期刊名称：Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica : Natural Sciences in Archaeology
印刷版ISSN：1804-848X
出版年度：2014
卷号：V
期号：2
页码：95-96
出版社：Archaeological Centre Olomouc
摘要：This issue contains a series of papers devoted to geoarchaeology and zooarchaeology. In accordance with a decision made two years ago, the geographical scope of articles in Interdiscipliaria Archaeologica (IANSA) is not limited. This fact is demonstrated by the first paper describing interrelations between El Ni.o climatic phenomenon and human occupation as recorded in the coastal landscape of Peru. The paper by Piotr Kalicki demonstrates the importance of climate in relation to human occupation. The majority of the papers in the current issue discuss the problems of the Neolithic and Eneolithic. These periods of human prehistory seem to be quite popular in current archaeology. A number of scholars perceive this era as crucial for understanding the biological roots of European population. The understanding of the Neolithic has improved a great deal recently, particularly its relationship to the previous Late Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic periods. The Neolithic period is once again the focus of scholars. The primary question of environmental archaeology is how Neolithic people influenced the landscape, where they lived. The Neolithic mode of life actually substantially changed the subsistence strategies of humans and also introduced new animal and plant species. From this point of view we might expect a major human impact on the environment. A study concerning Neolithic and Postneolithic landscape development in the Ondava region analyses the geoarchaeological record in archaeologically less recognised Eastern Slovakia. This paper by Marek Nowak and Tomasz Kalicki demonstrates that the human influence on the landscape in the Neolithic period was not really as intense as one might expect. This "low impact" effect has been defined some time ago by palynologists. Regarding these studies, the human impact on the environment was surprisingly low in the Central European Neolithic. During the following period, however, archaeologically defined as the Eneolithic (Late Neolithic), clear anthropogenic interventions can be determined.
