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    Mapping past human land use using archaeological data: A new classification for global land use synthesis and data harmonization

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    2021-04-14
    Author
    Morrison, D.Kathleen
    Hammer, Emily
    Boles, Oliver
    Madella, Marco
    Whitehouse, Nicola
    Gaillard, Marie-Jose
    Bates, Jennifer
    Linden, Marc Vander
    Merlo, Stefania
    Yao, Alice
    Popova, Laura
    Hill, Austin Chad
    Antolin, Ferran
    Bauer, Andrew
    Biagetti, Stefano
    Bishop, R. Rosie
    Buckland, Phillip
    Cruz, Pablo
    Dreslerová, Dagmar
    Dusseldorp, Gerrit
    Ellis, Erle
    Filipovic, Dragana
    Foster, Thomas
    Hannaford, Matthew J.
    Harrison, P. Sandy
    Hazarika, Manjil
    Herold, Hajnalka
    Hilpert, Johanna
    Kaplan, Jed O.
    Kay, Andrea
    Goldewijk, Kees Klein
    Kolář, Jan
    Kyazike, Elizabeth
    Laabs, Julian
    Lancelotti, Carla
    Lane, Paul
    Lawrence, Dan
    Lewis, Krista
    Lombardo, Umberto
    Lucarini, Giulio
    Arroyo-Kalin, Manuel
    Marchant, Rob
    Mayle, Francis
    McClatchie, Meriel
    McLeester, Madeleine
    Mooney, Scott
    Moskal-del Hoyo, Magdalena
    Navarrete, Vanessa
    Ndiema, Emmanuel
    Góes Neves, Eduardo
    Nowak, Marek
    Out, Welmoed A.
    Petrie, Cameron
    Phelps, Leanne N.
    Pinke, Zsolt
    Rostain, Stéphen
    Russell, Thembi
    Sluyter, Andrew
    Styring, Amy K.
    Tamanaha, Eduardo
    Thomas, Evert
    Veerasamy, Selvakumar
    Welton, Lynn
    Zanon, Marco
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    Abstract
    In the 12,000 years preceding the Industrial Revolution, human activities led to significant changes in land cover, plant and animal distributions, surface hydrology, and biochemical cycles. Earth system models suggest that this anthropogenic land cover change influenced regional and global climate. However, the representation of past land use in earth system models is currently oversimplified. As a result, there are large uncertainties in the current understanding of the past and current state of the earth system. In order to improve representation of the variety and scale of impacts that past land use had on the earth system, a global effort is underway to aggregate and synthesize archaeological and historical evidence of land use systems. Here we present a simple, hierarchical classification of land use systems designed to be used with archaeological and historical data at a global scale and a schema of codes that identify land use practices common to a range of systems, both implemented in a geospatial database. The classification scheme and database resulted from an extensive process of consultation with researchers worldwide. Our scheme is designed to deliver consistent, empirically robust data for the improvement of land use models, while simultaneously allowing for a comparative, detailed mapping of land use relevant to the needs of historical scholars. To illustrate the benefits of the classification scheme and methods for mapping historical land use, we apply it to Mesopotamia and Arabia at 6 kya (c. 4000 BCE). The scheme will be used to describe land use by the Past Global Changes (PAGES) LandCover6k working group, an international project comprised of archaeologists, historians, geographers, paleoecologists, and modelers. Beyond this, the scheme has a wide utility for creating a common language between research and policy communities, linking archaeologists with climate modelers, biodiversity conservation workers and initiatives.
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    https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246662
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12504/1065
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