What burned the forest? Wildfires, climate change and human activity in the Mesolithic – Neolithic transition in SE Iberian Peninsula
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dc.contributor | Prehistoria y Protohistoria | es_ES |
dc.contributor.author | Sánchez-García, Carlos | - |
dc.contributor.author | Revelles, Jordi | - |
dc.contributor.author | Burjachs i Casas, Françesc | - |
dc.contributor.author | Euba, Itxaso | - |
dc.contributor.author | Expósito, Isabel | - |
dc.contributor.author | Ibáñez-Insa, Jordi | - |
dc.contributor.author | Schulte, Lothar | - |
dc.contributor.author | Fernández‐López de Pablo, Javier | - |
dc.contributor.other | Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Arqueología y Patrimonio Histórico | es_ES |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-10-13T10:06:58Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2023-10-13T10:06:58Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2023-10-08 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Catena. 2024, 234: 107542. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2023.107542 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 0341-8162 (Print) | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1872-6887 (Online) | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/137898 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Climate variability such as higher or lower temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, shifts in plant communities and other climate-related changes have particularly affected areas with Mediterranean-type climates. A multi-proxy analysis including pollen, sedimentary charcoal, mineralogy and Summed Probability Distributions (SPD) of archaeological 14C dates, allowed the reconstruction of landscape change, geomorphological evolution and fire history at the Laguna de Villena, in the southeastern Iberian Peninsula, during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition. The Villena paleolake was sensitive to Early Holocene and Middle Holocene regional climatic variability that included several arid phases (around 8.2 ka cal BP, 6.8 ka cal BP and 5.9 ka cal BP) according to geochemical and pollen data. During this period, landscape dynamics show the degradation of oak forests and expansion of pyrophytic pine forests and shrublands, as well as open spaces predominated by grasses. The charcoal record shows a decreasing trend of biomass burned from 8.5 ka cal BP onwards, although fire peaks occurred recurrently during the Early and Middle Holocene. The most intense phase of fire activity was experienced in the last millennia of the Early Holocene, with five fire episodes from 9.1 to 8.4 ka cal BP, coinciding with a phase of higher archaeological evidence in the area. A decrease in archaeological evidence coincides with a gap in fire episodes during the Early Holocene-Middle Holocene transition, suggesting an effect of the abrupt 8.2 ka cal BP event on human activity and on landscape dynamics. After 8.0 ka cal BP, lowerer biomass burned is explained by the configuration of a more open landscape due to the combination of climate (increasing aridity) and increasing human activities in the region. The mineralogical and palynological data highlighted the interaction between human activities, climate and fire dynamics. The sedimentary charcoal record evidenced how most of the fire peaks did not occur in the context of dry episodes, as often assumed, deriving on an anthropogenic explanation related to Early and Late Mesolithic burning practices during a phase of higher archaeological evidence in the Villena paleolake surroundings. Afterwards, combined agropastoral activities from the Early Neolithic onwards and increasing aridity during the Middle Holocene maintained the forest clearances, in the context of fire episodes characterised by decreased biomass burned. This study shows how Middle Holocene palaeoecological records reflect complex histories blending climate and anthropogenic processes that derived in major landscape changes explaining the origin of current landscapes. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | This research has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 683018) to JFLdP. Additional analyses on the pollen data sets have been produced in the context of the research project PID2020-113664RB-100 supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. JFLdP is additionally supported by the Plan Gen-T program (Ref. CIDEGENT-18/040) of the Generalitat Valenciana. CSG is currently supported by a Margarita Salas fellowship (ref. MARSALAS21-22) funded by the European Union-Next Generation EU, the Spanish Ministry of Universities and the University of Alicante. JR, IE and FB are members of the research group GAPS (2017 SGR 836). JR acknowledges postdoctoral fellowship support from the Spanish “Juan de la Cierva Incorporación (IJC2020)” program (MICINN, Spain). The Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana I Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA) has received financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the “María de Maeztu'' program for Units of Excellence (CEX2019-000945-M). LS is granted by the ICREA Academia Program. | es_ES |
dc.language | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | es_ES |
dc.rights | © 2023 Elsevier B.V. | es_ES |
dc.subject | Palaeofires | es_ES |
dc.subject | Mesolithic-Neolithic transition | es_ES |
dc.subject | Palaeoenvironment | es_ES |
dc.subject | Paleolake | es_ES |
dc.subject | Wildfires | es_ES |
dc.subject | Iberian Peninsula | es_ES |
dc.title | What burned the forest? Wildfires, climate change and human activity in the Mesolithic – Neolithic transition in SE Iberian Peninsula | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.peerreviewed | si | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.catena.2023.107542 | - |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2023.107542 | es_ES |
dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.relation.projectID | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/683018 | es_ES |
dc.relation.projectID | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2020-113664RB-I00 | es_ES |
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