Collapse of the Liangzhu and other Neolithic cultures in the lower Yangtze region in response to climate change

Authors: Haiwei Zhang, Hai Cheng, Ashish Sinha, Christoph Spötl, Yanjun Cai, Bin Liu, Gayatri Kathayat, Hanying Li, Ye Tian, Youwei Li, Jingyao Zhao, Lijuan Sha, Jiayu Lu, Binglin Meng, Xiaowen Niu, Xiyu Dong, Zeyuan Liang, Baoyun Zong, Youfeng Ning, Jianghu Lan, R. Lawrence Edwards

Published: 2021-11-26

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abi9275

Source: Full article

---

Abstract

Floods and megadroughts affected the Neolithic cultures in the Yangtze River Delta between 4300 and 4000 years ago.