Author, as appears in the article.: Picornell-Gelabert L; Servera-Vives G; Carrión Marco Y; Burjachs F; Currás A; Llergo Y; Dufraisse A; De Luís Arrillaga M; Mus Amézquita M

Department: Història i Història de l'Art

URV's Author/s: BURJACHS CASAS, FRANCESC

Keywords: Postfire regeneration Mallorca (balearic islands) Archaeopalynology Anthracology Anthraco-typology Aleppo pine (pinus halepensis miller) (pinus halepensis miller) vegetation prehistory pollen palynology mallorca (balearic island s ) land-use impact fire archaeopalynology anthracology anthraco-typology

Abstract: © 2020 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA The pioneering nature of Mediterranean pines and their phytosociological role have been largely discussed in relation to different agents (e.g., edaphic, climatic or anthropogenic). In this context, Aleppo pine is one of the most widespread pine species in the Mediterranean basin, as it is especially adapted to climatic constraints, such as drought and high seasonality, and has a high tolerance for salinity and strong coastal winds. It is also well adapted to regeneration after anthropogenic landscape disturbances, highlighting its important after-fire regeneration rates. In this sense, phytosociological studies conducted in Mediterranean landscapes have found that this species' wide distribution is mostly due to its rapid regeneration after human landscape transformation, including fire, and the abandonment of agricultural lands. Aleppo pine is considered to broadly develop after human action in sclerophyllous formation, in which it would be scarce or absent without human intervention. Parallel, paleoenvironmental and archaeobotanical studies have attempted to trace these trends back to prehistoric times to investigate this species' role in Late Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation and evaluate the role of climate and human action in its diachronic dynamics. In this study, we present a compendium of anthracological, dendro-anthracological and archaeopalyonological data with the objective of (i) investigating the nature and distribution of Aleppo pine on the island of Mallorca and (ii) evaluating the possibility that human action could have resulted in the spread of this pine species during the first two millennia of permanent human occupation of the island (c. 2300 cal. BCE–1st-century ACE). Investigating these archaeobotanical datasets, as well as making comparisons with anthracological and paleoenvironmental studies in neighbouring Mediterranean zones (Iberia), allowed us to attest that Aleppo pine is a natural, pre-human component of the Holocene vegetation of the island, and it is especially well-adapted to coastal environments. Moreover, we describe the trends and characteristics of the human management of pine woodlands through anthracology and dendro-anthracology, suggesting that human action did not provoke widespread growth of Aleppo pine in Mallorca at the expense of other vegetation types during prehistory. Such processes, well-documented by current phytosociological studies, probably began at some unknown point after the Romanisation of the island.

Thematic Areas: Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros Saúde coletiva Odontología Medicina ii Interdisciplinar Historia y filosofía de la ciencia Historia Geosciences, multidisciplinary Geosciences, interdisciplinary Geography, physical Geografía Geociências Ensino Engenharias iv Engenharias iii Engenharias ii Earth-surface processes Ciencias humanas Ciências biológicas iii Ciências biológicas i Ciências ambientais Ciências agrárias i Ciência da computação Biodiversidade Astronomia / física Archaeology Antropologia / arqueologia

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

Author's mail: francesc.burjachs@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0002-7200-9552

Record's date: 2022-07-10

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040618220307515

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Quaternary International. 593 346-363

APA: Picornell-Gelabert L; Servera-Vives G; Carrión Marco Y; Burjachs F; Currás A; Llergo Y; Dufraisse A; De Luís Arrillaga M; Mus Amézquita M (2021). Late Holocene Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Miller) woodlands in Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean): Investigation of their distribution and the role of human management based on anthracological, dendro-anthracological and archaeopalynological data. Quaternary International, 593(), 346-363. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2020.11.006

Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2020.11.006

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2021

Publication Type: Journal Publications