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Björn E Berglund

Björn Berglund

Professor emeritus

Björn E Berglund

Human impact and climate changes - synchronous events and a causal link?

Author

  • Björn Berglund

Summary, in English

Interaction between cultural development and the natural environment is generally accepted. Holocene climate change is described as one of the main environmental factors behind a step-wise development of the cultural landscape in Northwest Europe. Seven periods of human impact changes-5900, 5500, 4500, 3800, 3000-2800, 1500 and 1100 cal. BP-are defined and compared with reconstructed climatic scenarios, based on insolation, glacier activity, lake and sea levels, bog growth, tree line, and tree growth. There is a positive correlation between human impact/land-use and climate change, although precise correlations are difficult because of weaknesses in the chronology. Future studies of annually laminated (varved) lake sediments and wiggle-matched radiocarbon sequences are emphasized, as well as a combination of palaeoecology and archaeology. It is hypothesized that agrarian society and the landscape developed step-wise, dependent on the interaction between the technological/social complex and the ecological capacity of a region, highly influenced by climate. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.

Department/s

  • Quaternary Sciences

Publishing year

2003

Language

English

Pages

7-12

Publication/Series

Quaternary International

Volume

105

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Pergamon Press Ltd.

Topic

  • Geology

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1873-4553