Modelling Human-Environment Interactions in and Beyond Prehistoric Europe / Samuel Seuru, Benjamin Albouy, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Seuru, Samuel, editor.

Albouy, Benjamin, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Themes in contemporary archaeology

Themes in contemporary archaeology. 2730-7441

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prehistoric peoples--Europe.

Prehistoric peoples.

Antiquities, Prehistoric--Europe.

Antiquities, Prehistoric.

Human ecology--Europe--History--To 1500.

Human ecology.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Europe.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, [2023]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Contents

Editors and Contributors

About the Editors

Contributors

Part I: "Top-Down" Approaches

Refloating the Aegean Lost Dryland: An Affordance-Based GIS Approach to Explore the Interaction Between Hominins and the Palaeolandscape

1 Introduction

2 An Affordance-Based Methodological Approach to Explore Hominin-Landscape Interaction

3 Engaging the Palaeolandscape - The Complex Topography Concept (STEP 2 Component 1)

4 Engaging the Hominin Factor - The Concept of Affordances (STEP 2 Component 2)

5 Adding More Affordance Variables: The Navigation Potential Over the Aegean Palaeolandscape

6 Results and Discussion - Humanising the Past Landscape

6.1 The Northern Aegean Continental Shelf

6.2 The Southern Part of the Cycladic Plateau and Its Westward Extension to the Greek Mainland

6.3 The Sperchios River Basin and the North Euboea Gulf (Central Greece)

6.4 The Greek Islands Along the Aegean Coasts of Turkey

7 Concluding Remarks

References

The Last of Them: Investigating the Palaeogeography of the Last Neanderthals in Europe (Marine Isotopic Stage 3)

1 Introduction

1.1 The Specific Climatic Context of MIS 3

1.2 New Tools, New Interpretive Framework and New Data Resolutions

2 Material and Methods

2.1 Sample

2.1.1 Spatio-temporal Boundaries

2.1.2 Elimination of Transitional Industries

2.2 Data Compilation

2.3 Site Locations

2.4 Data Pre-selection

2.5 Chronological Modelling

2.6 Data Scoring and Uncertainty Estimates

2.7 Mapping the Distribution of GS/GI Sites

3 Results

3.1 General Dataset

3.2 Data Selection

3.3 Data Distribution: Contrasting GS and GI

4 Discussion

4.1 Testing the Impact of Research and Method Bias on Data Distribution

4.2 Chronological Distribution of Data

4.3 Spatial Distribution of Data

4.4 Archaeological Versus Biological Data

4.5 The Importance of a Taphonomic Perspective: Defining a Taphonomy of Archaeological Data

5 Conclusions

Appendix

Going New Places: Dispersal and Establishment of the Aurignacian Technocomplex in Europe During the Marine Isotopic Stage 3 (MIS 3)

1.1 First AMHs in Europe and the Aurignacian Technocomplex

2 Materials and Methods

2.1 The Archaeological Database

2.2 Palaeoenvironmental Data

2.3 Age Modelling Using GICC05 Events

2.4 Layers Conditions Classification and Reliability Score

3.1 Classification

3.2 Chronology

4 Discussion

4.1 The Aurignacian from Start to finish

4.2 Palaeogeography of the Aurignacian Technocomplex

4.3 Impacts of MIS 3 Millennial-Scale Variations on the AMH Spatial Behaviour

4.4 Zones of Interest

5 Conclusion

The Impact of Magdalenian Hunter-Gatherers on Their Environment

1 Introduction

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783031343353

3031343352

OCLC:

1377696119

Publisher Number:

99995325416