Vegetation disturbance and human population in Colombia – a regional reconstruction
Robert Marchant
Hermann Behling
Juan Carlos Berrio
Henry Hooghiemstra
Bas van Geel
Thomas van der Hammen
Luisa Herrera
Bert Melief
Guido van Reenen
Michael Wille
Abstract
Palaeoecologists using pollen to map vegetation since the last ice age have noted numerous changes – which they feel increasingly obliged to blame on humans. These changes, such as deforestation or the dominance of certain plants, may happen suddenly or take place over thousands of years. The authors study the pollen record in Colombia, identify plants diagnostic of cultivation or disturbed ground (“degraded vegetation”) and use them to map human activities by proxy. They show how the people move and the landscape changes between 5000 BP and the present day, from the coast inland, and from the lowlands up into the Andes.
Marchant R., Behling H., Berrio J.C., Hooghiemstra H., Geel B.v., van der Hammen T., Herrera L., Melief B., van Reenen G. and Wille M. (2004) Vegetation disturbance and human population in Colombia – a regional reconstruction. Antiquity 78(302): 828-838. 10.1017/S0003598X0011347X
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Title = {Vegetation disturbance and human population in Colombia – a regional reconstruction},
Author = {Marchant, Robert and Behling, Hermann and Berrio, Juan Carlos and Hooghiemstra, Henry and Geel, Bas van and van der Hammen, Thomas and Herrera, Luisa and Melief, Bert and van Reenen, Guido and Wille, Michael},
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Journal = {Antiquity},
Year = {2004},
Pages = {828-838},
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Abstract = {Palaeoecologists using pollen to map vegetation since the last ice age have noted numerous changes – which they feel increasingly obliged to blame on humans. These changes, such as deforestation or the dominance of certain plants, may happen suddenly or take place over thousands of years. The authors study the pollen record in Colombia, identify plants diagnostic of cultivation or disturbed ground (“degraded vegetation”) and use them to map human activities by proxy. They show how the people move and the landscape changes between 5000 BP and the present day, from the coast inland, and from the lowlands up into the Andes.},
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AU - Melief, Bert
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