Climate fluctuations and trajectories to complexity in the Neolithic: towards a theory

Gronenborn, Detlef

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“…One followed the Danube River west from its delta in the Black Sea into the heart of temperate Europe: France, Germany, and Scandinavia. The other followed the Mediterranean littoral west into North Africa, Greece, Italy, southern France, and Spain (Gronenborn, 2009) By about 4000 BCE farming societies were established throughout Europe (Gronenborn, 2009). The heartiest of domesticated species adapted over millennia to the new local habitats, under the selective pressure of both increasingly proficient farmers and dramatic shifts of climate regimes over the European continent (see figure 3).…”

Section: Diversity As An Agricultural Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

Bio-cultural refugia—Safeguarding diversity of practices for food security and biodiversity

Barthel

Crumley

Svedin

2013

Global Environmental Change

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Food security for a growing world population is high on the list of grand sustainability challenges, as is reducing the pace of biodiversity loss in landscapes of food production. Here we shed new insights on areas that harbor place specific social memories related to food security and stewardship of biodiversity. We call them Bio-cultural refugia. Our goals are to illuminate how bio-cultural refugia store, revive and transmit memory of agricultural biodiversity and ecosystem services, and how such social memories are carried forward between people and across cohorts. We discuss the functions of such refugia for addressing the twin goals of food security and biodiversity conservation in landscapes of food production.The methodological approach is first of its kind in combining the discourses on food security, social memory and biodiversity management. We find that the rich biodiversity of many regionally distinct cultural landscapes has been maintained through a mosaic of management practices that have co-evolved in relation to local environmental fluctuations, and that such practices are carried forward by both biophysical and social features in bio-cultural refugia including; genotypes, artifacts, written accounts, as well as embodied rituals, art, oral traditions and self-organized systems of rules. Combined these structure a diverse portfolio of practices that result in genetic reservoirs -source areas -for the wide array of species, which in interplay produce vital ecosystem services, needed for future food security related to environmental uncertainties, volatile financial markets and large scale conflicts. In Europe, processes related to the large-scale industrialization of agriculture threaten such bio-cultural refugia. The paper highlights that the dual goals to reduce pressures from modern agriculture on biodiversity, while maintaining food security, entails more extensive collaboration with farmers oriented toward ecologically sound practices.

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Section: Diversity As An Agricultural Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

Bio-cultural refugia—Safeguarding diversity of practices for food security and biodiversity

Barthel

Crumley

Svedin

2013

Global Environmental Change

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106

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“…The most recent manifestation is known as the Little Ice Age (LIA) (Budja 2007;Clare and Weninger, 2010;Weninger et al, 2009). For the North Atlantic, these cooling phases are explained with changes in salinity caused by final deglaciation of the Laurentide ice sheet and related fresh-water outbursts into the ocean, as well as iceberg discharges which equally supplied fresh-water to the North Atlantic (Budja, 2007;Gronenborn, 2009), known as Holocene IRD events (Ice Rafted Debris) (Gronenborn, 2009) or Bond events (Bond et al, 1997). IRD events show a good correlation with insolation cycles and solar triggering is considered (Bond et al, 2001;Gronenborn, 2009).…”

Section: Climate Proxiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For the North Atlantic, these cooling phases are explained with changes in salinity caused by final deglaciation of the Laurentide ice sheet and related fresh-water outbursts into the ocean, as well as iceberg discharges which equally supplied fresh-water to the North Atlantic (Budja, 2007;Gronenborn, 2009), known as Holocene IRD events (Ice Rafted Debris) (Gronenborn, 2009) or Bond events (Bond et al, 1997). IRD events show a good correlation with insolation cycles and solar triggering is considered (Bond et al, 2001;Gronenborn, 2009). These North Atlantic temperature changes and changes in the ocean salinity could also have had hemispherical effect, with teleconnections to the monsoonal cycles (Alley and Ágústsdóttir, 2005;Gronenborn, 2009).…”

Section: Climate Proxiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climatic Influences on Appearance and Development of Neolithic Cultures in Southern Outskirts of Carpathian Basin

Botić

2016

Studia Quaternaria

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Southern outskirts of Carpathian basin, namely the region between Sava, Drava and Danube rivers, have specific climate conditions today partially influenced by geological structure and geographical position. In this region Neolithic Starèevo and Sopot cultures are observed. Radiocarbon dates for Neolithic cultures are used to build a time frame which is compared with climate proxies, especially with Holocene rapid climate events (8.2, 5.9 and 4.2 ka), to draw a conclusion on when and how these cultures developed in southern regions of Carpathian basin. Lacking firm geoarchaeological data the results are not conclusive but can provide some insight on how the climate may have directly and indirectly influenced development of Neolithic and beginning of Eneolithic period in the region.

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“…There the hiatuses were ascribed to climatic changes. 44 As the extent of the Gubakút site is that of the average mother settlement, those reconstructions suggesting it never exceeded 14 houses at any one time, can without any doubt also be applied to other similarly sized mother settlements. Thus at those settlements with a similarly high number of houses and grazing needs can be postulated.…”

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The Füzesabony-Gubakút Settlement Development Model of the Alföld Linear Pottery Culture in the Light of the Recent Archaeological Discoveries at Hejőpapi-Szeméttelep (2008-2011) and Bükkábrány-Bánya VII -Vasúti Dűlő (2009-2011)

Domboróczki¹

2017

JHAAS

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The füzesabony-gubakút settlement development model of the alföld linear pottery culture in the light of the recent archaeological discoveries at hejőpapi-szeméttelep (2008-2011) and bükkábrány-bánya vii -vasúti dűlő (2009-2011) AbstractThanks to the extensive excavations that have been going on since the mid 1990s, archaeological research has managed to gain a greater insight into the settlement history of the ALPC. The large linear settlements and neatly arranged house-pitgrave ensembles offered an excellent opportunity to examine the relative and absolute chronology of the settlements and to gain an understanding of the settlements' internal development mechanism. The ALPC settlement development model on micro, mezo and macro scales was based on our key site of Füzesabony-Gubakút and its microregion in the southern Heves area. The most recent excavation results from Hejőpapi-Szeméttelep and Bükkábrány-Bánya VII -Vasúti dűlő in the Borsod area should be considered excellent test data for our model, as these sites were excavated in almost their entirety. As the processing of the finds from these excavations is still to come, the test in question is only really relevant for the structure of the settlement. Even so it is possible to draw serious conclusions from the data we already have.Keywords: excavation, chronology, carpathian basin, neolithic settlements, körös culture Journal of Historical Archaeology & Anthropological SciencesResearch ArticleOpen AccessThe füzesabony-gubakút settlement development model of the alföld linear pottery culture in the light of the recent archaeological discoveries at hejőpapi-szeméttelep (2008-2011) and bükkábrány-bánya vii -vasúti dűlő (2009-2011)

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Climate fluctuations and trajectories to complexity in the Neolithic: towards a theory

Cited by 71 publications

References 24 publications

Bio-cultural refugia—Safeguarding diversity of practices for food security and biodiversity

Bio-cultural refugia—Safeguarding diversity of practices for food security and biodiversity

Climatic Influences on Appearance and Development of Neolithic Cultures in Southern Outskirts of Carpathian Basin

The Füzesabony-Gubakút Settlement Development Model of the Alföld Linear Pottery Culture in the Light of the Recent Archaeological Discoveries at Hejőpapi-Szeméttelep (2008-2011) and Bükkábrány-Bánya VII -Vasúti Dűlő (2009-2011)

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