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Brent R. Whitford - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Characterizing the cultural evolutionary process from eco-cultural niche models: niche construction during the Neolithic of the Struma River Valley (c. 6200–4900 BC)
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2019Co-Authors: Brent R. WhitfordAbstract:The Neolithic Period in the Struma River Valley—Southwest Bulgaria and Northern Greece—represents one of the earliest instances in which agricultural practices were transferred from the Mediterranean to a transitional Continental type climate. Throughout the Neolithic Period, the region is also marked by significant episodes of cultural change. Was the cultural evolutionary process in the region then influenced by differences in the ecological setting? According to niche construction theory (NCT), culture is not only impacted by ecology but can modify the ecological setting as well, suggesting that the evolutionary process can also be directed in that regard. As such, the relationship between culture and ecology is reciprocal. In order to assess diachronic change in the reciprocal relationship between culture and ecology during the Neolithic Period of the Struma River Valley and characterize the cultural evolutionary process, I utilize a procedure based on eco-cultural niche modeling. The results of the eco-cultural niche modeling procedure effectively demonstrate that shifts in agricultural subsistence practices first accommodated an expansion of settlement into new ecological settings. Following this expansion of settlement into new ecological settings, more significant episodes of cultural diversification ensued and eventually contributed toward the development of at least three archeological populations, each of which is confined to a relatively distinct eco-cultural niche within the valley. Therefore, I conclude that differences in the ecological setting did play a role in the cultural evolutionary process, however, that such differences were driven by prior changes in subsistence practices best characterized as niche construction events.
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Correction to: Characterizing the cultural evolutionary process from eco-cultural niche models: niche construction during the Neolithic of the Struma River Valley (c. 6200–4900 BC)
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2018Co-Authors: Brent R. WhitfordAbstract:The Neolithic Period in the Struma River Valley—Southwest Bulgaria and Northern Greece—represents one of the earliest instances in which agricultural practices were transferred from the Mediterranean to a transitional Continental type climate. Throughout the Neolithic Period, the region is also marked by significant episodes of cultural change. Was the cultural evolutionary process in the region then influenced by differences in the ecological setting? According to niche construction theory (NCT), culture is not only impacted by ecology but can modify the ecological setting as well, suggesting that the evolutionary process can also be directed in that regard. As such, the relationship between culture and ecology is reciprocal. In order to assess diachronic change in the reciprocal relationship between culture and ecology during the Neolithic Period of the Struma River Valley and characterize the cultural evolutionary process, I utilize a procedure based on eco-cultural niche modeling. The results of the eco-cultural niche modeling procedure effectively demonstrate that shifts in agricultural subsistence practices first accommodated an expansion of settlement into new ecological settings. Following this expansion of settlement into new ecological settings, more significant episodes of cultural diversification ensued and eventually contributed toward the development of at least three archeological populations, each of which is confined to a relatively distinct eco-cultural niche within the valley. Therefore, I conclude that differences in the ecological setting did play a role in the cultural evolutionary process, however, that such differences were driven by prior changes in subsistence practices best characterized as niche construction events.
K. Albanakis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Integrated GIS, remote sensing and geomorphologic approaches for the reconstruction of the landscape habitation of Thessaly during the Neolithic Period
Journal of Archaeological Science, 2011Co-Authors: Dimitrios D. Alexakis, Apostolos Sarris, Theodoros Astaras, K. AlbanakisAbstract:The aim of this study is to manifest the contribution of integrated approaches such as GIS, geomorphology, remote sensing and DEM analysis for the detection of Neolithic settlements, the modeling of habitation and the reconstruction of Neolithic landscape in the area of Thessaly. Thessaly is a region of low relief in central Greece where hundreds of Neolithic settlements called magoules were established from Early Neolithic Period until Bronze Age. In this study field survey, statistical analysis of coring data, spatial analysis of environmental parameters in GIS and image processing techniques of satellite images and DEMs were carried out to contribute to the detection of the Neolithic settlements and the reconstruction of Neolithic landscape.
