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Science Bulletin

Volume 63, Issue 20, 30 October 2018, Pages 1324-1327
Science Bulletin

Short Communication
Ancient water wells reveal a prolonged drought in the lower Yellow River area about 2800 years ago

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Shiyong Yu is a distinguished professor at Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, China. He received his Ph.D. degree from Lund University in 2003 and then conducted post-doctoral studies at University of Minnesota Duluth and Tulane University. His research interests focus on environmental and social archaeology, theoretical and quantitative palaeoclimatology, postglacial sea-level changes and geodynamics, and inverse problems in Earth Sciences.

Hui Fang is a Yangtze River distinguished professor of Ministry of Education, China, and director of the Institute of Cultural Heritage, Shandong University. He received his Ph.D. degree from Shandong University in 1994 and then joined the faculty of the Department of Archaeology at Shandong University. His research interests focus on social archaeology, environmental archaeology, Chinese Bronze Age archaeology, and early written records in China.

Fahu Chen is an Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and member of the World Academy of Science, a research professor and director of the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. degree in the field of physical geography in 1990, and became a professor of physical geography and Quaternary sciences in 1994. His research interests lie primarily in the area of Holocene climatic and environmental changes, and human-environment interactions.

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