Modelling Human Environment Interactions In And Beyond Prehistoric Europe

Author : Samuel Seuru,Benjamin Albouy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031343360

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Modelling Human-Environment Interactions in and beyond Prehistoric Europe by Samuel Seuru,Benjamin Albouy Pdf

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 : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317450627

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The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions by Daniel Contreras Pdf

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 : Johannes Müller
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031533143

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Perspectives on Socio-environmental Transformations in Ancient Europe by Johannes Müller Pdf

Author : Elizabeth A. Scharf
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Limited
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1407305824

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Prehistoric Human-environment Interactions by Elizabeth A. Scharf Pdf

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 : Keith Ashley,Nancy Marie White
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813043586

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Late Prehistoric Florida by Keith Ashley,Nancy Marie White Pdf

Prehistoric Florida societies, particularly those of the peninsula, have been largely ignored or given only minor consideration in overviews of the Mississippian southeast (A.D. 1000-1600). This groundbreaking volume lifts the veil of uniformity frequently draped over these regions in the literature, providing the first comprehensive examination of Mississippi-period archaeology in the state. Featuring contributions from some of the most prominent researchers in the field, this collection describes and synthesizes the latest data from excavations throughout Florida. In doing so, it reveals a diverse and vibrant collection of cleared-field maize farmers, part-time gardeners, hunter-gatherers, and coastal and riverine fisher/shellfish collectors who formed a distinctive part of the Mississipian southeast.

Author : Attila Gyucha,William A. Parkinson,Richard W. Yerkes
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781950446216

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Bikeri by Attila Gyucha,William A. Parkinson,Richard W. Yerkes Pdf

The transition from the Neolithic period to the Copper Age in the northern Balkans and the Carpathian Basin was marked by significant changes in material culture, settlement layout and organization, and mortuary practices that indicate fundamental social transformations in the middle of the fifth millennium BC. Prior research into the Late Neolithic of the region focused almost exclusively on fortified 'tell' settlements. The Early Copper Age, by contrast, was known primarily from cemeteries such as the type site of Tiszapolgar-Basatanya. This edited book describes the multi-disciplinary research conducted by the Koros Regional Archaeological Project in southeastern Hungary from 2000-2007. Centered around two Early Copper Age Tiszapolgar culture villages in the Koros Region of the Great Hungarian Plain, Veszto-Bikeri and Korosladany-Bikeri, our research incorporated excavation, surface collection, geophysical survey and soil chemistry to investigate settlement layout and organization. Our results yielded the first extensive, systematically collected datasets from Early Copper Age settlements on the Great Hungarian Plain. The two adjacent villages at Bikeri, located only 70 m apart, were similar in size, and both were protected with fortifications. Relative and absolute dates demonstrate that they were occupied sequentially during the Early Copper Age, from ca. 4600-4200 cal B.C. The excavated assemblages from the sites are strikingly similar, suggesting that both were occupied by the same community. This process of settlement relocation after only a few generations breaks from the longer-lasting settlement pattern that are typical of the Late Neolithic, but other aspects of the villages continue traditions that were established during the preceding period, including the construction of enclosure systems and longhouses.

Author : Salvador Pardo-Gordó,Sean Bergin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030836436

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Simulating Transitions to Agriculture in Prehistory by Salvador Pardo-Gordó,Sean Bergin Pdf

This book highlights new and innovative approaches to archaeological research using computational modeling while focusing on the Neolithic transition around the world. The transformative effect of the spread and adoption of agriculture in prehistory cannot be overstated. Consequently, archaeologists have often focused their research on this transition, hoping to understand both the ecological causes and impacts of this shift, as well as the social motivations and constraints involved. Given the complex interplay of socio-ecological factors, the answers to these types of questions cannot be found using traditional archaeological methods alone. Computational modeling techniques have emerged as an effective approach for better understanding prehistoric data sets and the linkages between social and ecological factors at play during periods of subsistence change. Such techniques include agent-based modeling, Bayesian modeling, GIS modeling of the prehistoric environment, and the modeling of small-scale agriculture. As more archaeological data sets aggregate regarding the transition to agriculture, researchers are often left with few ways to relate these sets to one another. Computational modeling techniques such as those described above represent a critical next step in providing archaeological analyses that are important for understanding human prehistory around the world. Given its scope, this book will appeal to the many interdisciplinary scientists and researchers whose work involves archaeology and computational social science. Chapter “The Spread of Agriculture: Quantitative Laws in Prehistory?” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via springer.com.

Author : Lawrence Guy Straus,Berit Valentin Eriksen,Jon M. Erlandson,David R. Yesner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461311454

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Humans at the End of the Ice Age by Lawrence Guy Straus,Berit Valentin Eriksen,Jon M. Erlandson,David R. Yesner Pdf

Humans at the End of the Ice Age chronicles and explores the significance of the variety of cultural responses to the global environmental changes at the last glacial-interglacial boundary. Contributions address the nature and consequences of the global climate changes accompanying the end of the Pleistocene epoch-detailing the nature, speed, and magnitude of the human adaptations that culminated in the development of food production in many parts of the world. The text is aided by vital maps, chronological tables, and charts.

