title: Response to Comments on "Outburst flood at 1920 BCE supports historicity of China's Great Flood and the Xia dynasty".
abstract: Wuet al, Han, and Huanget alquestion 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.
authors.affiliation: School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China. w_wendell@163.com.|Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographic Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China.
authors.forename: Qinglong
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-4275-3954
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China.|Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographic Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China.
authors.forename: Zhijun
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-3587-5555
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: Department of East Asia Languages and Cultures, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA.
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
authors.forename: Darryl E
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-9894-8478
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Granger
authors.affiliation: Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100710, China.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, R.O.C.
authors.forename: David J
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-5973-8566
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.affiliation: School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
authors.forename: Xiaohong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100710, China.
authors.forename: Maolin
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-9223-2439
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 01238, USA.
authors.forename: Ofer
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bar-Yosef
authors.affiliation: China Coal Technology & Engineering Group Corp Xian Research Institute, Xi'an 710077, China.
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China.
authors.forename: Jin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: School of Earth Science and Geological Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China.
authors.forename: Peizhen
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-4172-3072
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Lanzhou Institute of Seismology, China Earthquake Administration, Lanzhou 730000, China.
authors.forename: Daoyang
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.affiliation: Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100710, China.
authors.forename: Wuyun
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.affiliation: Qinghai Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Xining 810007, China.
authors.forename: Linhai
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.affiliation: School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China.|Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographic Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China.
authors.forename: Shibiao
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-1699-0825
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bai