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

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985912%3A_____%2F21%3A00542197" target="_blank" >RIV/67985912:_____/21:00542197 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/21:00542197 RIV/00216224:14210/21:00121565

Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0246662&type=printable" target="_blank" >https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0246662&type=printable</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246662" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0246662</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

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

Original language description

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.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - 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

Project

<a href="/en/project/GJ19-20970Y" target="_blank" >GJ19-20970Y: Land use, social transformations and woodland in Central European Prehistory. Modelling approaches to human-environment interactions</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PLoS ONE

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

1932-6203

Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

38

Pages from-to

e0246662

UT code for WoS article

000640604500034

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85104147535