From hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies to the Agricultural Revolution: Disentangling Energy Regimes as a complement to cultural phases in Northern Spain
The Holocene is defined by the impact of agricultural societies on their natural environments and resources, a paradigmatic shift triggered by the Agricultural Revolution. In Cantabrian Spain, the adoption of a sedentary economy (ca. 7000 cal yr BP) remains misunderstood, with contemporary Mesolithi...
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ftunivevora:oai:dspace.uevora.pt:10174/32203 2023-09-05T13:23:42+02:00 From hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies to the Agricultural Revolution: Disentangling Energy Regimes as a complement to cultural phases in Northern Spain Martinez, Alexandre Kluiving, Sjoerd Muñoz-Rojas, José Borja Barrera, César Fraile Jurado, Pablo 2022-06-04 http://hdl.handle.net/10174/32203 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09596836221095990 https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221095990 por por Sage Journals Martinez, A., Kluiving. S.J., Muñoz-Rojas, J., Borja Barrera, C., Fraile Jurado, P (2022). From hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies to the Agricultural Revolution: Disentangling Energy Regimes as a complement to cultural phases in Northern Spain.The Holocene. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221095990 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09596836221095990 http://hdl.handle.net/10174/32203 almartinezcontact@gmail.com s.j.kluiving@vu.nl jmrojas@uevora.pt cesarborja@us.es pfraile@us.es 372 https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221095990 restrictedAccess Agricultural Revolution Energy Regimes Hunter-Gatherers Neolithization Subsistence Strategies article 2022 ftunivevora https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221095990 2023-08-14T17:49:43Z The Holocene is defined by the impact of agricultural societies on their natural environments and resources, a paradigmatic shift triggered by the Agricultural Revolution. In Cantabrian Spain, the adoption of a sedentary economy (ca. 7000 cal yr BP) remains misunderstood, with contemporary Mesolithic and Neolithic sites apparently random dispersed. Energy Regimes, a time-independent and functional analysis of past societies, considers two cultures that cohabit and/or cooperate, based on their differential pattern of use of energy and resources, as well as on the variation in land-use strategies. We test and implement the framework of Energy Regimes through a targeted review, to examine the hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies in Cantabrian Spain. Archeological proxies such as demography, mobility, complexity of society, economy, and overexploitation of resources identified in 95 articles and books, allow us to apply Energy Regimes to reexamine transitions in hunter-gatherer societies. Neolithization in Cantabrian Spain is the result of a long process that started with the Solutrean cultural phase ca. 24,000 cal yr BP, during the Last Glacial Maximum. Hunter-gatherers developed onward novel subsistence strategies with subtle changes in energy use until the transition toward a sedentary economy. Energy Regimes provide new insights for other regional contexts where time-bounded analyses conceal the complexity of energy transition processes in Europe and beyond. The research presented in this paper has been undertaken within the project TERRANOVA: the European Landscape Learning Initiative, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions–Innovative Training Networks MSCA-ITN, under the grant agreement No 813904. In addition, work by JMROJAS has been funded by the Portuguese FCT (UIDB/05183/2020) Article in Journal/Newspaper Terranova Repositório Científico da Universidade de Évora The Holocene 32 8 884 896 |
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The Holocene is defined by the impact of agricultural societies on their natural environments and resources, a paradigmatic shift triggered by the Agricultural Revolution. In Cantabrian Spain, the adoption of a sedentary economy (ca. 7000 cal yr BP) remains misunderstood, with contemporary Mesolithic and Neolithic sites apparently random dispersed. Energy Regimes, a time-independent and functional analysis of past societies, considers two cultures that cohabit and/or cooperate, based on their differential pattern of use of energy and resources, as well as on the variation in land-use strategies. We test and implement the framework of Energy Regimes through a targeted review, to examine the hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies in Cantabrian Spain. Archeological proxies such as demography, mobility, complexity of society, economy, and overexploitation of resources identified in 95 articles and books, allow us to apply Energy Regimes to reexamine transitions in hunter-gatherer societies. Neolithization in Cantabrian Spain is the result of a long process that started with the Solutrean cultural phase ca. 24,000 cal yr BP, during the Last Glacial Maximum. Hunter-gatherers developed onward novel subsistence strategies with subtle changes in energy use until the transition toward a sedentary economy. Energy Regimes provide new insights for other regional contexts where time-bounded analyses conceal the complexity of energy transition processes in Europe and beyond. The research presented in this paper has been undertaken within the project TERRANOVA: the European Landscape Learning Initiative, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions–Innovative Training Networks MSCA-ITN, under the grant agreement No 813904. In addition, work by JMROJAS has been funded by the Portuguese FCT (UIDB/05183/2020) |
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From hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies to the Agricultural Revolution: Disentangling Energy Regimes as a complement to cultural phases in Northern Spain |
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From hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies to the Agricultural Revolution: Disentangling Energy Regimes as a complement to cultural phases in Northern Spain |
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From hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies to the Agricultural Revolution: Disentangling Energy Regimes as a complement to cultural phases in Northern Spain |
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Martinez, A., Kluiving. S.J., Muñoz-Rojas, J., Borja Barrera, C., Fraile Jurado, P (2022). From hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies to the Agricultural Revolution: Disentangling Energy Regimes as a complement to cultural phases in Northern Spain.The Holocene. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221095990 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09596836221095990 http://hdl.handle.net/10174/32203 almartinezcontact@gmail.com s.j.kluiving@vu.nl jmrojas@uevora.pt cesarborja@us.es pfraile@us.es 372 https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221095990 |
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