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

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...

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Main Authors: Storozum, Michael J., Zhen, Qin, Xiaolin, Ren, Haiming, Li, Yifu, Cui, Kui, Fu, Haiwang, Liu
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1373342020-09-26T21:30:51Z The collapse of the North Song dynasty and the AD 1048–1128 Yellow River floods : geoarchaeological evidence from northern Henan Province, China Storozum, Michael J. Zhen, Qin Xiaolin, Ren Haiming, Li Yifu, Cui Kui, Fu Haiwang, Liu Asian School of the Environment Earth Observatory of Singapore Engineering::Environmental engineering Floods Geoarchaeology 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) mismanagement of the environment, the Yellow River floods likely hastened the collapse of the Northern Song dynasty. Despite the magnitude of this flood event, no sedimentary deposits have yet been linked to these historically recorded floods. In this research paper, we provide archaeological, sedimentary, and radiocarbon evidence of the AD 1048–1128 Yellow River floods at the Dazhanglongcun, Xidacheng, and Daguxiancun sites in Neihuang County, Henan Province. Based on our data, we argue that the AD 1048–1128 Yellow River floods deposited over 5 m of alluvium on villages in the North China Plain, radically changing both the physical and political landscape of Northern Song dynasty China. NRF (Natl Research Foundation, S’pore) MOE (Min. of Education, S’pore) Accepted version 2020-03-18T04:35:32Z 2020-03-18T04:35:32Z 2018 Journal Article Storozum, M. J., Zhen, Q., Xiaolin, R., Haiming, L., Yifu, C., Kui, F., & Haiwang, L. (2018). The collapse of the North Song dynasty and the AD 1048–1128 Yellow River floods : geoarchaeological evidence from northern Henan Province, China. The Holocene, 28(11), 1759-1770. doi:10.1177/0959683618788682 0959-6836 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137334 10.1177/0959683618788682 2-s2.0-85052564281 11 28 1759 1770 en The Holocene © 2018 The Author(s). All rights reserved. This paper was published by SAGE Publications in The Holocene and is made available with permission of The Author(s). application/pdf
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topic Engineering::Environmental engineering
Floods
Geoarchaeology
spellingShingle Engineering::Environmental engineering
Floods
Geoarchaeology
Storozum, Michael J.
Zhen, Qin
Xiaolin, Ren
Haiming, Li
Yifu, Cui
Kui, Fu
Haiwang, Liu
The collapse of the North Song dynasty and the AD 1048–1128 Yellow River floods : geoarchaeological evidence from northern Henan Province, China
description 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) mismanagement of the environment, the Yellow River floods likely hastened the collapse of the Northern Song dynasty. Despite the magnitude of this flood event, no sedimentary deposits have yet been linked to these historically recorded floods. In this research paper, we provide archaeological, sedimentary, and radiocarbon evidence of the AD 1048–1128 Yellow River floods at the Dazhanglongcun, Xidacheng, and Daguxiancun sites in Neihuang County, Henan Province. Based on our data, we argue that the AD 1048–1128 Yellow River floods deposited over 5 m of alluvium on villages in the North China Plain, radically changing both the physical and political landscape of Northern Song dynasty China.
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Storozum, Michael J.
Zhen, Qin
Xiaolin, Ren
Haiming, Li
Yifu, Cui
Kui, Fu
Haiwang, Liu
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author Storozum, Michael J.
Zhen, Qin
Xiaolin, Ren
Haiming, Li
Yifu, Cui
Kui, Fu
Haiwang, Liu
author_sort Storozum, Michael J.
title The collapse of the North Song dynasty and the AD 1048–1128 Yellow River floods : geoarchaeological evidence from northern Henan Province, China
title_short The collapse of the North Song dynasty and the AD 1048–1128 Yellow River floods : geoarchaeological evidence from northern Henan Province, China
title_full The collapse of the North Song dynasty and the AD 1048–1128 Yellow River floods : geoarchaeological evidence from northern Henan Province, China
title_fullStr The collapse of the North Song dynasty and the AD 1048–1128 Yellow River floods : geoarchaeological evidence from northern Henan Province, China
title_full_unstemmed The collapse of the North Song dynasty and the AD 1048–1128 Yellow River floods : geoarchaeological evidence from northern Henan Province, China
title_sort collapse of the north song dynasty and the ad 1048–1128 yellow river floods : geoarchaeological evidence from northern henan province, china
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