The emergence and intensification of early hunter-gatherer niche construction

doi:10.1002/evan.21877

CORC > 地球环境研究所 > 中国科学院地球环境研究所 > 黄土与第四纪地质国家重点实验室（2010~）

	The emergence and intensification of early hunter-gatherer niche construction
	Thompson, Jessica C.3; Wright, David K.4,5; Ivory, Sarah J.1,2
刊名	EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY
	2020-12-19
页码	11
关键词	burning environmental impacts foragers middle stone age modern human Pleistocene
ISSN号	1060-1538
DOI	10.1002/evan.21877
通讯作者	Thompson, Jessica C.(jessica.thompson@yale.edu)
英文摘要	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.
WOS关键词	MIDDLE STONE-AGE ; REGIME SHIFTS ; ECOLOGICAL THRESHOLDS ; TROPHIC CASCADES ; LATE PLEISTOCENE ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; FIRE REGIMES ; EVOLUTION ; PLANT ; CULTURE
WOS研究方向	Anthropology
语种	英语
出版者	WILEY
WOS记录号	WOS:000600061000001
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.ieecas.cn/handle/361006/15714]
专题	地球环境研究所_黄土与第四纪地质国家重点实验室（2010~）
通讯作者	Thompson, Jessica C.
作者单位	1.Penn State Univ, Dept Geosci, University Pk, PA 16802 USA 2.Penn State Univ, Earth & Environm Sci Inst, University Pk, PA 16802 USA 3.Yale Univ, Dept Anthropol, New Haven, CT 06511 USA 4.Univ Oslo, Dept Archaeol Conservat & Hist, Oslo, Norway 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Earth Environm, State Key Lab Loess & Quaternary Geol, Xian, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Thompson, Jessica C.,Wright, David K.,Ivory, Sarah J.. The emergence and intensification of early hunter-gatherer niche construction[J]. EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY,2020:11.
APA	Thompson, Jessica C.,Wright, David K.,&Ivory, Sarah J..(2020).The emergence and intensification of early hunter-gatherer niche construction.EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY,11.
MLA	Thompson, Jessica C.,et al."The emergence and intensification of early hunter-gatherer niche construction".EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY (2020):11.