Using palaeo-environmental proxies to reconstruct natural and anthropogenic controls on sedimentation rates, Tell es-Safi/Gath, eastern Mediterranean

Ackermann, Oren; Greenbaum, Noam; Ayalon, Avner; Bar‐Matthews, Miryam; Bruins, Hendrik J.; Cabanes, Dan; Horwitz, Liora Kolska; Neumann, Frank; Porat, Naomi; Weiss, Ehud; Maeir, Aren M.

doi:10.1016/j.ancene.2015.03.004

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“…The siege of ancient Tell es-Safi/Gath ended with the destruction of the city. In the subsequent period, materials eroded from the site, probably the remains of the mudbricks from the city's buildings, and collected in the valley at the foot of the site (Ackermann et al, 2014a;2014b).…”

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The Paleo-Anthropocene and the Genesis of the Current Landscape of Israel

Ackermann

Maeir

Frumin

et al. 2017

Journal of Landscape Ecology

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Worldwide, human impact on natural landscapes has intensified since prehistoric times, and this is well documented in the global archaeological record. The period between the earliest hominids and the Industrial Revolution of the late 18-19 th centuries is known as the Paleo-Anthropocene. The current study reviews key geoarchaeological, floral and faunal factors of the Paleo-Anthropocene in Israel, an area that has undergone human activities in various intensities since prehistoric times. It discusses significant human imprints on these three features in the Israeli landscape, demonstrating that its current form is almost entirely anthropogenic. Moreover, some of the past physical changes still dynamically shape Israel's zoological, archaeological and geomorphic landscape today. It is hoped that insights from this article might aid in guiding present-day management strategies of undeveloped areas through renewal of human activity guided by traditional knowledge.

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The Paleo-Anthropocene and the Genesis of the Current Landscape of Israel

Ackermann

Maeir

Frumin

et al. 2017

Journal of Landscape Ecology

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“…Ever since Claudio Vita-Finzi's seminal book The Mediterranean valleys: geological changes in historical times [1], the varying importance of climate and human control on soil erosion by water in the Mediterranean region has been discussed [2][3][4][5][6]. In a review on Holocene environmental change in the eastern Mediterranean, Dusar et al [7] identified several phases in which sediment dynamics changed.…”

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Meta-Analysis of Geomorphodynamics in the Western Lower Bakırçay Plain (Aegean Region, Turkey)

Becker

Knitter

Nykamp

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The relation between human activities, climate variability, and geomorphodynamics in the Mediterranean region is widely discussed. For the western lower Bakırçay plain in the ancient Pergamon Micro-Region, geoarchaeological studies have shown changes in geomorphodynamics primarily on a site-basis. We reconstruct past geomorphodynamics in the area based on a meta-analysis of 108 14C-ages obtained from 25 sediment sequences mainly from colluvial and alluvial deposits by analyzing cumulative probability functions of the 14C-ages. Accounting for biases in the database, we applied different approaches and compared the empirical probability functions with simulated functions. Reconstructed geomorphodynamics in the western lower Bakırçay plain during the Holocene principally coincide with a trend of climate-driven sensitivity to erosion and population dynamics in the eastern Mediterranean, but are also related to the local settlement history. Our data analysis shows that transformations of the Pergamon Micro-Region between the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial times is contemporary to increasing geomorphodynamics that peak in Roman Imperial times. However, a cause–effect relationship between geomorphodynamics and settlement dynamics should be further evaluated. A comparison with data from other settlement centers in Anatolia shows that a coincidence between the peak in geomorphodynamics and a peak in settlement activity are not obvious and may be influenced by soil conservation measures, preferred settlement location, and inherited soil exhaustion.

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“…This study focuses on the area to the south of ancient Caesarea, Israel (3230'0" N, 3453'30" E), a well-known Roman to Crusader period (31 BCE to 1265 CE) urban centre. The continuous efforts of the local population to adapt their activities to both their varying needs and changing natural environments has resulted in human-induced landscape changes, giving rise to a complex cause-effect phenomena (Ackermann et al, 2014(Ackermann et al, , 2015. This study investigates the effect of human settlement on the proximate environment, outside the settlement itself, through analysis of anthropogenic markers present within the local sediment stratigraphy.…”

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Anthropogenic overprints on natural coastal aeolian sediments: A study from the periphery of ancient Caesarea, Israel

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Using palaeo-environmental proxies to reconstruct natural and anthropogenic controls on sedimentation rates, Tell es-Safi/Gath, eastern Mediterranean

Cited by 19 publications

References 68 publications

The Paleo-Anthropocene and the Genesis of the Current Landscape of Israel

The Paleo-Anthropocene and the Genesis of the Current Landscape of Israel

Meta-Analysis of Geomorphodynamics in the Western Lower Bakırçay Plain (Aegean Region, Turkey)

Anthropogenic overprints on natural coastal aeolian sediments: A study from the periphery of ancient Caesarea, Israel

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