Integrating human dimensions of Arctic palaeoenvironmental science: SEAD – the strategic environmental archaeology database Show others and affiliations
2011 (English) In: Journal of Archaeological Science, ISSN 0305-4403, E-ISSN 1095-9238, Vol. 38, no 2, p. 345-351Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Environmental change has a human dimension, and has had so for at least the last 10 000 years. The prehistoric impact of people on the Arctic landscape has occasionally left visible traces, such as house and field structures. More often than not, however, the only evidence available is at the microscopic or geochemical level, such as fossil insect and seed assemblages or changes in the physical and chemical properties of soils and sediments. These records are the subject of SEAD, a multidisciplinary database and software project currently underway at Umeå University, Sweden, which aims to create an online database and set of tools for investigating these traces, as part of an international research infrastructure for palaeoecology and environmental archaeology.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages Elsevier, 2011. Vol. 38, no 2, p. 345-351
Keywords [en]
Environmental change, Climate change, Environmental archaeology, Multi-proxy database, Research infrastructure, Palaeoecology, Multidisciplinary, E-science, Arctic
National Category
Archaeology Computer Sciences Geology
Research subject Archaeology; Quarternary Geology
Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-36006 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2010.09.011 ISI: 000285859500013 Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-78649636023 OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-36006 DiVA, id: diva2:351385
Projects SEAD 2010-09-142010-09-142024-07-02 Bibliographically approved