<i>ECOLOGICAL DEGRADATION AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN SOUTHEASTERN IBERIA DURING THE LAST 4000 YEARS</i>

Authors

  • Noemí Fuentes Molina
  • María Soledad García-Martínez
  • Penélope González-Sampériz
  • Santiago Fernández
  • José Sebastián Carrión García
  • Manuel López-Campuzano
  • Javier Medina
Keywords: palynology, palaeoecology, southeastern Iberia, ecological degradation

Abstract

Here we present the pollen sequence from Carril de Caldereros (Lorca, Murcia), involving one of the first palaeoenvironmental records for the second half of the Holocene in semi-arid southeastern Iberia, within a relatively continental territory adjacent to fluvial basin. This sequence shows that, while the palaeoclimatic context is one of progressive aridification, anthropogenic disturbance was a first-order factor in shaping landscape change. It is suggested that the onset of the Holocene ecological degradation took place about 4600 cal yr BP, in correlation with the Calcolithic archaeological period.

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Noemí Fuentes Molina

Universidad de Murcia

María Soledad García-Martínez

Universidad de Murcia

Penélope González-Sampériz

Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología-CSIC

Santiago Fernández

Universidad de Murcia

José Sebastián Carrión García

Universidad de Murcia

Manuel López-Campuzano

Universidad de Murcia

Javier Medina

Universidad de Murcia
How to Cite
Fuentes Molina, N., García-Martínez, M. S., González-Sampériz, P., Fernández, S., Carrión García, J. S., López-Campuzano, M., & Medina, J. (2005). <i>ECOLOGICAL DEGRADATION AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN SOUTHEASTERN IBERIA DURING THE LAST 4000 YEARS</i>. Anales de Biología, (27), 69–84. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/analesbio/article/view/28001
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