Late Holocene anthropogenic and climatic influences on the regional vegetation of Mexico's Cuenca Oriental
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- 作者：Tripti Bhattacharya ; tripti@berkeley.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Roger Byrne
- 关键词：Highland Mexico ; Paleoenvironments ; Cuenca Oriental ; Palynology ; Human-environment relations ; Mesoamerica
- 刊名：Global and Planetary Change
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：March 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：138
- 期：Complete
- 页码：56-69
- 全文大小：1793 K
文摘
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The settlement history of many regions of Mesoamerica remains poorly understood.
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We present a new multi-proxy paleoecological reconstruction from lake Aljojuca.
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The lake is in a semi-arid region in highland Mexico known as the Cuenca Oriental.
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The Aljojuca record documents Formative period settlement in the Cuenca Oriental.
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The record reveals dramatic landscape transformation following Spanish Conquest.