A late-Holocene and prehistoric record of environmental change from Lake Waikaremoana, New Zealand
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12266378 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rewi M Newnham (University of Plymouth), Rewi Newnham (0000-0002-6044-8945, University of Plymouth, corresponding author), David J Lowe (0000-0002-2547-6019, University of Waikato), Brent W Matthews (Department of Earth Sciences and Geochronology Research Unit, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand; Centre for Advanced Numerical Computation in Engineering and Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 443-454 |
| Publication date | 1998-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Holocene (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-6836 • E-ISSN: 1477-0911 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1191/095968398672490834 |
| OpenAlex | W2095210058 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 51 |
Further evidence in support of a late pre-European (Polynesian) settlement of New Zealand is pro vided by an 1850-year-long tephropalynological record from a remote region in New Zealand's North Island. The earliest unequivocally anthropogenic forest clearance is estimated from sedimentation rates to have occurred c. 375 14 C years BP (c. ad 1523–1631), although the radiocarbon chronology, shown by tephrochron ology to be erroneous due to hard-water effects, suggested this occurred c. 900 years earlier. Delineation of the anthropogenic era, and the distinction between human activity and other agents of environmental change in the pollen/spore diagram, are supported by cluster analysis and detrended correspondence analysis. Two distinct phases of forest clearance are evident during the pre-European era, reflecting local changes either in population pressure or settlement patterns. We note that the lull between the two phases of forest clearance coincides with the maximum of the ‘Little Ice Age’ within the period c. late ad 1600s to early 1800s
Archaeology · Before Present · Chronology · Climate change · Environmental change · Geography · Holocene · Period (music · Physical geography · Population · Prehistory · Radiocarbon dating · Tephra · Tephrochronology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Demography · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Geology · Oceanography · Paleontology
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
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| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2018 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |