Östlund, Lars and Zegers, Gabriel and Cáceres Murrie, Benjamin and Fernández, Macarena and Carracedo-Recasens, Robert and Josefsson, Torbjörn and Prieto, Alfredo and Roturier, Samuel
(2020).
Culturally modified trees and forest structure at a Kawesqar ancient settlement at Rio Batchelor, western Patagonia.
Human Ecology. 48
, 585-597
[Research article]
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Abstract
Indigenous land use occurring on temporal scales over centuries or millennia shapes forests in specific ways and influences the dynamics of forest ecosystems. It is challenging to study such land use, but analysis of "culturally modified trees" (CMTs) can give precise spatial and temporal information on past land use by indigenous people. The aim of this study was to increase our knowledge of indigenous use of land and resources in Nothofagus forests by identifying CMTs and analyzing the forest structure dynamics in an ancient Kawesqar settlement site in western Patagonia. Our results show that there are CMTs at Rio Batchelor and that the forest structure varies significantly within the site, indicating that Kawesqar people altered the forest by extracting various resources. We conclude that CMT studies have great potential in Nothofagus forests in southernmost America, but also face specific challenges due to environmental conditions and lack of corroborating historical information.
| Authors/Creators: | Östlund, Lars and Zegers, Gabriel and Cáceres Murrie, Benjamin and Fernández, Macarena and Carracedo-Recasens, Robert and Josefsson, Torbjörn and Prieto, Alfredo and Roturier, Samuel | ||||||
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| Title: | Culturally modified trees and forest structure at a Kawesqar ancient settlement at Rio Batchelor, western Patagonia | ||||||
| Series Name/Journal: | Human Ecology | ||||||
| Year of publishing : | 2020 | ||||||
| Volume: | 48 | ||||||
| Page range: | 585-597 | ||||||
| Number of Pages: | 13 | ||||||
| Publisher: | SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0300-7839 | ||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||
| Publication Type: | Research article | ||||||
| Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||||
| Version: | Published version | ||||||
| Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||||
| Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||
| Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 6 Humanities > 601 History and Archaeology > Archaeology | ||||||
| Keywords: | Culturally modified trees, Bark peeling, Forest history, Indigenous land use, Archaeology Patagonia, Nothofagus | ||||||
| URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-109343 | ||||||
| Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-109343 | ||||||
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| ID Code: | 19767 | ||||||
| Faculty: | S - Faculty of Forest Sciences | ||||||
| Department: | (S) > Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management | ||||||
| Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||||
| Deposited On: | 23 Dec 2020 09:03 | ||||||
| Metadata Last Modified: | 15 Jan 2021 19:48 |
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