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SUBMITTER: Kaniewski D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3866597 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kaniewski David D Van Campo Elise E Morhange Christophe C Guiot Joël J Zviely Dov D Shaked Idan I Otto Thierry T Artzy Michal M
Scientific reports 20131218
A common belief is that, unlike today, ancient urban areas developed in a sustainable way within the environmental limits of local natural resources and the ecosystem's capacity to respond. This long-held paradigm is based on a weak knowledge of the processes underpinning the emergence of urban life and the rise of an urban-adapted environment in and beyond city boundaries. Here, we report a 6000-year record of environmental changes around the port city of Akko (Acre), Israel, to analyse ecologi ...[more]