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DOI	10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.06.038
	Human responses to environmental change on the southern coastal plain of the Caspian Sea during the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods
	Leroy S.A.G.; Amini A.; Gregg M.W.; Marinova E.; Bendrey R.; Zha Y.; Beni A.N.; Fazeli Nashli H.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0277-3791
起始页码	343
结束页码	364
卷号	218
英文摘要	This paper presents results of a multidisciplinary research initiative examining human responses to environmental change at the intersection of the southern coastal plain of the Caspian Sea and the foothills of the Alborz Mountains during the terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene. Our palaeo-environmental analysis of two sedimentary cores obtained from a lagoon in close proximity to four caves, occupied by human groups during the transition from hunting and gathering to food-producing ways of life in this region, confirms Charles McBurney's 1968 hypothesis that when Caspian Sea levels were high, Mesolithic hunters were reliant on seal and deer, but as water levels receded and a wide coastal plain emerged, hunters consumed a different range of herbivorous mammalian species. Palynological evidence obtained from these two cores also demonstrates that the cool and dry climatic conditions often associated with the Younger Dryas stadial do not appear to have been extreme in this region. Thus, increasingly sedentary hunting and gathering groups could have drawn on plant and animal resources from multiple ecological niches without suffering significant resource stress or reduced population levels that may have been encountered in neighbouring regions. Our analyses of botanical, faunal and archaeological remains from a recently-discovered open-air Mesolithic and aceramic Neolithic site also shows an early process of Neolithization in the southern Caspian basin, which was a very gradual, low-cost adaptation to new ways of life, with neither the abandonment of hunting and gathering, nor a climatic trigger event for the emergence of a low-level, food-producing society. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Archaeology; Caspian Sea levels; Faunal and botanical evidence; Human response; Middle East; Neolithization; Palaeogeography; Palynology; Pleistocene-Holocene transition; Vegetation dynamics
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Mammals; Water levels; Archaeology; Caspian sea; Faunal and botanical evidence; Human response; Middle East; Neolithization; Palaeogeography; Palynology; Pleistocene-Holocene transition; Vegetation dynamics; Sea level; anthropogenic effect; archaeology; coastal plain; environmental change; Mesolithic; Neolithic; paleogeography; palynology; Pleistocene-Holocene boundary; vegetation history; Caspian Sea; Elburz; Iran; Middle East; Animalia; Cervidae; Mammalia
来源期刊	Quaternary Science Reviews
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/151841
作者单位	Department of Environmental Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom; CEREGE, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, IRD, Collège de France, Technopôle de l'Environnement Arbois-Méditerranée, BP80, Aix-en-Provence, 13545, France; Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, Golestan University, P.O. Box 155, Gorgan, 49138-15759, Iran; Department of Anthropology, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia B2G 2W5, Canada; Laboratory for Archaeobotany, Cultural Heritage Baden-Württemberg, Fischersteig 9, Gaienhofen-Hemmenhofen, 78343, Germany; School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland EH8 9AG, United Kingdom; Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science, No. 3, Etemadzadeh St., Fatemi Ave., Tehran, 1411813389, Iran; Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Literature and Humanity, University of Tehran, Iran
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Leroy S.A.G.,Amini A.,Gregg M.W.,et al. Human responses to environmental change on the southern coastal plain of the Caspian Sea during the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods[J],2019,218.
APA	Leroy S.A.G..,Amini A..,Gregg M.W..,Marinova E..,Bendrey R..,...&Fazeli Nashli H..(2019).Human responses to environmental change on the southern coastal plain of the Caspian Sea during the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods.Quaternary Science Reviews,218.
MLA	Leroy S.A.G.,et al."Human responses to environmental change on the southern coastal plain of the Caspian Sea during the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods".Quaternary Science Reviews 218(2019).