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DOI10.1177/0959683615594240
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
ISSN0959-6836
EISSN1477-0911
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
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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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