Diversification, intensification and specialization: changing land use in Western Africa from 1800 BC to AD 1500

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• dc.contributor.author Kay, Andrea U.
• dc.contributor.author Fuller, Dorian Q.
• dc.contributor.author Eichhorn, Barbara
• dc.contributor.author Höhn, Alexa
• dc.contributor.author Morin-Rivat, Julie
• dc.contributor.author Champion, Louis
• dc.contributor.author Linseele, Veerle
• dc.contributor.author Huysecom, Eric
• dc.contributor.author Ozainne, Sylvain
• dc.contributor.author Lespez, Laurent
• dc.contributor.author Biagetti, Stefano
• dc.contributor.author Madella, Marco
• dc.contributor.author Salzmann, Ulrich
• dc.contributor.author Kaplan, Jed O.
• dc.date.accessioned 2020-05-11T07:37:45Z
• dc.date.available 2020-05-11T07:37:45Z
• dc.date.issued 2019
• dc.description.abstract Many societal and environmental changes occurred between the 2nd millennium BC and the middle of the 2nd millennium AD in western Africa. Key amongst these were changes in land use due to the spread and development of agricultural strategies, which may have had widespread consequences for the climate, hydrology, biodiversity, and ecosystem services of the region. Quantifcation of these land-use infuences and potential feedbacks between human and natural systems is controversial, however, in part because the archaeological and historical record is highly fragmented in time and space. To improve our understanding of how humans contributed to the development of African landscapes, we developed an atlas of landuse practices in western Africa for nine time-windows over the period 1800 BC–AD 1500. The maps are based on a broad synthesis of archaeological, archaeobotanical, archaeozoological, historical, linguistic, genetic, and ethnographic data, and present land use in 12 basic categories. The main diferences between categories is the relative reliance on, and variety of, domesticated plant and animal species utilized, and the energy invested in cultivating or keeping them. The maps highlight the irregular and frequently non-linear trajectory of land-use change in the prehistory of western Africa. Representing an original attempt to produce rigorous spatial synthesis from diverse sources, the atlas will be useful for a range of studies of human–environment interactions in the past, and highlight major spatial and temporal gaps in data that may guide future feld studies.
• dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by Grants to JOK from the European Research Council (COEVOLVE, 313797), the Swiss National Science Foundation (ACACIA, CR10I2_146314), and the Fondation Herbette (2016-2-E-16). JMR was funded by the Funds for Research Training in Industry and Agriculture (National Funds for Scientifc Research, Belgium) and the Leopold II Funds (Belgium). Data were also acquired in the framework of the Era-Net BiodivERsA CoForChange project, funded by the French National Research Agency and National Environment Research Council (UK).
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• dc.identifier.citation Kay AU, Fuller DQ, Neuman K, Eichhorn B, Höhn A, Morin-Rivat J et al. Diversification, intensification and specialization: changing land use in Western Africa from 1800 BC to AD 1500. J World Prehist. 2019;32:179-228. DOI: 10.1007/s10963-019-09131-2
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10963-019-09131-2
• dc.identifier.issn 0892-7537
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44475
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Springer
• dc.relation.ispartof Journal of World Prehistory. 2019;32:179-228
• dc.rights © The Author(s) 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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• dc.subject.keyword Archaeology
• dc.subject.keyword Land-use change
• dc.subject.keyword Western Africa
• dc.subject.keyword Human subsistence
• dc.subject.keyword Iron age
• dc.subject.keyword Archaeobotany
• dc.subject.keyword Archaeozoology
• dc.subject.keyword Agriculture
• dc.title Diversification, intensification and specialization: changing land use in Western Africa from 1800 BC to AD 1500
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