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Take a look at China's sunken courtyard houses, where people traditionally lived in pit homes carved into the ground
Also called "dikengyuan" in Mandarin, which means "pit courtyards," the homes are a type of cave dwelling ("yaodong") commonly found in the Loess Plateau in northern China. "Academic literature ...
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Chinese Loess Plateau (IMAGE)
The East Asian summer monsoon and desertification in Eurasia is driven by fluctuating Northern Hemisphere ice volume and global sea level during the Ice Age, as shown in a study published in ...
Collapse of Ming Dynasty actually began with Wanli megadrought, tree-ring research shows
from 1556 CE to 2015 CE in the southwest Chinese Loess Plateau. The study is published in the journal Palaeogeography, ...
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Mausoleums of the Yellow Emperor
Huangling County is located on the Loess Plateau of northwest China in Shaanxi Province. It is known for the Yellow Emperor s tomb, hence the name Huangling of the county. Yellow Emperor is the ...
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Onwards and upwards
A team led by IGGCAS researcher, Tungsheng Liu, a CAS member, has traced the history of aeolian dust sediments in northern China to tens of millions years ago by surveying the Loess Plateau and ...
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Did rapid climate changes trigger social unrest in China over past 4,000 years?
The team then turned to Chinese history to discover how the records matched with the episodes of unrest that marked today's Shanxi province on the Loess Plateau, a "transition zone" between the ...