The Neolithic transition and Palaeoecology in the Balkans: A comment

被引：5

作者：

Magri, D

机构：

[1] Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Università La Sapienza, 00185 Roma, P.le Aldo Moro

来源：

HOLOCENE | 1996年 / 6卷 / 01期

关键词：

Neolithic transition; palaeoecology; human impact; deforestation; early farming; archaeology; palynology; southeastern Europe; Balkans;

D O I：

10.1177/095968369600600115

中图分类号：

P9 [自然地理学];

学科分类号：

0705 ; 070501 ;

摘要：

In examining the Neolithic transition in the Balkans, Willis and Bennett (1994) suggest that the spread of agriculture and the timing of forest clearance were not coincident and that the impact of agriculture upon the landscape did not follow a time-transgressive spread. On the basis of a close correlation between the timing of deforestation and present-day mean annual precipitation values in the Balkans, I suggest that the reduction of woodland is clearly time-transgressive along a humidity gradient and that climatic conditions were a major factor in determining the history of vegetation in the Balkans from the mid-Holocene.

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