Multi-proxy reconstruction and visualization of a land-use mosaic
Time-space dimensions of human impact on the landscape in the archaeological rock art park of Campo Lameiro (NW Spain)
Bibliographic Data
The Archaeological Rock Art Park (PAAR) of Campo Lameiro contains one of the most important concentrations of open-air late prehistoric rock art in Europe. We extended and improved the spatial and temporal resolution of the palaeoenvironmental reconstructions with colluvial soil records of pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs). We sought to identify scale effects of the impact of anthropogenic disturbance on the basis of differences between sampling locations, and between proxies of different source area within samples: local scale (soil organic matter, char, NPPs) vs. regional or extra-local scale (land pollen). The results include: (1) the identification of a pre-Neolithic deciduous oak-dominated forest opening around 6.8 ka cal BP, when charcoal and dung indicators suggested that fire was deliberately used to facilitate game habitats (local small-scale event); (2) more profound fire-induced deforestation and heathland expansion between 5.9 and 4.5 ka cal BP, with differentiation of sub-phases based on the balance between grazing and fire activities, possibly related to the management of landscape visibility around the petroglyphs at the end of this phase; (3) a period of lower erosion and fire regime intensities, eutrophication and the formation of a mosaic of leguminous shrubs and pasture (Poaceae, Urtica , Plantago , etc.) during the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age (3.3–2.6 ka cal BP), resembling the traditional slash-and-burn practices of the region; and (4) destruction of remaining tree communities and regional expansion of heathland as a result of fire regime intensification and possibly climate deterioration during the Roman-Germanic transition (after c. 1700 cal BP), part of which coincided with evidence for chestnut silviculture. Finally, we performed a data-based visualization of the palaeolandscapes of these four important phases in the human-environment relationship. This study represents a significant advance after two decades of palaeoenvironmental reconstructions in the PAAR
Charcoal · Colluvium · Deciduous · Deforestation (computer science · Dendrochronology · Ecological succession · Erosion · Palynology · Prehistory · Rock art · Rockfall · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
A review of charcoal analysis as a tool for assessing Quaternary and Tertiary environments
A Burning Story
Pedoanthracological contribution to the study of the evolution of the upper treeline in the Maurienne valley (North French Alps)
A palaeoecological study of an upper late glacial and holocene sequence from “de borchert”, The Netherlands
Expected trends and surprises in the Lateglacial and Holocene vegetation history of the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands
Reconstructing past fire regimes
Coniss
Landnam i Danmarks Stenalder. En pollenanalytisk Undersøgelse over det første Landbrugs Indvirkning paa Vegetationsudviklingen
A palaeoecological study of holocene peat bog sections in Germany and The Netherlands, based on the analysis of pollen, spores and macro- and microscopic remains of fungi, algae, cormophytes and animals
La casa imaginaria
Colluvium
Waterlogged plant remains from the Roman healing spa of Aquae Flaviae (Chaves, Portugal)
Human impact and climate changes—synchronous events and a causal link
Environmental change in NW Iberia between 7000 and 500cal BC
Archaeobotanical data from the Sabor Valley reveal shifting moments in landscape and agriculture in NW Iberia during the Holocene
Palynological evidence for vegetational history in semi-arid areas of the western Mediterranean (Almería, Spain)
Holocene vegetation changes in NW Iberia revealed by anthracological and palynological records from a colluvial soil
Mid- to late-Holocene vegetation history of Greater Exmoor, UK
Middle/Late Bronze Age plant communities and their exploitation in the C vado Basin (NW Portugal) as shown by charcoal analysis
Long-term human impact as registered in an upland pollen profile from the southern Black Forest, south-western Germany
Understanding the plant economy of the westernmost territory of the Roman state through waste
Vegetation in the mountains of northwest Iberia during the last glacial-interglacial transition
Prehistoric land use at an archaeological hot-spot (the rock art park of Campo Lameiro, NW Spain) inferred from charcoal, synanthropic pollen and non-pollen palynomorph proxies
Holocene environmental change in Eastern Spain reconstructed through the multiproxy study of a pedo-sedimentary sequence from Les Alcusses (Valencia, Spain)
The Highlands of Aboboreira (North‐west Portugal)
Economic Differentiation and the Divided Responses of Spanish Galician Farmers to Reforestation of the Commons under Franco
Evolución del paisaje y actividad humana en el área de Monte Penide (Redondela, Pontevedra)
Rock art research as landscape archaeology
Burning the Land
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |