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Early human impacts and ecosystem reorganization in southern-central Africa.
Thompson, Jessica C; Wright, David K; Ivory, Sarah J; Choi, Jeong-Heon; Nightingale, Sheila; Mackay, Alex; Schilt, Flora; Otárola-Castillo, Erik; Mercader, Julio; Forman, Steven L; Pietsch, Timothy; Cohen, Andrew S; Arrowsmith, J Ramón; Welling, Menno; Davis, Jacob; Schiery, Benjamin; Kaliba, Potiphar; Malijani, Oris; Blome, Margaret W; O'Driscoll, Corey A; Mentzer, Susan M; Miller, Christopher; Heo, Seoyoung; Choi, Jungyu; Tembo, Joseph; Mapemba, Fredrick; Simengwa, Davie; Gomani-Chindebvu, Elizabeth.
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  • Thompson JC; Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. jessica.thompson@yale.edu david.wright@iakh.uio.no sji15@psu.edu.
  • Wright DK; Institute of Human Origins, P.O. Box 874101, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.
  • Ivory SJ; Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. jessica.thompson@yale.edu david.wright@iakh.uio.no sji15@psu.edu.
  • Choi JH; State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xian, China.
  • Nightingale S; Department of Geosciences and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA. jessica.thompson@yale.edu david.wright@iakh.uio.no sji15@psu.edu.
  • Mackay A; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Korea Basic Science Institute, Ochang, Republic of Korea.
  • Schilt F; Department of Anthropology, City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York, NY, USA.
  • Otárola-Castillo E; Centre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
  • Mercader J; Institute for Archaeological Sciences and Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
  • Forman SL; Universidade do Algarve, Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behavior (ICArEHB), FCHS, Campus Gambelas, J27, Faro 8005-139, Portugal.
  • Pietsch T; Department of Anthropology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
  • Cohen AS; Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
  • Arrowsmith JR; Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.
  • Welling M; Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES), Zona Educacional, 4-Campus Sescelades URV (Edifici W3), 43007 Tarragona, Spain.
  • Davis J; Department of Geosciences, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA.
  • Schiery B; Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
  • Kaliba P; Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
  • Malijani O; School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
  • Blome MW; Reinwardt Academy, Amsterdam University of the Arts, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • O'Driscoll CA; African Heritage Ltd., Box 622, Zomba, Malawi.
  • Mentzer SM; Independent Researcher, New Haven, CT, USA.
  • Miller C; Biostatistics Department, Medpace Inc., Cincinnati, OH, USA.
  • Heo S; Malawi Department of Museums and Monuments, Lilongwe, Malawi.
  • Choi J; Malawi Department of Museums and Monuments, Lilongwe, Malawi.
  • Tembo J; Department of Geological Sciences, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA.
  • Mapemba F; Centre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
  • Simengwa D; Institute for Archaeological Sciences and Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
  • Gomani-Chindebvu E; School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Sci Adv ; 7(19)2021 05.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33952528
ABSTRACT
Modern Homo sapiens engage in substantial ecosystem modification, but it is difficult to detect the origins or early consequences of these behaviors. Archaeological, geochronological, geomorphological, and paleoenvironmental data from northern Malawi document a changing relationship between forager presence, ecosystem organization, and alluvial fan formation in the Late Pleistocene. Dense concentrations of Middle Stone Age artifacts and alluvial fan systems formed after ca. 92 thousand years ago, within a paleoecological context with no analog in the preceding half-million-year record. Archaeological data and principal coordinates analysis indicate that early anthropogenic fire relaxed seasonal constraints on ignitions, influencing vegetation composition and erosion. This operated in tandem with climate-driven changes in precipitation to culminate in an ecological transition to an early, pre-agricultural anthropogenic landscape.
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