Modelling Human-Environment Interactions in and beyond Prehistoric Europe (eBook)

Samuel Seuru, Benjamin Albouy (Herausgeber)

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2023 | 2023
XVIII, 160 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-34336-0 (ISBN)

Infos

 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.

Samuel Seuru is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology, University of Montreal, Canada. His research explores small game exploitation and human diet breadth during the Upper Paleolithic in the Iberian Peninsula, with the aid of Agent-Based Modelling.

 

Benjamin Albouy is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology, University of Montreal, Canada. His research explores the relationship between Neanderthals and their environment. In his doctoral thesis, he is studying the impact of abrupt climate change on the last Neanderthal populations in Europe.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.8.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Themes in Contemporary Archaeology
• Reihe/Serie: Themes in Contemporary Archaeology
• Zusatzinfo: XVIII, 160 p. 1 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: actor-network modeling framework in Archeology • Aegean Lost Dryland • Affordance-Based GIS Approach Hominins Palaeolandscape • early farmers at the Great Eurasian Steppe fringe • environmental determinism Agent-Based Model settlement choice • European rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus in human diet • final palaeolithic Schleswig-Holstein • land-use in early Bronze age at Hacilar Southwest Anatolia • Late Glacial re-peopling of northern Europe • Middle Southern Buh River catchment in VI-IV mil. BC • Modeling cultural landscape evolution • Modeling dust emissions • NorthWestern France Last Glacial Maximum • paleoclimate modeling • paleogeography of the last Neanderthals Europe • resource exploitation strategies Hellenistic communities • resource exploitation strategies in Iron Age
• ISBN-10: 3-031-34336-0 / 3031343360
• ISBN-13: 978-3-031-34336-0 / 9783031343360