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DOI	10.1073/pnas.2022211118
	Historical socioecological transformations in the global tropics as an Anthropocene analogue
	Penny D.; Beach T.P.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	0027-8424
卷号	118 期号:40
英文摘要	Large, low-density settlements of the tropical world disintegrated during the first and second millennia of the CE. This phenomenon, which occurred in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Mesoamerica, is strongly associated with climate variability and extensive landscape transformation. These profound social transformations in the tropical world have been popularized as “collapse,” yet archaeological evidence suggests a more complex and nuanced story characterized by persistence, adaptation, and resilience at the local and regional scales. The resulting tension between ideas of climate-driven collapse and evidence for diverse social responses challenges our understanding of long-term resilience and vulnerability to environmental change in the global tropics. Here, we compare the archetypal urban collapse of the Maya, in modern Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, during the 8th to 11th centuries CE, and the Khmer in modern Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam during the 14th to 15th centuries CE. We argue that the social response to environmental stress is spatially and temporally heterogenous, reflecting the generation of large-scale landesque capital surrounding the urban cores. Divergences between vulnerable urban elite and apparently resilient dispersed agricultural settlements sit uncomfortably with simplistic notions of social collapse and raise important questions for humanity as we move deeper into the Anthropocene. © 2021 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Collapse; Khmer; Maya; Paleoanthropocene; Tropics
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Anthropocene; Belize; Cambodia; ecology; environmental stress; geological time; Guatemala; history; Honduras; human; Khmer (people); Laos; Maya (people); Mexico; Review; social aspect; Thailand; tropics; urban area; Viet Nam
来源期刊	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/238626
作者单位	University of Sydney, School of Geosciences, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Penny D.,Beach T.P.. Historical socioecological transformations in the global tropics as an Anthropocene analogue[J],2021,118(40).
APA	Penny D.,&Beach T.P..(2021).Historical socioecological transformations in the global tropics as an Anthropocene analogue.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,118(40).
MLA	Penny D.,et al."Historical socioecological transformations in the global tropics as an Anthropocene analogue".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118.40(2021).