Dimitrios D. Alexakis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Integrated GIS, remote sensing and geomorphologic approaches for the reconstruction of the landscape habitation of Thessaly during the Neolithic Period
Journal of Archaeological Science, 2011Co-Authors: Dimitrios D. Alexakis, Apostolos Sarris, Theodoros Astaras, K. AlbanakisAbstract:The aim of this study is to manifest the contribution of integrated approaches such as GIS, geomorphology, remote sensing and DEM analysis for the detection of Neolithic settlements, the modeling of habitation and the reconstruction of Neolithic landscape in the area of Thessaly. Thessaly is a region of low relief in central Greece where hundreds of Neolithic settlements called magoules were established from Early Neolithic Period until Bronze Age. In this study field survey, statistical analysis of coring data, spatial analysis of environmental parameters in GIS and image processing techniques of satellite images and DEMs were carried out to contribute to the detection of the Neolithic settlements and the reconstruction of Neolithic landscape.
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Reconstructing the Neolithic Landscape of Thessaly through a GIS and Geological Approach
2008Co-Authors: Dimitrios D. Alexakis, Apostolos Sarris, Theodoros Astaras, Kostas VouzaxakisAbstract:Neolithic Thessaly has been traditionally studied to understand human partitioning and territoriality of the landscape by non-hierarchical human groups. Thessaly is a region of low relief with extensive coastline and a great alluvial plain, where hundreds of Neolithic settlements/tells called magoules were established from the Early Neolithic Period until the Bronze Age. Archaeological data was collected forming a corpus of surveyed and excavated sites and settlements, differentiated by type, size or time-scale of occupation. Reconstruction of the Neolithic landscape was based on synthesis of geological maps, records of stratigraphic data collected from a total of 400 boreholes and the indexing of past studies relative to the geomorphological changes that have affected Neolithic Thessaly from Holocene until today. These were spatially and statistically processed to estimate the amount of alluvial deposits and their distribution on the Thessalian plain from the Early Neolithic Period to the present.
Matteo Vacchi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Coastal landscape evolution of Corsica island (W. Mediterranean): palaeoenvironments, vegetation history and human impacts since the early Neolithic Period
Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019Co-Authors: Jordi Revelles, Matthieu Ghilardi, Veronica Rossi, Andrés Currás, Oriol López-bultó, Gaël Brkojewitsch, Matteo VacchiAbstract:A multi-proxy investigation of sediment cores has enabled us to reconstruct the coastal environmental evolution of East-Central Corsica (the sites of Saint Florent, Piantarella-Bonifacio and Palo-Solenzara) for the last 8000 years. The analytical methods comprise pollen (five original pollen diagrams), weight loss on -ignition measurements, laser granulometry, and ostracod identification. In addition, 26 radiocarbon dates are used to provide a robust chronostratigraphy for the sedimentary sequences. The assessment of coastal landscape dynamics enables us to define the major morphological changes and to evaluate the complex interplay between climatic forcing and anthropogenic activity on the vegetation history of Corsica, within an archaeological context, since the early Neolithic Period (similar to 7.4 cal kyr BP). The major findings are that the first farmers reached Corsica by sea, and they encountered a coastal environment mainly composed of freshwater ponds located close to the shoreline. This specific paleoenvironmental feature offered a favourable location for agriculture and for the development of permanent settlements where a subsistence economy was developed. Since the Middle Holocene, postglacial sea-level rise has caused major changes in local coastal environments, often characterized by salt intrusion into freshwater bodies. At the transition between the Mid and Late Holocene (similar to 4.0 cal kyr BP), an increase in both salinity and aridity caused substantial landscape changes, mainly characterized by a further expansion of saline marshland, mainly occupied by Chenopodiaceae. The results also provide new insights into the role of Erica in the original Holocene vegetation of Corsica. Our data clearly indicate that an Erica - arborea Quercus ilex forest transition occurred before 6.3 cal kyr BP, significantly earlier than previously proposed. Finally, the earliest evidence of cereal cultivation is at similar to 7350 cal kyr BP, and in addition we are better able to constrain the role of humans in the landscape dynamics of Corsica since the early Neolithic. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Coastal landscape evolution of Corsica island (W. Mediterranean): palaeoenvironments, vegetation history and human impacts since the early Neolithic Period
Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019Co-Authors: Jordi Revelles, Matthieu Ghilardi, Veronica Rossi, Andrés Currás, Oriol López-bultó, Gaël Brkojewitsch, Matteo VacchiAbstract:Abstract A multi-proxy investigation of sediment cores has enabled us to reconstruct the coastal environmental evolution of East-Central Corsica (the sites of Saint Florent, Piantarella-Bonifacio and Palo-Solenzara) for the last 8000 years. The analytical methods comprise pollen (five original pollen diagrams), weight loss-on-ignition measurements, laser granulometry, and ostracod identification. In addition, 26 radiocarbon dates are used to provide a robust chronostratigraphy for the sedimentary sequences. The assessment of coastal landscape dynamics enables us to define the major morphological changes and to evaluate the complex interplay between climatic forcing and anthropogenic activity on the vegetation history of Corsica, within an archaeological context, since the early Neolithic Period (∼7.4 cal kyr BP). The major findings are that the first farmers reached Corsica by sea, and they encountered a coastal environment mainly composed of freshwater ponds located close to the shoreline. This specific paleoenvironmental feature offered a favourable location for agriculture and for the development of permanent settlements where a subsistence economy was developed. Since the Middle Holocene, postglacial sea-level rise has caused major changes in local coastal environments, often characterized by salt intrusion into freshwater bodies. At the transition between the Mid and Late Holocene (∼4.0 cal kyr BP), an increase in both salinity and aridity caused substantial landscape changes, mainly characterized by a further expansion of saline marshland, mainly occupied by Chenopodiaceae. The results also provide new insights into the role of Erica in the original Holocene vegetation of Corsica. Our data clearly indicate that an Erica arborea - Quercus ilex forest transition occurred before 6.3 cal kyr BP, significantly earlier than previously proposed. Finally, the earliest evidence of cereal cultivation is at ∼7350 cal kyr BP, and in addition we are better able to constrain the role of humans in the landscape dynamics of Corsica since the early Neolithic.
Apostolos Sarris - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Integrated GIS, remote sensing and geomorphologic approaches for the reconstruction of the landscape habitation of Thessaly during the Neolithic Period
Journal of Archaeological Science, 2011Co-Authors: Dimitrios D. Alexakis, Apostolos Sarris, Theodoros Astaras, K. AlbanakisAbstract:The aim of this study is to manifest the contribution of integrated approaches such as GIS, geomorphology, remote sensing and DEM analysis for the detection of Neolithic settlements, the modeling of habitation and the reconstruction of Neolithic landscape in the area of Thessaly. Thessaly is a region of low relief in central Greece where hundreds of Neolithic settlements called magoules were established from Early Neolithic Period until Bronze Age. In this study field survey, statistical analysis of coring data, spatial analysis of environmental parameters in GIS and image processing techniques of satellite images and DEMs were carried out to contribute to the detection of the Neolithic settlements and the reconstruction of Neolithic landscape.
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Reconstructing the Neolithic Landscape of Thessaly through a GIS and Geological Approach
2008Co-Authors: Dimitrios D. Alexakis, Apostolos Sarris, Theodoros Astaras, Kostas VouzaxakisAbstract:Neolithic Thessaly has been traditionally studied to understand human partitioning and territoriality of the landscape by non-hierarchical human groups. Thessaly is a region of low relief with extensive coastline and a great alluvial plain, where hundreds of Neolithic settlements/tells called magoules were established from the Early Neolithic Period until the Bronze Age. Archaeological data was collected forming a corpus of surveyed and excavated sites and settlements, differentiated by type, size or time-scale of occupation. Reconstruction of the Neolithic landscape was based on synthesis of geological maps, records of stratigraphic data collected from a total of 400 boreholes and the indexing of past studies relative to the geomorphological changes that have affected Neolithic Thessaly from Holocene until today. These were spatially and statistically processed to estimate the amount of alluvial deposits and their distribution on the Thessalian plain from the Early Neolithic Period to the present.
