DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.013
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85028026830
论文题名: The environment of the last hunters-gatherers and first agro-pastoralists in the western Mediterranean region, between the Rhone and the Northern Apennines (7th - 6th millennium cal. BCE): Attractiveness of the landscape units and settlement patterns
作者: Battentier J. ; Binder D. ; Guillon S. ; Maggi R. ; Negrino F. ; Sénépart I. ; Tozzi C. ; Théry-Parisot I. ; Delhon C.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2018
卷: 184 起始页码: 167
结束页码: 182
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Abies
; Impressed ware
; Landscape
; Late mesolithic
; North-western mediterranean
; Settlement
Scopus关键词: Architecture
; Charcoal
; Natural resources
; Abies
; Impressed ware
; Landscape
; Late mesolithic
; Settlement
; Western Mediterranean
; Forestry
; accessibility
; hunter-gatherer
; hunting
; Mesolithic
; natural resource
; Neolithic
; palynology
; pastoralism
; settlement pattern
; subsistence
; Alps
; Apennines
; Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes
; France
; Italy
; Liguria
; Mediterranean Region
; New Zealand
; Prealps
; Rhone
; South Island
; Southern Alps
; Abies
英文摘要: In the north western Mediterranean, in the area between the Rhone River and the Northern Apennines, the last Mesolithic societies (Castelnovian) and the first Neolithic societies (Impressed Ware or Impressa) coexisted during the first half of the 6th millennium cal. BCE (Before Common Era). Linking the two settlement distribution patterns (mainly high lands and low lands for the Castelnovian versus Mediterranean coastal areas for the Impressa) to their specific environmental backgrounds during that period of coexistence enables us to document the attractiveness of the various available landscape units as a function of the subsistence practices (hunting, fishing and gathering versus agro-pastoralism). Pollen and charcoal data from 41 archaeological sites along with contemporaneous natural (off archaeological sites) sequences (hereafter referred to as “off-site sequences”) from three windows (Provence/Western Liguria, the middle Rhone valley/Prealps and Southern Alps, Eastern Liguria/Northern Apennines) were examined in order to reconstruct the vegetal landscape in the surroundings of the Mesolithic and Neolithic settlements between 6500 and 5400 cal. BCE. The importance of environmental versus cultural factors in the settlement preferences of both groups is discussed in order to document our reflection concerning non-consensual issues, such as the existence of interaction or avoidance behaviours or the sharing (or not) of parts or all of the territory and of its natural resources. The results notably highlight the expansion of fir forests that, based on ecological and accessibility criteria, could be considered as rather inauspicious for settlement and hunting as well as for pastoral activities. This expansion may have influenced the settlement patterns of both cultural complexes, leading populations to locate their settlements principally within landscape units that remained clear of extensive fir forests. It appears that, despite being motivated by the prevailing subsistence activities, the choice of an area of land for settlement is deeply guided by various other cultural factors which are less directly dependent upon natural resources. Thus, in an area providing a large range of possibilities, the landscape in which the groups establish themselves could be considered as just one of many cultural characteristics. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/112274
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作者单位: Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, CEPAM, Campus Saint-Jean d'Angély 3, 24 avenue des Diables Bleus, cedex 4, Nice, FR-06357, France; Istituto internazionale di studi liguri, Via Tigula 40, Lavagna, I-16033, Italy; Università di Genova, Dipartimento di Antichità Filosofia, Storia, Geografia, Via Balbi 2, Genova, I-16136, Italy; Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Civiltà e forme del sapere, Via dei Mille 19, Pisa, I-56126, Italy
Recommended Citation:
Battentier J.,Binder D.,Guillon S.,et al. The environment of the last hunters-gatherers and first agro-pastoralists in the western Mediterranean region, between the Rhone and the Northern Apennines (7th - 6th millennium cal. BCE): Attractiveness of the landscape units and settlement patterns[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2018-01-01,184