The emergence and intensification of early hunter-gatherer niche construction
© 2020 Wiley Periodicals LLC..
Hunter-gatherers, especially Pleistocene examples, are not well-represented in archeological studies of niche construction. However, as the role of humans in shaping environments over long time scales becomes increasingly apparent, it is critical to develop archeological proxies and testable hypotheses about early hunter-gatherer impacts. Modern foragers engage in niche constructive behaviors aimed at maintaining or increasing the productivity of their environments, and these may have had significant ecological consequences over later human evolution. In some cases, they may also represent behaviors unique to modern Homo sapiens. Archeological and paleoenvironmental data show that African hunter-gatherers were niche constructors in diverse environments, which have legacies in how ecosystems function today. These can be conceptualized as behaviorally mediated trophic cascades, and tested using archeological and paleoenvironmental proxies. Thus, large-scale niche construction behavior is possible to identify at deeper time scales, and may be key to understanding the emergence of modern humans.
| Medienart: |
E-Artikel |
|---|
| Erscheinungsjahr: |
2021 |
|---|---|
| Erschienen: |
2021 |
| Enthalten in: |
Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:30 |
|---|---|
| Enthalten in: |
Evolutionary anthropology - 30(2021), 1 vom: 15. Jan., Seite 17-27 |
| Sprache: |
Englisch |
|---|
| Beteiligte Personen: |
Thompson, Jessica C [VerfasserIn] |
|---|
| Links: |
|---|
| Themen: |
Burning |
|---|
| Anmerkungen: |
Date Completed 15.03.2021 Date Revised 15.03.2021 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
|---|
| doi: |
10.1002/evan.21877 |
|---|
| funding: |
|
|---|---|
| Förderinstitution / Projekttitel: |
|
| PPN (Katalog-ID): |
NLM31905957X |
|---|
| LEADER | 01000naa a22002652 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | NLM31905957X | ||
| 003 | DE-627 | ||
| 005 | 20231225170644.0 | ||
| 007 | cr uuu---uuuuu | ||
| 008 | 231225s2021 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c | ||
| 024 | 7 | |a 10.1002/evan.21877 |2 doi | |
| 028 | 5 | 2 | |a pubmed24n1063.xml |
| 035 | |a (DE-627)NLM31905957X | ||
| 035 | |a (NLM)33341104 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-627 |b ger |c DE-627 |e rakwb | ||
| 041 | |a eng | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Thompson, Jessica C |e verfasserin |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The emergence and intensification of early hunter-gatherer niche construction |
| 264 | 1 | |c 2021 | |
| 336 | |a Text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a ƒaComputermedien |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a ƒa Online-Ressource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 500 | |a Date Completed 15.03.2021 | ||
| 500 | |a Date Revised 15.03.2021 | ||
| 500 | |a published: Print-Electronic | ||
| 500 | |a Citation Status MEDLINE | ||
| 520 | |a © 2020 Wiley Periodicals LLC. | ||
| 520 | |a Hunter-gatherers, especially Pleistocene examples, are not well-represented in archeological studies of niche construction. However, as the role of humans in shaping environments over long time scales becomes increasingly apparent, it is critical to develop archeological proxies and testable hypotheses about early hunter-gatherer impacts. Modern foragers engage in niche constructive behaviors aimed at maintaining or increasing the productivity of their environments, and these may have had significant ecological consequences over later human evolution. In some cases, they may also represent behaviors unique to modern Homo sapiens. Archeological and paleoenvironmental data show that African hunter-gatherers were niche constructors in diverse environments, which have legacies in how ecosystems function today. These can be conceptualized as behaviorally mediated trophic cascades, and tested using archeological and paleoenvironmental proxies. Thus, large-scale niche construction behavior is possible to identify at deeper time scales, and may be key to understanding the emergence of modern humans | ||
| 650 | 4 | |a Journal Article | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Pleistocene | |
| 650 | 4 | |a burning | |
| 650 | 4 | |a environmental impacts | |
| 650 | 4 | |a foragers | |
| 650 | 4 | |a middle stone age | |
| 650 | 4 | |a modern human | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Wright, David K |e verfasserin |4 aut | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Ivory, Sarah J |e verfasserin |4 aut | |
| 773 | 0 | 8 | |i Enthalten in |t Evolutionary anthropology |d 1993 |g 30(2021), 1 vom: 15. Jan., Seite 17-27 |w (DE-627)NLM09258666X |x 1520-6505 |7 nnns |
| 773 | 1 | 8 | |g volume:30 |g year:2021 |g number:1 |g day:15 |g month:01 |g pages:17-27 |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/evan.21877 |3 Volltext |
| 912 | |a GBV_USEFLAG_A | ||
| 912 | |a GBV_NLM | ||
| 951 | |a AR | ||
| 952 | |d 30 |j 2021 |e 1 |b 15 |c 01 |h 17-27 | ||