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DOI	10.1038/s41598-021-89642-1
	Using satellite imagery to evaluate precontact Aboriginal foraging habitats in the Australian Western Desert
	Law, W. Boone; Hiscock, Peter; Ostendorf, Bertram; Lewis, Megan
通讯作者	Law, WB (corresponding author), Univ Adelaide, Sch Biol Sci, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia. ; Law, WB (corresponding author), Univ Adelaide, Environm Inst, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
来源期刊	SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
ISSN	2045-2322
出版年	2021
卷号	11 期号:1
英文摘要	Modern satellite imaging offers radical new insights of the challenges and opportunities confronting traditional Aboriginal ecology and land use in Australia's Western Desert. We model the likely dynamics of historic and precontact desert land use using Earth observation data to identify the distribution of suitable foraging habitats. Suitability was modelled for an ideal environmental scenario, based on satellite observations of maximal water abundance, vegetation greenness, and terrain ruggedness. Our model shows that the highest-ranked foraging habitats do not align with land systems or bioregions that have been used in previous reconstructions of Australian prehistory. We identify impoverished desert areas where unsuitable foraging conditions have likely persisted since early in the last glacial cycle, and in which occupation would always have been rare. These findings lead us to reconsider past patterns of land use and the predicted archaeological signature of earlier desert peoples.
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold, Green Published
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000659131100001
WOS关键词	LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM ; FIRE ; STRATEGIES ; WATER ; KA
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/351712
作者单位	[Law, W. Boone; Ostendorf, Bertram; Lewis, Megan] Univ Adelaide, Sch Biol Sci, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia; [Law, W. Boone; Ostendorf, Bertram; Lewis, Megan] Univ Adelaide, Environm Inst, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia; [Hiscock, Peter] Australian Museum, Geosci & Archaeol, 1 William St, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Law, W. Boone,Hiscock, Peter,Ostendorf, Bertram,et al. Using satellite imagery to evaluate precontact Aboriginal foraging habitats in the Australian Western Desert[J],2021,11(1).
APA	Law, W. Boone,Hiscock, Peter,Ostendorf, Bertram,&Lewis, Megan.(2021).Using satellite imagery to evaluate precontact Aboriginal foraging habitats in the Australian Western Desert.SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,11(1).
MLA	Law, W. Boone,et al."Using satellite imagery to evaluate precontact Aboriginal foraging habitats in the Australian Western Desert".SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 11.1(2021).