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The ArchaeoGlobe Project assessed archaeological knowledge on human land use across the globe over the past 10,000 years through the expert knowledge contributions of more than 200 archaeologists provided through a questionnaire between May 18 and June 30, 2018.

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ArchaeoGLOBE Project. Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use. Science 365(6456):897-902 DOI: 10.1126/science.aax1192

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Regional land use across 146 regions was assessed at 10 distinct time points (10,000 bp, 8,000 bp, 6,000 bp, 4,000 bp, 3,000 bp, 2,000 bp, 1,000 bp, 1500 CE, 1750 CE, 1850 CE).

Data were obtained for four land use categories: Foraging/hunting/gathering/fishing, Extensive agriculture Intensive agriculture, and Pastoralism.

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Sep 5, 2019
Gauthier, Nicolas, 2019, "ArchaeoGLOBE Animations", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SFGZBS, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Global animations of land use change: 10,000 BP to 1850 CE
Aug 26, 2019
ArchaeoGLOBE Project, 2019, "ArchaeoGLOBE Repository", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6ZXAGT, Harvard Dataverse, V2
Repository containing entire R code used for all the analysis and visualizations contained in the paper "Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use."
Jun 2, 2019
ArchaeoGLOBE Project, 2019, "ArchaeoGLOBE Public Data", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CNCANQ, Harvard Dataverse, V3, UNF:6:OKY0Zru6lhOXZ0bAHiSq4g== [fileUNF]
This dataset contains responses to the ArchaeoGLOBE land use questionnaire collected between May 18 and July 31, summary tables including consensus assessments, and supplementary figures. All personal and identifying information has been removed.
Feb 6, 2019
ArchaeoGLOBE Project, 2018, "ArchaeoGLOBE Regions", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CQWUBI, Harvard Dataverse, V6
This dataset contains documentation on the 146 global regions used to organize responses to the ArchaeGLOBE land use questionnaire between May 18 and July 31, 2018. The regions were formed from modern administrative regions (Natural Earth 1:50m Admin1 - states and provinces, http...
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