Mapping food production in hyper-arid and arid Saharan Africa in the holocene: a view from the present

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• dc.contributor.author Lancelotti, Carla
• dc.contributor.author Biagetti, Stefano
• dc.date.accessioned 2021-05-07T07:39:32Z
• dc.date.available 2021-05-07T07:39:32Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description.abstract The reconstruction of land use practices in hyper-arid Saharan Africa is often hampered by the accuracy of the available tools and by unconscious biases that see these areas as marginal and inhospitable. Considered that this has been for a long time the living space of pastoral mobile communities, new research is showing that agriculture might have been more important in these areas than previously thought. In this paper, after a review of present-day land use strategies in Saharan Africa, we show how ethnographic and ethnoarchaeological data can offer us a different point of view and help in better defining land use and food production strategies in this area. Ultimately, these insights can be integrated into the ongoing efforts to reconstruct past land use globally.en
• dc.description.sponsorship This research and the APC were funded by the European Research Council, grant number ERC-Stg-2017 759800, RAINDROPS project.
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• dc.identifier.citation Lancelotti C, Biagetti S. Mapping food production in hyper-arid and arid Saharan Africa in the holocene: a view from the present. Quaternary. 2021 Apr 22;4(2):13. DOI: 10.3390/quat4020013
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/quat4020013
• dc.identifier.issn 2571-550X
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/47353
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher MDPI
• dc.relation.ispartof Quaternary. 2021 Apr 22;4(2):13
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/759800
• dc.rights © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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• dc.subject.keyword Drylandsen
• dc.subject.keyword Land useen
• dc.subject.keyword Aridity indexen
• dc.subject.keyword Ethnographyen
• dc.subject.keyword Ethnoarchaeologyen
• dc.subject.keyword Pastoralismen
• dc.subject.keyword Agricultureen
• dc.subject.keyword LandCover6Ken
• dc.title Mapping food production in hyper-arid and arid Saharan Africa in the holocene: a view from the presenten
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