04DDA03BB3&vid=DB817633AA4F79B9&iid=38B194292C032A66&sid=FCACFF68346F8D4F&eid=3FC4D669D19FF0C6&journal_id=1001-7410&journal_name=第四纪研究&referenced_num=0&reference_num=60