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Author : Guanghui Dong,Jade D’Alpoim Guedes
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889762552
Author : Guanghui Dong,Harry F. Lee,Ren Lele
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832535974
Author : Elizabeth A. Scharf
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Limited
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1407305824
Modern ecological studies are unable to examine long-term processes operating on the order of hundreds of years. Because of the limited length of modern and historic records, questions about long-term interactions between people and the environment can only be answered using paleoecological and archaeological information. This volume presents prehistoric records that span over a millennium to examine issues of human paleoecology on the Columbia Plateau of Washington State, USA. Unlike many previous studies, this study (1) quantifies past human population, (2) compares relative inputs of humans, climate, fire, and vegetation using multivariate statistics, (3) examines relationships between variables when leads and lags of different lengths are introduced, and (4) identifies multicollinearity, allowing variables of no unique explanatory value to be eliminated. This study indicates that research on human impacts that focuses on bivariate patterns, such as simple comparisons of coeval human population and fire, can suffer from the problem of equifinality. The multivariate statistical procedures employed in this work avoid these problems, however, and can be used in any study that employs observations taken at equally-spaced time intervals. Additionally, the protocols developed and used in this volume can be easily adapted and applied in new geographical areas-the methods and research design used need not be tied to this particular location.
Author : Samuel Seuru,Benjamin Albouy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031343360
This book offers insight into the relationship between prehistoric and protohistoric human populations and the world around them. It reconstructs key aspects of the palaeoenvironment – from large-scale drivers of environmental conditions, such as climate, to more regional variables such as vegetation cover and faunal communities. The volume underscores how computational archaeology is leading the way in the study of past human-environment interactions across spatial and chronological scales. With the increased availability of high-resolution climate models, agent-based modelling, palaeoecological proxies and the mature use of Geographic Information System in ecological modelling, archaeologists working in interdisciplinary settings are well-positioned to explore the intersection of human systems and environmental affordances and constraints. These methodological advancements provide a better understanding of the role humans played in past ecosystems – both in terms of their impact upon the environment and, in return, the impact of environmental conditions on human systems. They may also allow us to infer past ecological knowledge and land-use patterns that are historically contingent, rather than environmentally determined. This volume gathers contributions that combine reconstructions of past environments and archeological data with a view to exploring their complex interactions at different scales and invites scholars from varying disciplines and backgrounds to present and compare different modelling approaches.
Author : Daniel Contreras
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317450627
The impacts of climate change on human societies, and the roles those societies themselves play in altering their environments, appear in headlines more and more as concern over modern global climate change intensifies. Increasingly, archaeologists and paleoenvironmental scientists are looking to evidence from the human past to shed light on the processes which link environmental and cultural change. Establishing clear contemporaneity and correlation, and then moving beyond correlation to causation, remains as much a theoretical task as a methodological one. This book addresses this challenge by exploring new approaches to human-environment dynamics and confronting the key task of constructing arguments that can link the two in concrete and detailed ways. The contributors include researchers working in a wide variety of regions and time periods, including Mesoamerica, Mongolia, East Africa, the Amazon Basin, and the Island Pacific, among others. Using methodological vignettes from their own research, the contributors explore diverse approaches to human-environment dynamics, illustrating the manifold nature of the subject and suggesting a wide variety of strategies for approaching it. This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in Archaeology, Paleoenvironmental Science, Ecology, and Geology.
Author : Anna Maria Mercuri,Assunta Florenzano
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783039217960
The research studies included in this Special Issue highlight the fundamental contribution of the knowledge of environmental history to conscious and efficient environment conservation and management. The long-term perspective of the dynamics that govern the human–climate ecosystem is becoming one of the main focuses of interest in biological and earth system sciences. Multidisciplinary bio-geo-archaeo investigations into the underlying processes of human impact on the landscape are crucial to envisage possible future scenarios of biosphere responses to global warming and biodiversity losses. This Special Issue seeks to engage an interdisciplinary dialog on the dynamic interactions between nature and society, focusing on long-term environmental data as an essential tool for better-informed landscape management decisions to achieve an equilibrium between conservation and sustainable resource exploitation.
