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Article: Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use
Title | Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Anthropocene arable farming archaeological evidence historical time (human history) hunter-gatherer |
Issue Date | 2019 |
Publisher | American Association for the Advancement of Science. The Journal's web site is located at http://sciencemag.org |
Citation | Science, 2019, v. 365 n. 6456, p. 897-902 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Humans began to leave lasting impacts on Earth's surface starting 10,000 to 8000 years ago. Through a synthetic collaboration with archaeologists around the globe, Stephens et al. compiled a comprehensive picture of the trajectory of human land use worldwide during the Holocene (see the Perspective by Roberts). Hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists transformed the face of Earth earlier and to a greater extent than has been widely appreciated, a transformation that was essentially global by 3000 years before the present.Science, this issue p. 897; see also p. 865Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, but the extent, trajectory, and implications of these early changes are not well understood. An empirical global assessment of land use from 10,000 years before the present (yr B.P.) to 1850 CE reveals a planet largely transformed by hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists by 3000 years ago, considerably earlier than the dates in the land-use reconstructions commonly used by Earth scientists. Synthesis of knowledge contributed by more than 250 archaeologists highlighted gaps in archaeological expertise and data quality, which peaked for 2000 yr B.P. and in traditionally studied and wealthier regions. Archaeological reconstruction of global land-use history illuminates the deep roots of Earth’s transformation and challenges the emerging Anthropocene paradigm that large-scale anthropogenic global environmental change is mostly a recent phenomenon. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/285279 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 44.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 11.902 |
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dc.contributor.author | Kaplan, JO | - |
dc.contributor.author | ArchaeoGLOBE Project | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-18T03:51:58Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-08-18T03:51:58Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Science, 2019, v. 365 n. 6456, p. 897-902 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0036-8075 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/285279 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Humans began to leave lasting impacts on Earth's surface starting 10,000 to 8000 years ago. Through a synthetic collaboration with archaeologists around the globe, Stephens et al. compiled a comprehensive picture of the trajectory of human land use worldwide during the Holocene (see the Perspective by Roberts). Hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists transformed the face of Earth earlier and to a greater extent than has been widely appreciated, a transformation that was essentially global by 3000 years before the present.Science, this issue p. 897; see also p. 865Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, but the extent, trajectory, and implications of these early changes are not well understood. An empirical global assessment of land use from 10,000 years before the present (yr B.P.) to 1850 CE reveals a planet largely transformed by hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists by 3000 years ago, considerably earlier than the dates in the land-use reconstructions commonly used by Earth scientists. Synthesis of knowledge contributed by more than 250 archaeologists highlighted gaps in archaeological expertise and data quality, which peaked for 2000 yr B.P. and in traditionally studied and wealthier regions. Archaeological reconstruction of global land-use history illuminates the deep roots of Earth’s transformation and challenges the emerging Anthropocene paradigm that large-scale anthropogenic global environmental change is mostly a recent phenomenon. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | American Association for the Advancement of Science. The Journal's web site is located at http://sciencemag.org | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Science | - |
dc.rights | Science. Copyright © American Association for the Advancement of Science. | - |
dc.rights | This is the author’s version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the AAAS for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in [Science Journal Title] on [Volume number and date], DOI: [insert DOI number]. | - |
dc.subject | Anthropocene | - |
dc.subject | arable farming | - |
dc.subject | archaeological evidence | - |
dc.subject | historical time (human history) | - |
dc.subject | hunter-gatherer | - |
dc.title | Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Kaplan, JO: jkaplan@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Kaplan, JO=rp02529 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1126/science.aax1192 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 31467217 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85071503396 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 312720 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 365 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 6456 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 897 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 902 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000483975800041 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.identifier.f1000 | 736518369 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0036-8075 | - |