TY - JOUR
T1 - Archaeological assessment reveals Earth's early transformation through land use
AU - ArchaeoGLOBE Project
AU - Stephens, Lucas
AU - FullerNicole, Dorian
AU - Boivin, Nicole
AU - Rick, Torben
AU - Gauthier, Nicolas
AU - Kay, Andrea
AU - Marwick, Ben
AU - Armstrong, Chelsey Geralda Denise
AU - Barton, C. Michael
AU - Denham, Tim
AU - Douglass, Kristina
AU - Driver, Jonathan
AU - Janz, Lisa
AU - Roberts, Patrick
AU - Rogers, J. Daniel
AU - Thakar, Heather
AU - Altaweel, Mark
AU - Johnson, Amber L.
AU - Vattuone, Maria Marta Sampietro
AU - Aldenderfer, Mark
AU - Archila, Sonia
AU - Artioli, Gilberto
AU - Bale, Martin T.
AU - Beach, Timothy
AU - Borrell, Ferran
AU - Braje, Todd
AU - Buckland, Philip I.
AU - Cano, Nayeli Guadalupe Jiménez
AU - Capriles, José M.
AU - Castillo, Agustín Diez
AU - Çilingiroglu, Çiler
AU - Cleary, Michelle Negus
AU - Conolly, James
AU - Coutros, Peter R.
AU - Covey, R. Alan
AU - Cremaschi, Mauro
AU - Crowther, Alison
AU - Der, Lindsay
AU - Di Lernia, Savino
AU - Doershuk, John F.
AU - Doolittle, William E.
AU - Edwards, Kevin J.
AU - Erlandson, Jon M.
AU - Evans, Damian
AU - Fairbairn, Andrew
AU - Faulkner, Patrick
AU - Feinman, Gary
AU - Fernandes, Ricardo
AU - Fitzpatrick, Scott M.
AU - Lanoë, François
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Authors.
PY - 2019/8/30
Y1 - 2019/8/30
N2 - Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, but the extent, trajectory, and implications of these early changes are not well understood. An empirical global assessment of land use from 10,000 years before the present (yr B.P.) to 1850 CE reveals a planet largely transformed by hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists by 3000 years ago, considerably earlier than the dates in the land-use reconstructions commonly used by Earth scientists. Synthesis of knowledge contributed by more than 250 archaeologists highlighted gaps in archaeological expertise and data quality, which peaked for 2000 yr B.P. and in traditionally studied and wealthier regions. Archaeological reconstruction of global land-use history illuminates the deep roots of Earth's transformation and challenges the emerging Anthropocene paradigm that large-scale anthropogenic global environmental change is mostly a recent phenomenon.
AB - Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, but the extent, trajectory, and implications of these early changes are not well understood. An empirical global assessment of land use from 10,000 years before the present (yr B.P.) to 1850 CE reveals a planet largely transformed by hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists by 3000 years ago, considerably earlier than the dates in the land-use reconstructions commonly used by Earth scientists. Synthesis of knowledge contributed by more than 250 archaeologists highlighted gaps in archaeological expertise and data quality, which peaked for 2000 yr B.P. and in traditionally studied and wealthier regions. Archaeological reconstruction of global land-use history illuminates the deep roots of Earth's transformation and challenges the emerging Anthropocene paradigm that large-scale anthropogenic global environmental change is mostly a recent phenomenon.
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U2 - 10.1126/science.aax1192
DO - 10.1126/science.aax1192
M3 - Article
C2 - 31467217
AN - SCOPUS:85071503396
SN - 0036-8075
VL - 365
SP - 897
EP - 902
JO - Science
JF - Science
IS - 6456
ER -