Author : Sarunas Milisauskas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461507512

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European Prehistory by Sarunas Milisauskas Pdf

Sarunas Milisauskas· 1.1 INTRODUCTION The purpose of this book is four-fold: to introduce English-speaking students and scholars to some of the outstanding archaeological research that has been done in Europe in recent years; to integrate this research into an anthropological frame of reference; to address episodes of culture change such as the transition to farming; the origin of complex societies, and the origin of urbanism, and to provide an overview of European prehistory from the earliest appearance of humans to the rise of the Roman empire. In 1978, the Academic Press published my book European Prehistory which, typically for that period, emphasized cultural evolution, culture process, technology, environment, and economy. To produce a new version and an up- to-date prehistory of Europe, I have invited contributions from specialists in the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. Thus while this version of European Prehistory is a new book, however, it still incorporates some data from the 1978 version, particularly in The Present Environment and Neolithic chapters. Like its predecessor, this edition is structured around selected general topics, such as technology, trade, settlement, warfare, and ritual.

Author : Graeme Barker,Clive Gamble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Agriculture, Prehistoric
ISBN : UOM:39015010393554

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Beyond Domestication in Prehistoric Europe by Graeme Barker,Clive Gamble Pdf

Author : Thomas Knopf,Werner Steinhaus,Shin’ya FUKUNAGA
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789690088

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Burial Mounds in Europe and Japan by Thomas Knopf,Werner Steinhaus,Shin’ya FUKUNAGA Pdf

This book brings together specialists of the European Bronze and Iron Age and the Japanese Yayoi and Kofun periods for the first time to discuss burial mounds in a comparative context. The book aims to strengthen knowledge of Japanese archaeology in Europe and vice versa.

Author : Marco Madella,Carla Lancelotti,Manon Savard
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816527106

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Ancient Plants and People by Marco Madella,Carla Lancelotti,Manon Savard Pdf

Ancient Plants and People is a timely discussion of the global perspectives on archaeobotany and the rich harvest of knowledge it yields. Contributors examine the importance of plants to human culture over time and geographic regions and what it teaches of humans, their culture, and their landscapes.

Author : Gabriel Wurzer,Kerstin Kowarik,Hans Reschreiter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319342827

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Agent-based Modeling and Simulation in Archaeology by Gabriel Wurzer,Kerstin Kowarik,Hans Reschreiter Pdf

Archaeology has been historically reluctant to embrace the subject of agent-based simulation, since it was seen as being used to "re-enact" and "visualize" possible scenarios for a wider (generally non-scientific) audience, based on scarce and fuzzy data. Furthermore, modeling "in exact terms" and programming as a means for producing agent-based simulations were simply beyond the field of the social sciences. This situation has changed quite drastically with the advent of the internet age: Data, it seems, is now ubiquitous. Researchers have switched from simply collecting data to filtering, selecting and deriving insights in a cybernetic manner. Agent-based simulation is one of the tools used to glean information from highly complex excavation sites according to formalized models, capturing essential properties in a highly abstract and yet spatial manner. As such, the goal of this book is to present an overview of techniques used and work conducted in that field, drawing on the experience of practitioners.

Author : Hans Baer,Merrill Singer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317817673

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The Anthropology of Climate Change by Hans Baer,Merrill Singer Pdf

In addressing the urgent questions raised by climate change, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of climate change guided by a critical political ecological framework. It argues that anthropologists must significantly expand their focus on climate change and their contributions to responding to climate change as a grave risk to humanity. The book presents a human socioecological framework for conceptualizing climate change. It examines the emergence and slow maturation of the anthropology of climate change; reviews the historic foundations for this work in the archaeology of climate change; and presents three alternative contemporary theoretical perspectives in the anthropology of climate change. The book synthesizes anthropological work and perspectives on climate change in the form of case studies in various regions of the world revealing the nature of global climate change as constituting multiple and somewhat diverse changes in local settings. It explores the applied anthropology of climate change in terms of the ways anthropologists are contributing to climate policy, working with communities on climate change issues, as well as within the climate movement both internationally and nationally. Finally it provides an overview of what other the social sciences are saying about climate change and explores ways that the anthropology of climate change can interface with sociology, political science, and human geography in order to create an integrated social science of climate change. This book gives researchers and students in Environmental Anthropology, Climate Change, Human Geography, and Sociology, a novel framework for understanding climate change that emphasizes human socioecological interactions.

Author : Carole L. Crumley
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0933452853

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Historical Ecology by Carole L. Crumley Pdf

Environmental change is one of the most pressing problems facing the world community. In this volume, the authors take a critical step toward establishing a new environmental science by deconstructing the traditional culture/nature dichotomy and placing human/environmental interaction at the center of any new attempts to deal with global environmental change. Topics include the theorization of ecology, evolutionary theory, evaluating the nature/culture binary in practice, global climate and regional diversity, historical transformations in the landscapes of eastern Africa, extinction in Greenland, ecology in ancient Egypt, ecological aspects of encounters between agropastoral and agricultural peoples, archaeology and environmentalism, and the role of history in ecological research.