Socio-Ecological Contingencies with Climate Changes over the Prehistory in the Mediterranean Iberia
International audience; We conducted palynological, sedimentological, and chronological analyses of a coastal sediment sequence to investigate landscape evolution and agropastoral practices in the Nao Cap region (Spain, Western Mediterranean) since the Holocene. The results allowed for a reconstruction of vegetation, fire, and erosion dynamics in the area, implicating the role of fire in vegetation turnover at 5300 (mesophilous forests replaced by sclerophyllous scrubs) and at 3200 calibrated before present (cal. BP) (more xerophytics). Cereal cultivation was apparent from the beginning of the record, during the Mid-Neolithic period. From 5300 to 3800 cal. BP, long-lasting soil erosion was …
Prehistoric palaeodemographics and regional land cover change in eastern Iberia
Much attention has been placed on the drivers of vegetation change on the Iberian Peninsula. While climate plays a key role in determining the species pools within different regions and exerts a strong influence on broad vegetation patterning, the role of humans, particularly during prehistory, is less clear. The aim of this paper is to assess the influence of prehistoric population change on shaping vegetation patterns in eastern Iberia and the Balearic Islands between the start of the Neolithic and the late Bronze Age. In all, 3385 radiocarbon dates have been compiled across the study area to provide a palaeodemographic proxy (radiocarbon summed probability distributions (SPDs)). Modelled…
FIGURE_SI2_nmds_lhol_labelled – Supplemental material for Prehistoric palaeodemographics and regional land cover change in eastern Iberia
Supplemental material, FIGURE_SI2_nmds_lhol_labelled for Prehistoric palaeodemographics and regional land cover change in eastern Iberia by Ralph M Fyfe, Jessie Woodbridge, Alessio Palmisano, Andrew Bevan, Stephen Shennan, Francesc Burjachs, Borja Legarra Herrero, Oreto García Puchol Puchol, José-Sebastián Carrión, Jordi Revelles and C Neil Roberts in The Holocene
FIGURE_SI1_nmds_ehol_labelled – Supplemental material for Prehistoric palaeodemographics and regional land cover change in eastern Iberia
Supplemental material, FIGURE_SI1_nmds_ehol_labelled for Prehistoric palaeodemographics and regional land cover change in eastern Iberia by Ralph M Fyfe, Jessie Woodbridge, Alessio Palmisano, Andrew Bevan, Stephen Shennan, Francesc Burjachs, Borja Legarra Herrero, Oreto García Puchol Puchol, José-Sebastián Carrión, Jordi Revelles and C Neil Roberts in The Holocene