Human ecological niches and ranges during the LGM in Europe derived from an application of eco-cultural niche modeling
International audience We apply eco-cultural niche modeling (ECNM), an heuristic approach adapted from the biodiversity sciences, to identify habitable portions of the European territory for Upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherers during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), circumscribe potential geographic e...
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International audience We apply eco-cultural niche modeling (ECNM), an heuristic approach adapted from the biodiversity sciences, to identify habitable portions of the European territory for Upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherers during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), circumscribe potential geographic extents of the Solutrean and Epigravettian technocomplexes, evaluate environmental and adaptive factors that influenced their distributions, and discuss this method's potential to illuminate past human-environment interaction. Our ECNM approach employed the Genetic Algorithm for Rule-Set Prediction (GARP) and used as input a combination of archaeological and geographic data, in conjunction with high-resolution paleoclimatic simulations for this time frame. The archaeological data consist of geographic coordinates of sites dated by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry to the LGM and attributed to the Solutrean and Epigravettian technocomplexes. The areas predicted by ECNM consistently outline the northern boundary of human presence at 22,000–20,000 cal BP. This boundary is mainly determined by climatic constraints and corresponds well to known southern limits of periglacial environments and permafrost conditions during the LGM. Differences between predicted ecological niches and known ranges of the Solutrean and Epigravettian technocomplexes are interpreted as Solutrean populations being adapted to colder and more humid environments and as reflecting influences of ecological risk on geographic distributions of cultures. |
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Human ecological niches and ranges during the LGM in Europe derived from an application of eco-cultural niche modeling |
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Human ecological niches and ranges during the LGM in Europe derived from an application of eco-cultural niche modeling |
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Human ecological niches and ranges during the LGM in Europe derived from an application of eco-cultural niche modeling |
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ftinstitutnrap:oai:HAL:hal-00230115v1 2023-05-15T17:57:55+02:00 Human ecological niches and ranges during the LGM in Europe derived from an application of eco-cultural niche modeling Banks, William E. d'Errico, Francesco Peterson, A. Townsend Vanhaeren, Marian Kageyama, M. Sepulchre, P. Ramstein, G. Jost, Anne Lunt, Daniel De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA) Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) University of Kansas Lawrence (KU) Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité (ArScAn) Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement Gif-sur-Yvette (LSCE) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Modélisation du climat (CLIM) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Structure et fonctionnement des systèmes hydriques continentaux (SISYPHE) Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) School of Geographical Sciences Bristol University of Bristol Bristol 2008-01-18 https://hal.science/hal-00230115 https://hal.science/hal-00230115/document https://hal.science/hal-00230115/file/JASC07-47.pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2007.05.011 en eng HAL CCSD Elsevier info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.jas.2007.05.011 hal-00230115 https://hal.science/hal-00230115 https://hal.science/hal-00230115/document https://hal.science/hal-00230115/file/JASC07-47.pdf doi:10.1016/j.jas.2007.05.011 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 0305-4403 EISSN: 1095-9238 Journal of Archaeological Science https://hal.science/hal-00230115 Journal of Archaeological Science, 2008, 35 (2), pp.481-491. ⟨10.1016/j.jas.2007.05.011⟩ Eco-Cultural niche modeling GARP LGM Solutrean Epigravettian Western Europe Upper Paleolithic Human Adaptation [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2008 ftinstitutnrap https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2007.05.011 2023-03-15T17:22:41Z International audience We apply eco-cultural niche modeling (ECNM), an heuristic approach adapted from the biodiversity sciences, to identify habitable portions of the European territory for Upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherers during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), circumscribe potential geographic extents of the Solutrean and Epigravettian technocomplexes, evaluate environmental and adaptive factors that influenced their distributions, and discuss this method's potential to illuminate past human-environment interaction. Our ECNM approach employed the Genetic Algorithm for Rule-Set Prediction (GARP) and used as input a combination of archaeological and geographic data, in conjunction with high-resolution paleoclimatic simulations for this time frame. The archaeological data consist of geographic coordinates of sites dated by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry to the LGM and attributed to the Solutrean and Epigravettian technocomplexes. The areas predicted by ECNM consistently outline the northern boundary of human presence at 22,000–20,000 cal BP. This boundary is mainly determined by climatic constraints and corresponds well to known southern limits of periglacial environments and permafrost conditions during the LGM. Differences between predicted ecological niches and known ranges of the Solutrean and Epigravettian technocomplexes are interpreted as Solutrean populations being adapted to colder and more humid environments and as reflecting influences of ecological risk on geographic distributions of cultures. Article in Journal/Newspaper permafrost INRAP: HAL (Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives) Journal of Archaeological Science 35 2 481 491 |