Pollen, herds, jasper and copper mines
Economic and environmental changes during the 4th and 3rd millennia BC in Liguria (NW Italy)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12654124 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea De Pascale (0000-0003-4963-340X, corresponding author), Roberto Maggi (0009-0004-0162-5851), Carlo Montanari (0000-0002-0568-8380), Diego Moreno (0000-0002-8666-4590) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 115-124 |
| Publication date | 2006-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4103 • E-ISSN: 1749-6314 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/174963106x97098 |
| OpenAlex | W2135021566 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 7 |
This paper reviews the interdisciplinary projects carried out during the last 25 years in eastern Liguria (NW Italy). These have brought together archaeologists, geographers, palaeobotanists and historians in a series of research exercises based upon many different types of evidence: archaeological excavation and survey, ecological analysis of existing landscapes, geoarchaeological, anthracological and palynological analyses. Taken together, the results of this research provide a rich source of material for developing an understanding of how humans in eastern Liguria have interacted with the landscape through time. The influence of human activity on the vegetation of Liguria, in the Late Neolithic, Copper Age (Chalcolithic) and Bronze Age, is part of a complex system of agricultural activity mainly involving transhumant pastoralism. Several peat sites and buried soils have supplied the palaeoecological data that indicate the considerable effect of this economic activity on the landscape: a reduction in fir woodland, a decrease in arboreal species and an increase in the diversity of light demanding herbaceous and fern taxa. The environmental and economic changes during the 4th and 3rd millennia BC in eastern Liguria are also testified to by the starting of quarrying and mining activities to obtain both red jasper and copper
Archaeology · Bronze Age · Chalcolithic · Geoarchaeology · Geography · Paleobotany · Palynology · Peat · Plucking · Pollen · Vegetation (pathology · Woodland · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Ecology
Multi-proxy stable isotope analyses of dentine microsections reveal diachronic changes in life history adaptations, mobility, and tuberculosis-induced wasting in prehistoric Liguria (Finale Ligure, Italy, northwestern Mediterranean)
A palynological contribution to the environmental archaeology of a Mediterranean mountain wetland (North West Apennines, Italy)
The Holocene landscape history of the NW Italian coasts
Cultural ecology
Pollen analysis of a soil sample associated with a Greek cult statue as a guide to provenance
| Citations per year | 0.26 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2020 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |