2021
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.689399
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Remote Sensing Reveals Lasting Legacies of Land-Use by Small-Scale Foraging Communities in the Southwestern Indian Ocean

Abstract: Archaeologists interested in the evolution of anthropogenic landscapes have productively adopted Niche Construction Theory (NCT), in order to assess long-term legacies of human-environment interactions. Applications of NCT have especially been used to elucidate co-evolutionary dynamics in agricultural and pastoral systems. Meanwhile, foraging and/or highly mobile small-scale communities, often thought of as less intensive in terms of land-use than agropastoral economies, have received less theoretical and anal… Show more

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“…Results from this study suggest that the landscape transformation was the product of fire intensification, likely associated with the management of grasslands for introduced cattle (Bloesch, 1999;Kull, 2002;Davis and Douglass, 2021). High concentrations of charcoal particles are associated with the concomitant increase of Poaceae (∼65%) over time in the region.…”
Section: Fire Activitymentioning
confidence: 84%
“…Results from this study suggest that the landscape transformation was the product of fire intensification, likely associated with the management of grasslands for introduced cattle (Bloesch, 1999;Kull, 2002;Davis and Douglass, 2021). High concentrations of charcoal particles are associated with the concomitant increase of Poaceae (∼65%) over time in the region.…”
Section: Fire Activitymentioning
confidence: 84%
“…The distribution of these practices among different human cultures is maintained today, and this may be related to the fact that humans, when successful niche constructors, inherit from their ancestors information about how to manage these environments, thus favoring more than one generation (Smith, 2011;Albuquerque et al, 2015;Coca et al, 2021). This makes explicit one of the principles of NCT, relocation, which affirms that practices can migrate with constructing organisms and be adopted by other populations when they meet in time and space (Davis and Douglass, 2021). Moreover, these common practices refute one of the current criticisms of NCT, because they are not merely singular human behaviors but behaviors that are regularly repeated at the population level (Spengler, 2021).…”
Section: Cultural Influence: Construction Of Nichesmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…Domesticated landscapes are created by the conscious and unconscious processes of manipulating ecosystems and the plants that compose them, resulting in more productive environments suitable for humans (Terrell et al, 2003;Casas et al, 2017;Hecht, 2017;Clement et al, 2021). This feedback between practice and result is one of the differentials of NCT (Matthews et al, 2014;Huebert and Allen, 2020;Davis and Douglass, 2021).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This method has been previously applied in other research studies for designing conceptual models [ 55 , 56 ] but not as the machine learning method that it really is (at least that the authors are aware of). Other studies that have explored past socio-ecological systems from the machine learning approach have employed other algorithms, such as logistic regression [ 57 ], deep learning [ 58 ], support vector machine [ 19 ], random forest [ 59 ] or combined some of these algorithms [ 18 , 60 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%