Tree-ring-based temperature reconstruction since 1766 ce in the eastern Tianshan Mountains, arid Central Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 687-699
Author(s):  
Zhengbing Peng ◽  
Li Qin ◽  
Xinjian Li ◽  
Heli Zhang ◽  
Youping Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Tree Ring ◽  
Temperature Reconstruction ◽  
Tianshan Mountains ◽  
Eastern Tianshan ◽  
Arid Central Asia

scholarly journals Tree-ring-based assessments of drought variability during the past 400 years in the Tianshan mountains, arid Central Asia

2021 ◽  
Vol 126 ◽  
pp. 107702
Author(s):  
Ting Wang ◽  
Anming Bao ◽  
Wenqiang Xu ◽  
Ruide Yu ◽  
Qingling Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Tree Ring ◽  
Tianshan Mountains ◽  
Drought Variability ◽  
Arid Central Asia ◽  
The Past

The Baigetuobie cemetery: New discovery and human genetic features of Andronovo community’s diffusion to the Eastern Tianshan Mountains (1800–1500 BC)

The Holocene ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 095968362097026
Author(s):  
Jiangsong Zhu ◽  
Jian Ma ◽  
Fan Zhang ◽  
Yinqiu Cui ◽  
Marcella Festa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Tianshan Mountains ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Eastern Tianshan ◽  
Genetic Features ◽  
Funeral Rituals ◽  
Short Time ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
New Discovery

Andronovo has been regarded as one of the most powerful cultures in Central Asia, which reflected frequent cultural interflow, people migration, and technique diffusion on the Bronze Age Eurasian steppes. In the past decade, many new discoveries in Xinjiang, such as Adunqiaolu and Jartai, have drawn broad attention to the communication of the Andronovo culture in the central Tianshan Mountains. However, systematic study is still insufficient on the communication and influence of the Andronovo culture or the “Andronovo phenomenon” along the Tianshan Mountains. Based on our comprehensive investigation of tomb structure, funeral rituals and assemblages, this article reclassifies relevant Andronovo remains in Xinjiang into five categories. Two categories represented by the Xiabandi cemetery and the Adunqiaolu show clear resemblance to those at Semirech’ye in all aspects, which indicated people in these regions may have maintained close and consistent interaction. Other three categories in the Kuokesuxi and Tangbalesayi cemetery have different tomb structures and funeral rituals from those typical discoveries of the Andronovo cultures in Central Asia in spite of the their similarity in pottery and bronze ornaments, which can be considered as the result of product exchange or technical communication, rather than population migration. New discovery of the Baigetuobie cemetery with evidence of tomb structure, dating, and human genetic features in the Balikun grassland suggested that there might be a small group of people, probably came from the central Tianshan Mountains or Semirech’ye or further west, had migrated to the Eastern Tianshan Mountains about 1600 BC, which was likely facilitated by the relatively warm and humid environment. They had preserved their traditional tomb architecture and were not active in cultural interaction and population fusion with people of Hami Oasis in the south. Due to some reason unknown, people of Baigetuobie had faded away from Balikun grassland after a short time.

Tree-ring δ18 O evidence for the drought history of eastern Tianshan Mountains, northwest China since 1700 AD

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (12) ◽  
pp. 3336-3347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guobao Xu ◽  
Xiaohong Liu ◽  
Dahe Qin ◽  
Tuo Chen ◽  
Wenzhi Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tree Ring ◽  
Northwest China ◽  
Tianshan Mountains ◽  
Eastern Tianshan ◽  
History Of

A 189-year tree-ring record of drought for the Dzungarian Alatau, arid Central Asia

2017 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
pp. 305-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruibo Zhang ◽  
Tongwen Zhang ◽  
Nurzhan Kelgenbayev ◽  
Qing He ◽  
Bagila Maisupova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Tree Ring ◽  
Arid Central Asia

A 352-year record of summer temperature reconstruction in the western Tianshan Mountains, China, as deduced from tree-ring density

2013 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shulong Yu ◽  
Yujiang Yuan ◽  
Wenshou Wei ◽  
Feng Chen ◽  
Tongwen Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tree Ring ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Temperature Reconstruction ◽  
Tianshan Mountains ◽  
Ring Density ◽  
Climatic Variations ◽  
Western Tianshan ◽  
Reconstructed Temperature ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Positive Correlations

Three robust tree-ring density chronologies were developed for the western Tianshan Mountains of northwestern China. The chronologies were significantly correlated and form a regional chronology (GLD). The GLD had significant and positive correlations with temperature of warm seasons. Based on this relationship, the mean minimum temperatures of May to August were reconstructed using the GLD chronology for the period AD 1657 to 2008. The temperature reconstruction exhibited temperature patterns on interannual to centennial timescales, and showed that the end of the 20th century is the warmest period in the past 352 years. The reconstructed temperature variation has a teleconnection with large-scale atmospheric–oceanic variability and captures long- and broad-scale regional climatic variations.

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