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

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

doi:10.1126/science.aal1325

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

Science. 2017 Mar 31;355(6332):1382. doi: 10.1126/science.aal1325.

Authors

Qinglong Wu^{1

2}, Zhijun Zhao^{3

2}, Li Liu⁴, Darryl E Granger⁵, Hui Wang⁶, David J Cohen⁷, Xiaohong Wu⁸, Maolin Ye⁶, Ofer Bar-Yosef⁹, Bin Lu¹⁰, Jin Zhang¹¹, Peizhen Zhang¹², Daoyang Yuan¹³, Wuyun Qi⁶, Linhai Cai¹⁴, Shibiao Bai^{3

2}

Affiliations

¹ School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China. w_wendell@163.com.
² Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographic Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China.
³ School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China.
⁴ Department of East Asia Languages and Cultures, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA.
⁵ Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
⁶ Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100710, China.
⁷ Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, R.O.C.
⁸ School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
⁹ Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 01238, USA.
¹⁰ China Coal Technology & Engineering Group Corp Xian Research Institute, Xi'an 710077, China.
¹¹ Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China.
¹² School of Earth Science and Geological Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China.
¹³ Lanzhou Institute of Seismology, China Earthquake Administration, Lanzhou 730000, China.
¹⁴ Qinghai Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Xining 810007, China.

PMID: 28360294
DOI: 10.1126/science.aal1325

Abstract

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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