What was the ecological impact of a Trypillia megasite occupation? Multi-proxy palaeo-environmental investigations at Nebelivka, Ukraine
| Autor: | Andrew R. Millard, Marco Nebbia, Bisserka Gaydarska, James B. Innes, Bruce Albert, John Chapman, Konstantin Krementskiy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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010506 paleontology
Archeology education.field_of_study 060102 archaeology Ecology Population Paleontology Climate change 06 humanities and the arts Plant Science Hiatus 01 natural sciences Natural (archaeology) Sedimentary depositional environment Geography Stage (stratigraphy) 0601 history and archaeology education Sediment core Multi proxy 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Vegetation history and archaeobotany, 2020, Vol.29(1), pp.15-34 [Peer Reviewed Journal] |
| ISSN: | 1617-6278 0939-6314 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00334-019-00730-9 |
| Popis: | Fine-resolution sampling of pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs and microcharcoal as well as sedimentological data in a 6-m sediment core were used to reconstruct both natural conditions and human impacts in the late fifth and early fourth millennia cal bc in the environs of the Nebelivka megasite in Kirovograd Oblast, Central Ukraine. This 238-ha site, dating to the Middle (or BII) Phase of the Trypillia culture, represents one of the first low-density urban establishments in Europe. Despite what was believed to be a sizable population, local human impacts reconstructed from the multi-proxy palaeo-ecological record were moderate in character. There was no positive evidence to indicate a depositional hiatus in the P1 core and no sign of a major ecological impact at any stage in the high-resolution record. The palaeo-ecological record indicates modest settlement agglomeration with less permanent populations rather than permanent populations of tens of thousands of people. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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