Session 5. Settlement of Asia and historical interactions between humans and monsoon

Thursday, June 18, 2015: 8:30 AM-12:15 PM
Conveners:  Barry Rolett, University of Hawaii, Department of Anthropology, Honolulu, HI, United States and Li Liu, Stanford University, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford, CA, United States
8:30 AM
INTERACTING DRIVERS OF HOLOCENE VEGETATION CHANGE IN THE LOWER YANGTZE RIVER, CHINA (37360)
David Taylor, National University of Singapore, Geography, Singapore, Singapore and Tengwen Long, Trinity College, University of Dublin, School of Natural Sciences, Dublin, Ireland
9:15 AM
Modelling the spread of Agriculture across East Asia: Insights on the Spread of Agriculture to the Tibetan Plateau (37117)
Jade d'Alpoim Guedes, Washington State University, Anthropology, Pullman, WA, United States
9:30 AM
Climate change, subsistence shortage, and population checks in late imperial China (38101)
Harry F. Lee, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
9:45 AM
Mid to Late Holocene climate and sea level changes and its relation to culture in Japan (37392)
Yusuke Yokoyama, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
10:00 AM
Mid-Holocene Climate Change vs. Anthropogenic Influence in the Evolution of Southeast China Forest Landscapes (37329)
Zhuo Zheng1, Barry Rolett2, Yuanfu Yue1, Kangyou Huang1 and Guangqi Zhu1, (1)Sun Yat-Sen University, Department of Earth Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (2)University of Hawaii, Department of Anthropology, Honolulu, HI, United States
10:15 AM
Coffee Break | Poster Presentation
11:00 AM
Monsoon variability and the decline of Angkor: A modeling study of human responses to environmental change (37355)
Jed O Kaplan, University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Lausanne, Switzerland, Kevin J Anchukaitis, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Benjamin Cook, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
11:15 AM
The seasonal predictability of East Asian Summer monsoon (37140)
Bo Huang, Christopher Kadow and Ulrich Cubasch, Institute of Meteorology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
11:30 AM
Plant-Use Patterns in the Central Plain and the Northern Zone of China during the Early and Middle Holocene (37356)
Li Liu, Stanford University, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford, CA, United States
11:45 AM
Catastrophic Flooding and Societal Vulnerability during the Neolithic on the East China Coast (37146)
Zhanghua Wang, East China Normal University, State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, Shanghai, China
12:00 PM
Discussion
 
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