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Long-Term Socioecology and Contingent Landscapes
Steven SchmichLluis MolinaJ. Emili AuraJoan BernabeuOreto GarciaC. Michael Bartonsubject
Mediterranean climateArcheologyGeographyLand useNatural processesAgriculturebusiness.industryEcologyEcology (disciplines)ForagingSocioecologybusinessTerm (time)description
Long-term social and natural processes reciprocally interact in spatially and temporally dynamic socioecosystems. We describe an integrated program of patch-based survey and subsurface testing aimed at studying long-term socioecology, focusing especially on the transition from foraging to farming in Mediterranean Spain. Measures of landuse ubiquity, intensity, dispersion, and persistence trace late-Pleistocene through mid-Holocene socioecological trajectories in four upland valleys. Although farming replaced foraging in all four valleys, the timing and nature of this transition varied because of cumulative interactions between social and natural processes. These processes continue to structure modern landscapes and landuse in these valleys.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-09-01 | Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory |