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Session 7: Impacts of past agro-pastoral activities on the structure of landscapes

Salomé Granai¹, Dominique Schwartz², Julian Wiethold³ et Julie Morin-Rivat⁴

Since the Neolithic period and the emergence of agriculture and pastoralism, human societies have been involved in the modification of landscapes. This anthropisation is perceived through the analyses of the sediments and their organic archives. The nature, duration and recurrence of human activities are key parameters in determining the influence of human disturbance on the structure of landscapes. In addition, the state of biotopes and soils before being impacted by human societies, as well as regional climate variations, are other parameters to be considered in this assessment of human-induced landscape dynamics.

Studies in historical ecology, as well as palaeoenvironmental, geomorphological and pedological approaches, preferably using multi-proxies, are expected to highlight the long-term impact of past anthropogenic activities on landscapes dynamics. Examples from different archaeological cultures and from different parts of the world are welcome. Bringing together areas with different cultural, ecological and climatic contexts in the same session aims to give an insight into the broad range of expressions of anthropisation as well as of the multiple approaches enabling their reconstruction.

1 - GéoArchÉon/UMR 8591 Laboratoire de Géographie Physique : Environnements quaternaires et actuels, CNRS, Université Paris 1, UPEC, Meudon

2 - Faculté de Géographie et d'Aménagement, UNISTRA, LIVE UMR 7362, Strasbourg 

3 - Inrap Grand Est/UMR 6298 ArTeHiS, Dijon

4 - PhD, independant researcher