Author : Yaowu Hu,Minoru Yoneda,Kyungcheol Choy
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832542972
Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Earth Sciences and Resources,Committee on the Earth System Context for Hominin Evolution
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309148382
The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it means to be human, including the origins of bipedalism; the emergence of our genus Homo; the first use of stone tools; increases in brain size; and the emergence of Homo sapiens, tools, and culture. The Earth's geological record suggests that some evolutionary events were coincident with substantial changes in African and Eurasian climate, raising the possibility that critical junctures in human evolution and behavioral development may have been affected by the environmental characteristics of the areas where hominins evolved. Understanding Climate's Change on Human Evolution explores the opportunities of using scientific research to improve our understanding of how climate may have helped shape our species. Improved climate records for specific regions will be required before it is possible to evaluate how critical resources for hominins, especially water and vegetation, would have been distributed on the landscape during key intervals of hominin history. Existing records contain substantial temporal gaps. The book's initiatives are presented in two major research themes: first, determining the impacts of climate change and climate variability on human evolution and dispersal; and second, integrating climate modeling, environmental records, and biotic responses. Understanding Climate's Change on Human Evolution suggests a new scientific program for international climate and human evolution studies that involve an exploration initiative to locate new fossil sites and to broaden the geographic and temporal sampling of the fossil and archeological record; a comprehensive and integrative scientific drilling program in lakes, lake bed outcrops, and ocean basins surrounding the regions where hominins evolved and a major investment in climate modeling experiments for key time intervals and regions that are critical to understanding human evolution.
Author : Donald C. Wood
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787432406
Volume 37 of REA features eleven original articles organized in four different sections, each focusing on a specific, popular and significant theme in economic anthropology: production, exchange, vending, and tourism.
Author : Chris Gosden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780198803515
Recent archaeological discoveries from China and central Asia have changed our understanding of how human civilization developed in the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history. In this new edition of his Very Short Introduction, Chris Gosden explores the current theories on the ebb and flow of human cultural variety.
Author : Banshaikupar Lyngdoh Mawlong,Marco Babit Mitri
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443881562
All life forms on earth are complementary to each other; the existence and survival of one depend on the existence of another, and vice versa. However, no life forms are more dependent on others than human beings. Humans’ very survival is conditioned by the existence of the natural environment and the living things within it. One aspect of this interaction is the central and inescapable role played by human culture in defining the human-nature relationship. This book emphasises that environmental conservation is a matter of moral and cultural ethics. It stresses the fact that existing environmental conservation methods need to accommodate traditional environmental knowledge and practices of different indigenous cultures in order to re-build and restore the bond between humans and nature.
Author : Annabel Zander,Birgit Gehlen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783938078266
This volume 5 of the Mesolithic Edition publishes the papers of lectures and posters presented during the conference of the AG Mesolithikum in Wuppertal in March 2017. 30 authors from Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria and Germany publish their latest research on the Mesolithic. A total of 16 contributions offer site analyses, regional and supra-regional studies as well as theoretical and methodological essays. At the end of the volume, the full publication list of the honouree Bernhard Gramsch is published.
Author : Paul A. Delcourt,Hazel R. Delcourt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521662703
Demonstrates the importance of prehistoric human activities in the ecology of eastern North America, and its implications for conservation today.
Author : Mehdi Saqalli,Marc Vander Linden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030127237
This book covers the methodological, epistemological and practical issues of integrating qualitative and socio-anthropological factors into archaeological modeling. This text fills the gap between conceptual modeling (which usually relies on narratives describing the life of a past community) and formalized/computer-based modeling which are usually environmentally-determined. Methods combining both environmental and social issues through niche and agent-based modeling are presented. These methods help to translate data from paleo-environmental and archaeological society life cycles (such as climate and landscape changes) into the local spatial scale. The epistemological discussions will appeal to readers as well as the resilience socio-anthropological factors provide facing climatic fluctuations. Integrating Qualitative and Social Science Factors in Archaeological Modelling will appeal to students and researchers in the field.
Author : Shuangquan Zhang,Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo,Dongju Zhang,Yue Zhang
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889764228