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dc.contributor.authorMorrison, D.Kathleen
dc.contributor.authorHammer, Emily
dc.contributor.authorBoles, Oliver
dc.contributor.authorMadella, Marco
dc.contributor.authorWhitehouse, Nicola
dc.contributor.authorGaillard, Marie-Jose
dc.contributor.authorBates, Jennifer
dc.contributor.authorLinden, Marc Vander
dc.contributor.authorMerlo, Stefania
dc.contributor.authorYao, Alice
dc.contributor.authorPopova, Laura
dc.contributor.authorHill, Austin Chad
dc.contributor.authorAntolin, Ferran
dc.contributor.authorBauer, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorBiagetti, Stefano
dc.contributor.authorBishop, R. Rosie
dc.contributor.authorBuckland, Phillip
dc.contributor.authorCruz, Pablo
dc.contributor.authorDreslerová, Dagmar
dc.contributor.authorDusseldorp, Gerrit
dc.contributor.authorEllis, Erle
dc.contributor.authorFilipovic, Dragana
dc.contributor.authorFoster, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorHannaford, Matthew J.
dc.contributor.authorHarrison, P. Sandy
dc.contributor.authorHazarika, Manjil
dc.contributor.authorHerold, Hajnalka
dc.contributor.authorHilpert, Johanna
dc.contributor.authorKaplan, Jed O.
dc.contributor.authorKay, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorGoldewijk, Kees Klein
dc.contributor.authorKolář, Jan
dc.contributor.authorKyazike, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.authorLaabs, Julian
dc.contributor.authorLancelotti, Carla
dc.contributor.authorLane, Paul
dc.contributor.authorLawrence, Dan
dc.contributor.authorLewis, Krista
dc.contributor.authorLombardo, Umberto
dc.contributor.authorLucarini, Giulio
dc.contributor.authorArroyo-Kalin, Manuel
dc.contributor.authorMarchant, Rob
dc.contributor.authorMayle, Francis
dc.contributor.authorMcClatchie, Meriel
dc.contributor.authorMcLeester, Madeleine
dc.contributor.authorMooney, Scott
dc.contributor.authorMoskal-del Hoyo, Magdalena
dc.contributor.authorNavarrete, Vanessa
dc.contributor.authorNdiema, Emmanuel
dc.contributor.authorGóes Neves, Eduardo
dc.contributor.authorNowak, Marek
dc.contributor.authorOut, Welmoed A.
dc.contributor.authorPetrie, Cameron
dc.contributor.authorPhelps, Leanne N.
dc.contributor.authorPinke, Zsolt
dc.contributor.authorRostain, Stéphen
dc.contributor.authorRussell, Thembi
dc.contributor.authorSluyter, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorStyring, Amy K.
dc.contributor.authorTamanaha, Eduardo
dc.contributor.authorThomas, Evert
dc.contributor.authorVeerasamy, Selvakumar
dc.contributor.authorWelton, Lynn
dc.contributor.authorZanon, Marco
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-15T17:15:02Z
dc.date.available2022-08-15T17:15:02Z
dc.date.issued2021-04-14
dc.identifier.citationMorrison, K. D., Hammer, E., Boles, O., Madella, M., Whitehouse, N., Gaillard, M. J., ... & Zanon, M. (2021). Mapping past human land use using archaeological data: A new classification for global land use synthesis and data harmonization. PloS one, 16(4). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246662en_US
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246662
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12504/1065
dc.description38p. : ill( Col)en_US
dc.description.abstractIn 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.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPLOS ONEen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries;Vol.16
dc.relation.ispartofseries;No.4
dc.subjectMapping.en_US
dc.subjectHuman land use.en_US
dc.subjectArchaeology.en_US
dc.subjectArchaeological data.en_US
dc.subjectData harmonization.en_US
dc.subjectLand use.en_US
dc.subjectLand use models.en_US
dc.titleMapping past human land use using archaeological data: A new classification for global land use synthesis and data harmonizationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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