Landscape transformations at the dawn of agriculture in southern Syria (10.7–9.9 ka cal. BP): Plant-specific responses to the impact of human activities and climate change
This work is dedicated to Lydia Zapata, for her support, encouragement and commitment to Tell Qarassa North project. The wood charcoal analyses were conducted by Amaia Arranz-Otaegui during her PhD research at the University of the Basque Country and with the financial support of the Basque Government (Pre-doctoral grant number: BFI.09.249) and the UPV/EHU: Research Group IT622-13/UFI 11-09. Marta Portillo is part of the Prehistory Consolidated Research Team at the UPV/EHU IT-622-13. Her research is currently funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie action MICROARCHAEODUNG (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015-702529). Andrea Balbo has worked on this paper on a Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (ARiD). The Qarassa project was carried out thanks to the authorisation of the General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums of Syria. The project was funded by the Spanish Institute of Cultural Heritage (Ministry of Culture), the Ministry of Science and Innovation (R + D Projects: BHA2003-09685-CO2-01, HUM2007-66128-C02-01, HUM2007-66128-C02-02 and HAR2013-47480-P), and the Government of Catalonia (EXCAVA2006 Programme), Gerda Henkel, Palarq and Shelby White-Leon Levy Foundations.
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Research Group ‘Archaeobiology’, Institute of History, CSIC, Madrid, Spain; Section of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Geography, Prehistory and Archaeology, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain; Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; Climate Change and Security (CLISEC), Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Universidad de Burgos, Laboratorio de Evolución Humana, Burgos, Spain; Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, CEPAM, France; Institució Milà i Fontanals, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Recommended Citation:
Arranz-Otaegui A.,López-Sáez J.A.,Araus J.L.,et al. Landscape transformations at the dawn of agriculture in southern Syria (10.7–9.9 ka cal. BP): Plant-specific responses to the impact of human activities and climate change[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2017-01-01,158