H2020Индивидуална стипендия2020–2022

GEOLAKE · Exploring the onset of Anthropocene in the Upper Jordan valley (Hula lake)

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2020-10-01 → 2022-10-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 172 932 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Влиянието на хората и климата върху природата в горната част на долината на Йордан се проследява чрез анализи на седименти и археологически находища. Това помага да се разбере кога точно човешката дейност е започнала да променя глобално околната среда.

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Резултати накратко

Exploring the onset of Anthropocene in the Upper Jordan valley (Hula lake)

Where, when and how have ancient societies transformed their natural environment? What was the spatial extent and frequency of these changes? The project GEOLAKE “Exploring the onset of Anthropocene in the Upper Jordan valley” proposed to investigate, characterize and quantify the relative impact of human activities and climate variations in the palaeoenvironments of the Upper Jordan Valley (Israel). In this part of the Levant, the Holocene is a key period during which environmental changes and human pressures profoundly transformed local ecosystems. From a broader perspective, the aim was to provide new data allowing to better constrain the concept of the (Palaeo)Anthropocene. By analyzing changes in the environment and changes in the human occupation pattern at the local scale, we aims to disentangle the effects of climate change and anthropogenic activities on the environment and to highlight the long-term adaptation of populations in the Upper Jordan valley. For that we used archaeological, sedimentary, palaeoecological and geochemical proxies. The lacustrine archives of the Hula valley have been used to reconstruct with a high-resolution the human-environment dynamics over the last 7000 years. Archaeological sites from the shores of the Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret) have been used to reconstruct changes in the level of the lake during the past 3000 years.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The overriding aim of GEOLAKE is to disentangle the effects of climate change and anthropogenic activities on the environment and to highlight the long-term adaptation of populations in the Upper Jordan Valley (Israel) using sedimentary, palaeoecological and geochemical proxies from the lake Hula as unique case-study example. The lacustrine archives of the Hula will facilitate a high-resolution reconstruction of human-environment dynamics since the emergence of the region’s first complex societies in the Early Neolithic. In this part of the Levant, the Holocene is a key period during which environmental changes and human pressures profoundly transformed local ecosystems providing new key knowledge to constrain the concept of the Anthropocene in the region. The comparison of palaeoenvironmental data generated within the framework of our project with archaeological and historical evidence will allow us to develop an innovative “local human occupation index” to understand the evolution of the human pressures in the Hula catchment and to propose models looking to: (1) understand how ancient societies perceived and reacted in the face of environmental and climatic changes; (2) understand how they lastingly modified their environment; (3) estimate how their methods of environmental management were influenced by external variations. The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) is the ideal institutional environment to develop the proposed research during the course of the fellowship and beyond. The researcher will be trained and integrated into in a strong collaborative and multidisciplinary network. This fellowship will reinforce the research experience, transferrable skills, audience and outreach, and will thus be crucial for his future career. Furthermore, the project will rest upon strong collaborations with Israeli scientists who are excavating in the region since several decades.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA · Cerdanyola Del VallesКоординаторИспания