Palaeoenvironmental proxies indicate long-term development of agro-pastoralist landscapes in Inner Asian mountains.

ABSTRACT: A growing body of archaeological research on agro-pastoralist populations of the Inner Asian mountains indicates that these groups adapted various systems of mobile herding and cultivation to ecotopes across the region from as early as 5000 BP. It has been argued that these adaptations allowed the development of flexible social-ecological systems well suited to the long-term management of these mountain landscapes. At present, less attention has been paid to examining the long-term ecological legacy of these adaptations within the sedimentary or palaeoenvironmental record. Here we present sediment, palynomorph and charcoal data that we interpret as indicating agro-pastoralist environmental perturbations, taken from three cores at middle and high altitudes in the Kashmir Valley at the south

SUBMITTER: Spate M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8752612 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature