Modelling Human-Environment Interactions in and beyond Prehistoric Europe
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This book offers insight into the relationship between prehistoric and protohistoric human populations and the world around them. It reconstructs key aspects of the palaeoenvironment – from large-scale drivers of environmental conditions, such as climate, to more regional variables such as vegetation cover and faunal communities. The volume underscores how computational archaeology is leading the way in the study of past human-environment interactions across spatial and chronological scales.
With the increased availability of high-resolution climate models, agent-based modelling, palaeoecological proxies and the mature use of Geographic Information System in ecological modelling, archaeologists working in interdisciplinary settings are well-positioned to explore the intersection of human systems and environmental affordances and constraints. These methodological advancements provide a better understanding of the role humans played in past ecosystems – both in terms of their impact upon the environment and, in return, the impact of environmental conditions on human systems. They may also allow us to infer past ecological knowledge and land-use patterns that are historically contingent, rather than environmentally determined. This volume gathers contributions that combine reconstructions of past environments and archeological data with a view to exploring their complex interactions at different scales and invites scholars from varying disciplines and backgrounds to present and compare different modelling approaches.
This book offers insight into the relationship between prehistoric and protohistoric human populations and the world around them. It reconstructs key aspects of the palaeoenvironment – from large-scale drivers of environmental conditions, such as climate, to more regional variables such as vegetation cover and faunal communities. The volume underscores how computational archaeology is leading the way in the study of past human-environment interactions across spatial and chronological scales.
With the increased availability of high-resolution climate models, agent-based modelling, palaeoecological proxies and the mature use of Geographic Information System in ecological modelling, archaeologists working in interdisciplinary settings are well-positioned to explore the intersection of human systems and environmental affordances and constraints. These methodological advancements provide a better understanding of the role humans played in past ecosystems – both in terms of their impact upon the environment and, in return, the impact of environmental conditions on human systems. They may also allow us to infer past ecological knowledge and land-use patterns that are historically contingent, rather than environmentally determined. This volume gathers contributions that combine reconstructions of past environments and archeological data with a view to exploring their complex interactions at different scales and invites scholars from varying disciplines and backgrounds to present and compare different modelling approaches.
Offers insight into the relationship between prehistoric and protohistoric human populations and the world around them Conveys how measuring the importance of environmental services for people in the past are difficult tasks Demonstrates the role of computational archaeology in the study of past human-environment interactions
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Samuel Seuru
Themen in »Modelling Human-Environment Interactions in and beyond Prehistoric Europe«
Aegean Lost Dryland Affordance-Based GIS Approach Hominins Palaeolandscape paleogeography of the last Neanderthals Europe Late Glacial re-peopling of northern Europe paleoclimate modeling Modeling dust emissions NorthWestern France Last Glacial Maximum final palaeolithic Schleswig-Holstein Modeling cultural landscape evolution early farmers at the Great Eurasian Steppe fringe Middle Southern Buh River catchment in VI-IV mil. BC actor-network modeling framework in Archeology European rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus in human diet land-use in early Bronze age at Hacilar Southwest Anatolia resource exploitation strategies in Iron Age