Yong Wu's research while affiliated with Xinjiang Finance & Economy Institute and other places

... Burials and a single Han-style kiln were excavated in Area B (Tian et al., 2018. Sheng et al. (2020) subsequently characterized Shichengzi as a "melting pot" of Han and non-Han culture, using archaeobotanical evidence to demonstrate a local adaptation to the Tianshan Mountain settings against relatively amenable climactic conditions circa 2000-1700 BP (Sheng et al., 2021). ...

... The Tarim Basin (Figure 1a) is characterized by a typical desertoasis landscape , and is the largest closed basin in China. It is bounded by the Tianshan Mountains, Pamir Plateau, Kunlun Mountains and Altyn-Tagh Mountains, along its Li et al. (2021a). Blue lines are current rivers including episodic and nearpermanent; the white triangle is the location of the studied sedimentary section (YC, Figure 1b); black circles are the sites of published palaeoclimate records referenced herein; white circles are Xiaohe cultural sites. ...

... Previous efforts to reconstruct the regional palaeoenvironment have primarily relied on low-resolution examination of the Lake Lop Nur sediments and the findings have been inconclusive. Several palaeoenvironmental reconstructions have been produced (Luo et al., 2009;Jia et al., 2017;Liu et al., 2016;Ma et al., 2008;Qin et al., 2012); however, there are substantial discrepancies among them due to depositional discontinuities (Qin et al., 2012;Shao et al., 2012) and variations in age quality control (Jia et al., 2017;Li et al., 2021b;Zhang et al., 2012). Interpretations of Holocene hydrothermal regimes (e.g. ...

... The quantitative reconstruction of crop ratios permits further insight into the agricultural strategies of human groups (Sheng et al., 2020). We have used, with one minor modification, the quantitative method for intact cereal yield percentages introduced in Zhou et al. (2016). ...

... From this point of view, this article believes that the land reclamation culture refers to a culture system of the unique connotation that developed from series culture collision, fusion, and vicissitude processes. The processes went through a long period ever since the central government of the Han Dynasty carried out the agricultural settlement practice in Xinjiang (Sheng et al., 2020). Within this period, land reclamation has been acted as a culture media that enables agricultural settlement migrants to bring in, communicate, and adapt their home culture into Xinjiang's physical and societal environment. ...

... Among these factors, vegetation coverage is critical for oasis development and agricultural land, forest, shrubland, grassland and wet meadow are regarded as components of the modern oasis landscape in northwestern China (Yang et al., 2003;Jia and Ci, 2003). In addition, sediment accumulation in oases has attracted increasing interest in the context of the late Quaternary environmental evolution of specific oasis sites in northwestern China (Jin et al., 1994;Zhou et al., 1996;Feng et al., 1999;Zhong et al., 2001;Li et al., 2002;Yang et al., 2006b;An et al., 2020;Li et al., 2019;Lin et al., 2020;Shu et al., 2018;Zhang et al., 2021). However, there is a lack of systematic characterization of oasis deposits, and there is a lack of a consensus regarding their nature: they have been defined as humic soil (Zhou et al., 1996), silty soil (Li et al., 2002), peat (Zhong et al., 2001) and fluvial-lacustrine facies (Yang et al., 2006b). ...

... large flaked stone) (Huang et al., 1998), with human occupation in the eastern basin (i.e. Lop Nur) dated to ~13 kyr, based on a buried grinding stone (Li et al., 2018a) -considerably earlier than the previously accepted estimate of ~7.0-7.6 kyr in the western Tarim Basin (Han et al., 2014). Multi-cultural Bronze Age remains have been discovered in the Tarim Basin during the past few decades (Shao, 2018): for example, at Xiaohe Cemetery (Yidilisi et al., 2019), the Xintala site (Zhao et al., 2013), and Xiabandi Cemetery . ...

... warm-humid, cold-humid, cold-arid) from Lop Nur are also contradictory (Luo et al., 2009;Jia et al., 2017). Rapid hydrological shifts in the late-Holocene are only revealed by analysis of driftwood from the west bank of Lop Nur (Li et al., 2018b), but these were not evident in the lowresolution lacustrine records (Liu et al., 2016). Data from neighbouring areas (e.g. the upstream of Kongque River) suggest a "westerly pattern" of climatic change, with a dry early Holocene and a gradual wetting of the climate during the middle-late Holocene (Huang et al., 2009); however, the sediments of Lop Nur indicate that the climate was humid during the early Holocene and that the middle Holocene was wetter still (Jia et al., 2017). ...

... In addition, the people of the city faced the high risk of war due to its geographical location, which was another important reason for the abandonment of the city. There are many archaeological sites available around the world, and many of them are caused by geomorphological processes such as erosion and landform evolution [42][43][44][45] . Thus, the idea of using archaeological city ruins as evidence can also be used for landform evolution modelling in other places. ...