Take a seed! Revealing Neolithic landscape and agricultural development in the Carpathian Basin through multivariate statistics and environmental modelling
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F21%3A00122697" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/21:00122697 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0258206" target="_blank" >https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0258206</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258206" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0258206</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Take a seed! Revealing Neolithic landscape and agricultural development in the Carpathian Basin through multivariate statistics and environmental modelling
Original language description
The Carpathian Basin represents the cradle of human agricultural development during the Neolithic period, when large parts were transformed into ‘cultural landscapes’ by first farmers from the Balkans. It is assumed that an Early Neolithic subsistence economy established along the hydrologic systems and on Chernozem soil patches, which developed from loess deposits. However, recent results from soil chemistry and geoarchaeological analyses raised the hypothesis that extensive Chernozem coverage developed from increased landuse activity and that Early Neolithic ‘cultural’ groups were not restricted to loess-covered surfaces but rather preferred hydromorphic soils that formed in the floodplains. This article performs multivariable statistics from large datasets of Neolithic sites in Hungary and allows tracing Early to Late Neolithic site preferences from digital environmental data. Quantitative analyses reveal a strong preference for hydromorphic soils, a significant avoidance of loesscovered areas, and no preference for Chernozem soils throughout the Early Neolithic followed by a strong transformation of site preferences during the Late Neolithic period. These results align with socio-cultural developments, large-scale mobility patterns, and land-use and surface transformation, which shaped the Carpathian Basin and paved the way for the agricultural revolution across Europe.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
PLOS ONE
ISSN
1932-6203
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
16
Issue of the periodical within the volume
10 October
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
34
Pages from-to
1-34
UT code for WoS article
000755042500005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85118566113