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Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

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Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, but the extent, trajectory, and implications of these early changes are not well understood. An empirical global assessment of land use from 10,000 years before the present (yr B.P.) to 1850 CE reveals a planet largely transformed by hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists by 3000 years ago, considerably earlier than the dates in the land-use reconstructions commonly used by Earth scientists. S...

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1126/science.aax1192

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American Association for the Advancement of Science Publisher's website
Journal:
Science
Volume:
365
Issue:
6456
Pages:
897-902
Publication date:
2019-08-30
Acceptance date:
2019-07-29
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EISSN:
1095-9203
ISSN:
0036-8075
Language:
English
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pubs:1048855
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uuid:69c2ece2-7296-4b6b-bb97-f66b1437a974
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1048855
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2019-09-03

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