Adaptive Capacity of Prehistoric Coastal Communities to Environmental Changes
A special issue of Quaternary (ISSN 2571-550X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2020) | Viewed by 5104
Special Issue Editors
2. Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
Interests: sediment archive; geomorphology; human-environment interaction; Holocene
Interests: costal archaeology; human-environment interaction; marine invertebrates; Holocene
2. Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social (IPHES), Zona Educacional 4, Campus Sescelades URV, edifici W3, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
3. URV, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Facultat de Lletres, Avinguda Catalunya, 35, 43002 Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
Interests: pollen analysis; climate change; human-environment interaction; Pleistocene; Holocene
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue that aims to decipher the adaptive capacity of prehistoric coastal communities to the effect of the sea-level change and related phenomena.
Past socio-ecological adaptation to sea-level rise has emerged as a key field of study to investigate the sensitivity of human systems to global climate changes. Indeed, following the last glaciation, the melting of ice sheets induced a rapid sea-level rise, drastically modifying the configuration of coastal areas. The consequences of this sea-level rise not only consisted of changes in the territory occupied by prehistoric communities, but also induced changes in the availability of environmental resources, which could have had threatened the adaptive capacity of coastal human communities. By gathering case studies on this topic, this Special Issue aims to improve our understanding of the modality and rhythm of socio-ecological responses to sea-level rise, which is of major importance in the current context of global environmental changes.
We thus encourage the submission of original manuscripts that contribute to better understanding past human–environment feedbacks in coastal areas.
Dr. Elodie Brisset
Dr. Catherine Dupont
Dr. Francesc Burjachs
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- archaeology
- socio-ecological interaction
- exploitation strategy
- environmental resources
- sea-level change
- climate change
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