Research into climate change and the development of human societies has received considerable attention[1,2].By comparing paleoclimate records with major historical events in human soci-ety,previous studies have found that the development of human societies might be closely linked to climate change[3,4].In partic-ular,large-scale hydrological changes caused by climate change have directly affected agricultural productivity and further caused population migration and social conflict.However,many scholars argue that emphasizing the impact of climate change on social development by narrow comparisons is too dogmatic[5],due to strong regional variations in precipitation,and the uncertainty over the range of human activities[6,7].Climate proxy records,especially precipitation records,from a single site can only repre-sent local environmental changes and,therefore,may not repre-sent larger-scale time-series of climate shift[6].Furthermore,the phenomenon of social development has great uncertainty changes spatially with population migration[7].In some cases,social phe-nomena and climate change occurred on different spatial scales.Therefore,it might be too simplistic to impose a climate character-istic pattern from one geographic region upon social phenomena from another based on a single correspondence between climate change and a change in special social characteristic.

Shiwei Jiang;Xin Zhou;Min Ding;Luyao Tu;Xuanqiao Liu;Wuhong Luo;Juzhong Zhang;Yan'an Shen

School of Earth and Space Science,University of Science and Technology of China,Hefei 230026,China;School of Marine Science and Engineering,Nanjing Normal University,Nanjing 210046,China;Department for the History of Science and Scientific Archaeology,University of Science and Technology of China,Hefei 230026,China

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[1]Shiwei Jiang;Xin Zhou;Min Ding;Luyao Tu;Xuanqiao Liu;Wuhong Luo;Juzhong Zhang;Yan'an Shen-.Spatiotemporal variation in precipitation-economy correlations in eastern China over the past 1800 years)[J].科学通报（英文版）,2022(21):2142-2144

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