Prehistoric Human Activities and Its Environmental Background in Central China: A Case Study in Henan Province

Based on amount change and distribution density of the Neolithic sites in Henan Province, these sites are divided into three types: (1)the Growth type. This type is mainly located in Luoyang Basin where the landform was convenient for millet-farming and settlement-clustering. (2) the Atrophy type. It mainly sits in the Nanyang Basin in which was a transition zone for cultural exchange. And (3) is the Oscillation type. This type distributes around the area of Yinghe-Ruhe River downstream with low land and frequent floods, which affected the amounts of sites in respond to series climate fluctuations in the early and middle Holocene. Comparatively, the unique terrain environment and water networks in the Luoyang Basin heralded the earliest civilized fruit in China and to be the cradle of early cultural transmission.