A5030031295- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Archaeological and Historical Studies
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Polar Research and Ecology
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Marine and environmental studies
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Ancient Near East History
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Water management and technologies
- Eurasian Exchange Networks
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Water resources management and optimization
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Language and cultural evolution
AnthroTronix (United States)
2023
University of Geneva
2021-2023
Plant (United States)
2022
Universität Hamburg
2016-2020
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2018
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
2010-2016
Institución Milá y Fontanals de Investigación en Humanidades
2010-2016
Institute of Geography
2016
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
2015
Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas y Ambientales de Barcelona
2013
Balbo, A. L., E. Gómez-Baggethun, M. Salpeteur, Puy, S. Biagetti, and J. Scheffran. 2016. Resilience of small-scale societies: a view from drylands. Ecology Society 21(2):53.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08327-210253
Abstract The fast and broad adoption of mechanization chemical inputs in Mediterranean terraced agriculture, combined with warming climate trends, has led to the progressive degradation environmental social conditions. These factors have concurred increasing abandonment smallholder agriculture. We aimed detect quantify progression cultivated abandoned fields Ricote Valley between 2016 2019 while also exploring reasons for land over past decades. To agricultural terraces, we conducted (1) a...
Cultural adaptation has become central in the context of accelerated global change with authors increasingly acknowledging importance understanding multilevel processes that operate as takes place. We explore explaining cultural by describing how leading to (mis)adaptation are linked through a complex nested hierarchy, where lower levels combine into new units organizations, functions, and emergent properties or collective behaviours. After brief review concept "cultural adaptation" from...
Land fragmentation is widespread in traditional field systems of the Mediterranean region. A typical case for high fragmented properties Valley Ricote. It dominated by smallholder agriculture. To promote smart sustainable development rural areas it important to address specific needs these small agricultural producers; especially considering that agriculture most consumer water worldwide and great majority farms are production units extending over <2 ha. Indeed, land fragmentation, resulting...
The study of the technology underlying pre-industrial storage structures has an interest from anthropological and archaeological perspective, in terms evolution key cultural cognitive capabilities, often related to transition food production.Microarchaeological techniques offer a unique perspective on storing technologies. In this work, examples are presented two contexts different climatic socio-ecological situations during Holocene S Asia SW Europe. Microarchaeological used include...
Abstract The first reconnaissance survey of the Wadi ash-Shati, northernmost line oases Fazzan, was carried out in 2007 and 2008. This aimed to locate archaeological sites Garamantian historic periods a region that, despite being on record as most populated Fazzan period, never previously systematically surveyed. Following field survey, further examination high-resolution satellite imagery out. allowed for discovery more detailed tracing number cemeteries that were only partially surveyed...
Understanding the patterns and processes underlying heterogeneous distribution of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) across communities natural resource users is a growing research topic. However, social organization as factor potentially shaping TEK intracultural has received scant attention. Here, we analyze role played by kinship groups—namely, patrilineal lineages segments—in bodies among group seminomadic pastoralists in India. We use two quantitative approaches (score based...
A consistent access to food is paramount for humans at individual and group level. Besides providing the basic nutritional needs, defines social structures has stimulated innovation in procurement, processing storage. We focus on aspects of storage, namely role cooperation emergence maintenance common stocks. Cooperative stocks are examined here as a type common-pool resource, where appropriators must cooperate avoid shortage (i.e. tragedy commons). 'Food all' an agent-based model which...
We present the results of microstratigraphic, phytolith and wood charcoal study remains a 10.5 ka roof. The roof is part building excavated at Tell Qarassa (South Syria), assigned to Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period (PPNB). (PPN) in Levant coincides with emergence farming. This fundamental change subsistence strategy implied shift from mobile settled aggregated life, tents huts hard buildings. As life spread across Levant, generalised transition round square buildings occurred, that trademark...
This work explores the spatial distribution of monsoonal flooded areas using ENVISAT C-band Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) in semi-arid region N. Gujarat, India. The amplitude component SAR Single Look Complex (SLC) images has been used to estimate extent surface and near-surface water dynamics mean (MA) (July September) post-monsoonal (October January) seasons. integration SAR-derived maps (seasonal flooding seasonal MA change) with archaeological data provided new insights...