Data on mid-Holocene climatic, vegetation and anthropogenic interactions at Stanshiel Rig, southern Scotland
Data on mid-Holocene climatic, vegetation and anthropogenic interactions at Stanshiel Rig, southern Scotland
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苏格兰南部斯坦希尔钻井平台全新世中期气候、植被和人为相互作用的数据
DOI：
10.1007/s003340200023
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发表时间：
2002
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
R. Tipping
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作者：
Sandi Cayless;R. Tipping
抽象的。花粉，微观木炭和泥炭腐殖化分析应用到放射性碳定年泥炭芯，以研究环境变化之前和之后的中全新世过渡狩猎采集（中石器时代）农业（新石器时代）社区目前边缘高地牧场Stanshiel钻机，安南代尔，苏格兰南部。英国北方的中石器时代-新石器时代过渡的特征是一些关键的环境变化以及经济转变，包括火灾的时间模式和榆树的衰落。故意植被修改中石器时代的社区是不明显的斯坦希尔钻机，并在林地树冠开口可能是由野生动物放牧或已被气候变化的后果。火灾频率的变化也与泥炭和花粉地层学的证据，在中石器时代晚期，可能介导的土壤和生物量储存的变化向干燥的气候转变。一个单一的榆树下降之间发生约。5650和5600 cal B。P.，这与气候变化有关。新石器时代对林地的影响是有限的，没有谷物型的花粉被发现。狩猎采集者和机会主义农民/狩猎采集者之间的差异在当地被认为是微不足道的，或无法检测到的孢粉学。
Abstract. Pollen, microscopic charcoal and peat humification analyses were applied to radiocarbon-dated peat cores to examine environmental change before and after the mid-Holocene transition from hunter-gatherer (Mesolithic) to agricultural (Neolithic) communities in presently marginal upland pasture at Stanshiel Rig, Annandale, southern Scotland. The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in northern Britain is characterised by a number kf key environmental changes as well as economic shifts, including temporal patterns of fire and the Ulmus decline. Deliberate vegetation modification by Mesolithic communities is not demonstrable at Stanshiel Rig, and openings in the woodland canopy may have been promoted by grazing by wild animals or have been a consequence of climate change. Changes in fire frequency are also correlated with peat- and pollen-stratigraphic evidence for shifts to a drier climate in the late Mesolithic, probably mediated through pedological and biomass-storage change. A single Ulmus decline occurred between ca. 5650 and 5600 cal B. P., and is related here to climate change. Neolithic-age impacts on the woodland were limited, and no cereal-type pollen were found. The difference between hunter-gatherer and opportunistic farmer/hunter-gatherer at this locally is argued to be insignificant, or not detectable palynologically.