Land Use Legacies and Historical Cultural Landscape
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 2801
Special Issue Editors
Interests: settlement systems; demographic responses to climate change; radiocarbon dates; computational approaches to archaeology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The legacy of past human land use in modern ecosystems is increasingly being recognized throughout the world. Many environments previously thought to be pristine are now understood to have been partly shaped by human cultivation, terraforming and landscape management. Understanding past human adaptation to and modification of various ecosystems, and the footprint of such practices in the modern landscape, is crucial for informing sustainable land use policies.
Land is an international, cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to land management, landscape, land–climate interactions and other topics in land system science. In this Special Issue, we broaden that scope to include a deep historical perspective highlighting the role of past human activities in the formation of modern ecosystems. We encourage the submission of papers that have a deep temporal perspective, with a focus on the persistence of human landscape modification and how the signal of ancient land use can be detected in the modern environment.
We invite papers on a wide range of topics including, but not restricted to, landscape archaeology, historical ecology, niche construction theory, archaeobotany and palaeoecology, remote sensing, responses to climate change and land use models.
Dr. Jonas Gregorio De Souza
Prof. Dr. Marco Madella
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- landscape archaeology
- palaeoecology
- archaeobotany
- historical ecology
- human-environment interactions
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