Journal article
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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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- 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
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1095-9203
- ISSN:
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0036-8075
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:1048855
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- pubs:1048855
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1048855
- Deposit date:
- 2019-09-03
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- Stephens et al
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2019 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works http://www.sciencemag.org/about/science-licenses-journal-article-reuse This is an article distributed under the terms of the Science Journals Default License. This is an author version of the article. The final version is available online from the publisher’s website.
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