Environment and landscape management during the middle Neolithic in Southern France : evidences of agro-sylvo-pastoral systems in the middle Rhone valley

Autor: Delhon, Claire, Thiebault, Stephanie, Berger, Jean-François
Přispěvatelé: Centre d'Études Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen-Age (CEPAM), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité (ArScAn), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Quaternary International
Quaternary International, Elsevier, 2009, 200 (1-2), pp.50-65
Quaternary International, 2009, 200 (1-2), pp.50-65
ISSN: 1040-6182
Popis: In : D. Galop, L. Carozza, J. Guilaine and M. Magny (Eds.) Rhythms and causalities of anthropisation dynamic in Europe between 6500 and 500 BC: sociocultural and/or climatic assumptions; International audience; Rescue excavations in the Middle Rhone valley have provided opportunities to develop innovative strategies for the study of palaeoenvironments. These strategies involve sampling and analysis of botanical remains, recovered not only from archaeological sites but also in “off-site” pedosedimentary sequences thought to be poor in botanical remains. Thus, these remains (phytoliths, pedo-charcoal) give access to unexplored depositional contexts, like alluvial plains. Moreover, off-site data are useful because they minimise the hazard of cultural bias (e.g. selection of species during wood gathering). Comparison of data collected in the alluvial plain with data obtained via anthracological analyses of karstic caves and rock-shelters in the hinterland suggests a complex agro-sylvo-pastoral management of the landscape during the Middle Neolithic. We propose a pattern that supposes considerable specialization in use of plains vs. slopes in the landscape, and a strong and continuous human pressure on the vegetation and soils between 4500 and 3500 cal. B.C. Nevertheless, these constraints are not sufficient to explain the persistence of such a system for more than a millennium. Favourable climatic conditions are thought to have been a determining factor in the persistence of an ecologically meta-stable relationship between human societies and their natural environment.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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