Abundance and morphology of charcoal in sediments provide no evidence of massive slash-and-burn agriculture during the Neolithic Kuahuqiao culture, China

YuanFeng Hu; Bin Zhou; YueHan Lu; JianPing Zhang; SiYu Min; MingZhe Dai; SiYu Xu; Qing Yang; HongBo Zheng

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0237592

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Abundance and morphology of charcoal in sediments provide no evidence of massive slash-and-burn agriculture during the Neolithic Kuahuqiao culture, China

YuanFeng Hu,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Surficial Geochemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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Bin Zhou ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: zhoubinok@163.com

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Surficial Geochemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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YueHan Lu,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Eco-Geochemistry Laboratory, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States of America
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JianPing Zhang,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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SiYu Min,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Surficial Geochemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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MingZhe Dai,

Roles Data curation, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Surficial Geochemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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SiYu Xu,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Surficial Geochemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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Qing Yang,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Yunnan Key Laboratory of Earth System Science, School of Resource, Environment and Earth Science, Yunnan University, Chenggong District, Kunming, China
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HongBo Zheng

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Yunnan Key Laboratory of Earth System Science, School of Resource, Environment and Earth Science, Yunnan University, Chenggong District, Kunming, China
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Abundance and morphology of charcoal in sediments provide no evidence of massive slash-and-burn agriculture during the Neolithic Kuahuqiao culture, China

YuanFeng Hu,
Bin Zhou,
YueHan Lu,
JianPing Zhang,
SiYu Min,
MingZhe Dai,
SiYu Xu,
Qing Yang,
HongBo Zheng

Published: August 19, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237592

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