Historical ecology reveals landscape transformation coincident with cultural development in central Italy since the Roman Period.

ABSTRACT: Knowledge of the direct role humans have had in changing the landscape requires the perspective of historical and archaeological sources, as well as climatic and ecologic processes, when interpreting paleoecological records. People directly impact land at the local scale and land use decisions are strongly influenced by local sociopolitical priorities that change through time. A complete picture of the potential drivers of past environmental change must include a detailed and integrated analysis of evolving sociopolitical priorities, climatic change and ecological processes. However, there are surprisingly few localities that possess high-quality historical, archeological and high-resolution paleoecologic datasets. We present a high resolution 2700-year pollen record from central Italy and

SUBMITTER: Mensing SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5794987 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature