Ostracods and the Holocene palaeolimnology of Lake Qarun, with special reference to past human–environment interactions in the Faiyum (Egypt)

Keatings, K.; Holmes, Jonathan A.; Flower, Roger J.; Horne, David J.; Whittaker, John E.; Abu-Zied, Ramadan H.

doi:10.1007/s10750-010-0379-4

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“…Alluviation, around what is now the lagoon of Ghar El Melh (Tunisia), occurred rapidly between 2400 and 1500 b2k, partly coinciding with the Punic-Roman period (Delile et al, 2015). Baioumy et al (2010) attributed lithological variations in a Lake Qarun sediment core to lake level lowering by people regulating the lake inflow around the beginning of the Common Era and Keatings et al (2010) showed that the ostracod species changed around this time.…”

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First human impacts and responses of aquatic systems: A review of palaeolimnological records from around the world

Dubois

Saulnier‐Talbot

Mills

et al. 2017

The Anthropocene Review

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Lake sediments constitute natural archives of past environmental changes. Historically, research has focused mainly on generating regional climate records, but records of human impacts caused by land use and exploitation of freshwater resources are now attracting scientific and management interests. Long-term environmental records are useful to establish ecosystem reference conditions, enabling comparisons with current environments and potentially allowing future trajectories to be more tightly constrained. Here we review the timing and onset of human disturbance in and around inland water ecosystems as revealed through sedimentary archives from around the world. Palaeolimnology provides access to a wealth of information reflecting early human activities and their corresponding aquatic ecological shifts. First human impacts on aquatic systems and their watersheds are highly variable in time and space. Landscape disturbance often constitutes the first anthropogenic signal in palaeolimnological records. While the effects of humans at the landscape level are relatively easily demonstrated, the earliest signals of humaninduced changes in the structure and functioning of aquatic ecosystems need very careful investigation using multiple proxies. Additional studies will improve our understanding of linkages between human settlements, their exploitation of land and water resources, and the downstream effects on continental waters.

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First human impacts and responses of aquatic systems: A review of palaeolimnological records from around the world

Dubois

Saulnier‐Talbot

Mills

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The Anthropocene Review

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“…Local change can be recognized in prehistoric times, for example, deforestation around Lake Ohrid 5000 years ago (Wagner et al 2009); as a result of mining in the Tinto Estuary, Spain, in c. 1500 BC (Ruiz et al 2009); and as a result of the late Neolithic and Bronze Age occupation of Apulia, Italy (Caldara & Simone 2005). Ostracod populations from the coastal strip of Portugal, Spain and Malta and Lake Qarun, Egypt, preserve the effects of anthropogenic pollution, deforestation and agriculture from as early as Roman times (Almeida et al 2009;Keatings et al 2010;Currás et al 2012;Marriner et al 2012). By c. 1550 AD, eutrophication in parts of the Norwegian coastal zone (e.g.…”

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Microbiotic signatures of the Anthropocene in marginal marine and freshwater palaeoenvironments

Wilkinson

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The term 'Anthropocene' has been proposed to indicate a geological interval characterized by global anthropogenic environmental change. This paper attempts to recognize a method by which the Anthropocene can be defined micropalaeontologically. In order to do this, microfloras and microfaunas (diatoms, macrophytes, dinoflagellate cysts, foraminifera and ostracods) from nearshore waters through to paralic and freshwater aquatic milieux are considered, and biotic variability with an anthropogenic causation identified. Microbiotic change can be related to anthropogenically induced extinctions, pollution-related mutation, environmentally influenced assemblage variability, geochemistry of carapaces/tests, floral change related to lacustrine acidification, faunal and floral correlation to industrial and agricultural signatures and introduction of exotic species via shipping. The influence of humanity on a local scale can be recognized in assemblages as far back as 5000 years BP. However, widespread anthropogenic change took place in Europe and America, particularly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, although in Asia (e.g. Japan) it cannot be observed prior to the twentieth century. Profound and global biotic change began in the midtwentieth century and, if the Anthropocene is to be defined in this way, then the period 1940-1945 might encompass the biotic base of the interval.

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“…The aims of this paper are therefore to document geomorphic processes, sedimentary environments, and sources responsible for the spatial-temporal variability of sediments within a specific region of the north shore where surface archaeological materials are abundant, and to consider the relationship between the Keatings et al, 2010).…”

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The Effects of Holocene Landscape Changes on the Formation of the Archaeological Record in the Fayum Basin, Egypt

Koopman¹,

Kluiving²,

Holdaway

2015

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Geoarchaeological research was performed across an archaeological landscape along the hyperarid northern paleoshores of the modern Lake Qarun, Fayum Basin, Egypt. Objectives were to record sedimentary variability and to consider the correlation between the paleoenvironmental interpretations of these sedimentary data and the observed archaeological record dated to the early and mid-Holocene. Our approach combines hand-drilling and stratigraphic descriptions with detailed studies of sediments (grain size analysis, analyses of CaCO 3, and organic matter contents), densities of stone artifacts and bones, and chronometric data from associated contexts (AMS 14C dates on charcoal from hearths). Analysis of deposits indicates initiation of lake deposition, reworking of lake deposits, and subsequent accumulation of wind-blown deposits occurred prior to the deposition of archaeological materials. Correlations between sediment and the archaeological deposits indicate a different use of areas covered by relatively coarse-grained sediment (sand) compared to areas where relatively fine-grained deposits are exposed (clay and silt). Reassessment of the associations between archaeological materials and sediments in the Fayum Basin is required to improve knowledge of the interrelationships between the Nile flood history, regional climatic changes, oscillations in levels of paleo-Lake Qarun, compared to the chronology of human occupation in the Fayum Basin

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Ostracods and the Holocene palaeolimnology of Lake Qarun, with special reference to past human–environment interactions in the Faiyum (Egypt)

Cited by 30 publications

References 73 publications

First human impacts and responses of aquatic systems: A review of palaeolimnological records from around the world

First human impacts and responses of aquatic systems: A review of palaeolimnological records from around the world

Microbiotic signatures of the Anthropocene in marginal marine and freshwater palaeoenvironments

The Effects of Holocene Landscape Changes on the Formation of the Archaeological Record in the Fayum Basin, Egypt

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