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DOI | 10.1177/0959683615594240 |
Modifying the marsh: Evaluating Early Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherer impacts in the Azraq wetland, Jordan | |
Ramsey, Monica N.1; Jones, Matthew2; Richter, Tobias3; Rosen, Arlene M.1 | |
通讯作者 | Ramsey, Monica N. |
来源期刊 | HOLOCENE
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ISSN | 0959-6836 |
EISSN | 1477-0911 |
出版年 | 2015 |
卷号 | 25期号:10页码:1553-1564 |
英文摘要 | The ecological impacts of human activities have infiltrated the whole of the natural world’ and precipitated calls for a newly defined geological epoch - the Anthropocene. While scholars discuss tipping-points and scale, viewed over the longue duree, it is becoming clear that we have inherited the compounding consequences of a constructed environment with a long history of human landscape modification. By linking phytolith and micro-charcoal evidence from sediments in the Azraq Basin, Jordan, we discuss potential Early Epipaleolithic (23,000-17,400 cal. BP) human-environment interactions in this wetland. Our analyses reveal that during the Last Glacial Maximum, Levantine hunter-gatherers could have had a noticeable and increasing impact on their environment. However, further work needs to be undertaken to assess the range, frequency, intensity, and intentionality of marsh disturbance events. We suggest that the origin of persistent places’ and larger aggregation settlements in the Azraq Basin may have been, in part, facilitated by human-environment interactions in the Early Epipaleolithic that consequently enhanced the economic and, subsequently, social meaning of that landscape. Through their exploitation of the sensitive wetland environment, hunter-gatherers were modifying the marshes and initiating long-term changes to the already dynamic and changing landscape at the close of the Pleistocene. These findings challenge us to further reconsider the way we see early hunter-gatherers in the prehistory of the Levant and in the development of the Anthropocene’. |
英文关键词 | Anthropocene Azraq wetland Early Epipaleolithic human-environment interactions hunter-gatherers phytoliths micro-charcoal |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA ; England ; Denmark |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI ; AHCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000361495300004 |
WOS关键词 | PHRAGMITES-AUSTRALIS ; TIDAL WETLANDS ; CHARCOAL ; PLEISTOCENE ; TRANSITION ; EXPANSION ; ORIGINS ; CLIMATE ; RECORDS ; OASIS |
WOS类目 | Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS研究方向 | Physical Geography ; Geology |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/187672 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Texas Austin, Dept Anthropol, Austin, TX 78712 USA; 2.Univ Nottingham, Sch Geog, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England; 3.Univ Copenhagen, Dept Cross Cultural & Reg Studies, DK-1168 Copenhagen, Denmark |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ramsey, Monica N.,Jones, Matthew,Richter, Tobias,et al. Modifying the marsh: Evaluating Early Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherer impacts in the Azraq wetland, Jordan[J],2015,25(10):1553-1564. |
APA | Ramsey, Monica N.,Jones, Matthew,Richter, Tobias,&Rosen, Arlene M..(2015).Modifying the marsh: Evaluating Early Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherer impacts in the Azraq wetland, Jordan.HOLOCENE,25(10),1553-1564. |
MLA | Ramsey, Monica N.,et al."Modifying the marsh: Evaluating Early Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherer impacts in the Azraq wetland, Jordan".HOLOCENE 25.10(2015):1553-1564. |
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