Nonlinear landscape and cultural response to sea-level rise.

Autor: Barnett RL; Geography, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK. r.barnett@exeter.ac.uk.; Département de biologie, chimie et géographie & Centre for Northern Studies (CEN), Université du Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, Québec, Canada., Charman DJ; Geography, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK., Johns C; Heritage Consultant, Sunset, Trewennack, Helston, Cornwall TR13 0PL, UK., Ward SL; Centre for Applied Marine Sciences, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, Menai Bridge, Isle of Anglesey LL59 5AB, UK., Bevan A; UCL Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, UK., Bradley SL; Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield S3 7ND, UK., Camidge K; Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Maritime Archaeology Society, 10 Tolver Place, Penzance TR18 2AD, UK., Fyfe RM; School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK., Gehrels WR; Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5NG, UK., Gehrels MJ; Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5NG, UK., Hatton J; Geography, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK., Khan NS; Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong, James Lee Building, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, Hong Kong., Marshall P; Policy and Evidence, Historic England, Cannon Bridge House, 25 Dowgate Hill, London EC4R 2YA, UK., Maezumi SY; Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE Amsterdam, Netherlands., Mills S; School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, John Percival Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff CF10 3EU, UK., Mulville J; School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, John Percival Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff CF10 3EU, UK., Perez M; Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham TW20 0EX, UK., Roberts HM; Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth SY23 3DB, UK., Scourse JD; Geography, University of Exeter, Peter Lanyon Building, Treliever Road, Penryn TR10 9FE, UK., Shepherd F; Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Historic Environment Record, Cornwall Council, Kresen Kernow, Little Vauxhall, Redruth, Cornwall TR15 1AS, UK., Stevens T; Colossus, Pilot's Retreat, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly TR21 0PB, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Science advances [Sci Adv] 2020 Nov 04; Vol. 6 (45). Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Nov 04 (Print Publication: 2020).
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb6376
Abstrakt: Rising sea levels have been associated with human migration and behavioral shifts throughout prehistory, often with an emphasis on landscape submergence and consequent societal collapse. However, the assumption that future sea-level rise will drive similar adaptive responses is overly simplistic. While the change from land to sea represents a dramatic and permanent shift for preexisting human populations, the process of change is driven by a complex set of physical and cultural processes with long transitional phases of landscape and socioeconomic change. Here, we use reconstructions of prehistoric sea-level rise, paleogeographies, terrestrial landscape change, and human population dynamics to show how the gradual inundation of an island archipelago resulted in decidedly nonlinear landscape and cultural responses to rising sea levels. Interpretation of past and future responses to sea-level change requires a better understanding of local physical and societal contexts to assess plausible human response patterns in the future.
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Databáze: MEDLINE