Descripción del proyecto
La percepción del cambio climático en los humanos de la antigüedad
El Holoceno es un período clave para el valle superior del Jordán, ya que se produjeron transformaciones importantes en los ecosistemas provocadas por los cambios medioambientales y los humanos. La región, y, en particular, el lago de Jule, es rico en materiales paleoecológicos y geoquímicos, y proporciona información única sobre los efectos del cambio climático y la actividad humana sobre el medio ambiente. El proyecto GEOLAKE, financiado con fondos europeos, tiene por objeto comprender el rol del cambio climático y la actividad antropogénica en los ecosistemas locales, y estudiará el proceso de adaptación humana a largo plazo en la región. Comparará los datos paleoambientales generados en el contexto del proyecto con pruebas arqueológicas e históricas para saber cómo percibían las sociedades antiguas los cambios climáticos, cómo modificaban su entorno de forma permanente y los métodos de gestión medioambiental que utilizaban.
Objetivo
The overriding aim of GEOLAKE is to disentangle the effects of climate change and anthropogenic activities on the environment and to highlight the long-term adaptation of populations in the Upper Jordan Valley (Israel) using sedimentary, palaeoecological and geochemical proxies from the lake Hula as unique case-study example. The lacustrine archives of the Hula will facilitate a high-resolution reconstruction of human-environment dynamics since the emergence of the region’s first complex societies in the Early Neolithic. In this part of the Levant, the Holocene is a key period during which environmental changes and human pressures profoundly transformed local ecosystems providing new key knowledge to constrain the concept of the Anthropocene in the region. The comparison of palaeoenvironmental data generated within the framework of our project with archaeological and historical evidence will allow us to develop an innovative “local human occupation index” to understand the evolution of the human pressures in the Hula catchment and to propose models looking to: (1) understand how ancient societies perceived and reacted in the face of environmental and climatic changes; (2) understand how they lastingly modified their environment; (3) estimate how their methods of environmental management were influenced by external variations. The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) is the ideal institutional environment to develop the proposed research during the course of the fellowship and beyond. The researcher will be trained and integrated into in a strong collaborative and multidisciplinary network. This fellowship will reinforce the research experience, transferrable skills, audience and outreach, and will thus be crucial for his future career. Furthermore, the project will rest upon strong collaborations with Israeli scientists who are excavating in the region since several decades.
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