Response to Comments on "Outburst flood at 1920 BCE supports historicity of China's Great Flood and the Xia dynasty".

نویسندگان

  • Qinglong Wu
  • Zhijun Zhao
  • Li Liu
  • Darryl E Granger
  • Hui Wang
  • David J Cohen
  • Xiaohong Wu
  • Maolin Ye
  • Ofer Bar-Yosef
  • Bin Lu
  • Jin Zhang
  • Peizhen Zhang
  • Daoyang Yuan
  • Wuyun Qi
  • Linhai Cai
  • Shibiao Bai
چکیده

Wu et al, Han, and Huang et al question our reconstruction of a large outburst flood and its possible relationship to China's Great Flood and the Xia dynasty. Here, we clarify misconceptions concerning geologic evidence of the flood, its timing and magnitude, and the complex social-cultural response. We also further discuss how this flood may be related to ancient accounts of the Great Flood and origins of the Xia dynasty.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Science

دوره 355 6332  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2017