The collapse of the North Song dynasty and the AD 1048–1128 Yellow River floods : geoarchaeological evidence from northern Henan Province, China

• Main Authors: Storozum, Michael J., Zhen, Qin, Xiaolin, Ren, Haiming, Li, Yifu, Cui, Kui, Fu, Haiwang, Liu
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Environmental engineering; Floods; Geoarchaeology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137334
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

From AD 1048 to 1128, Yellow River flooding killed over a million people, left many more homeless and destitute, and turned parts of the once fertile North China Plain into a silted-up agricultural wasteland. Brought on in part by climate change and the Northern Song dynasty’s (AD 960–1127) mismanag...