Holocene Environments, Human Subsistence and Adaptation in Northern and Eastern Eurasia

TY - JOUR

T1 - Holocene Environments, Human Subsistence and Adaptation in Northern and Eastern Eurasia

AU - Leipe, Christian

AU - Long, Tengwen

AU - Wertmann, Patrick

AU - Wagner, Mayke

N1 - Funding Information: From 11th to 15th February 2020 the Beijing Branch Office of the Eurasia Department, German Archaeological Institute (DAI), and the Institute of Geological Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin jointly hosted an international workshop in Berlin headlined ‘Archaeology in Eurasia – Bridge Building to Natural Sciences’. The impetus for this was the launch of the DAI research program ‘GROUNDCHECK – Cultural Heritage and Climate Change’ which was designed to study past climate and societal dynamics in a global comparative perspective to provide applicable knowledge on long-term processes to understand current climate change and its manifold consequences and to support the safekeeping of cultural heritage (https://www.dainst.blog/groundcheck/about-groundcheck/). The Eurasia Department's project ‘Food in a Changing World: Humans • Climate • Landscape in Northeast Asia’ is part of this program. The workshop was its kick-off event and at the same time another brainstorming meeting of the now decade-long ‘Bridging Eurasia’ research initiative. Brought to life in 2010 this initiative informally unites and promotes a large number of young scholars from different disciplines striving for comparison of archaeological and environmental data on local to trans-regional scale to understand the deep linkages between human behaviour, natural resources, and climates. Already, two special issues of the journal Quaternary International and one volume in the journal The Holocene have originated from it (Spengler et al., 2016b; Wagner et al., 2014; Tarasov et al., 2013).We would like to express our gratitude to Jule Xiao (Editor-in-Chief), Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China for his support in the organisation and preparation of this special issue and Patrick Roberts (Editor), Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, for his great efforts and support as Handling Editor, including his help in improving the English language in several articles. We also extend our thanks to all reviewers for their constructive comments and suggestions that helped improve the scientific quality of the articles. C. Leipe acknowledges financial support by the German Research Foundation grant LE 3508/4–1 and a scholarship (AZ 05/F/21) awarded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. T. Long acknowledges support by the Zhejiang Provincial Qianjiang Talent Scheme (project number: QJC2002001) and the ‘Ningbo History Digital Humanities’ project. We are grateful to the German Archaeological Institute for financial support within the framework of the research initiative ‘Groundcheck – Cultural Heritage and Climate Change’ for the open access publication of ten articles. The guest editors dedicate this special issue to Pavel E. Tarasov (Institute of Geological Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin), most reliable and always fair colleague, demanding mentor, and witty motivator, on the occasion of his forthcoming round birthday. With research ideas far ahead of his time, he urged and trusted us to bring the meeting and this volume to life. Thank you. Funding Information: We would like to express our gratitude to Jule Xiao (Editor-in-Chief), Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing, China for his support in the organisation and preparation of this special issue and Patrick Roberts (Editor), Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History , Jena, Germany, for his great efforts and support as Handling Editor, including his help in improving the English language in several articles. We also extend our thanks to all reviewers for their constructive comments and suggestions that helped improve the scientific quality of the articles. C. Leipe acknowledges financial support by the German Research Foundation grant LE 3508/4–1 and a scholarship (AZ 05/F/21) awarded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation . T. Long acknowledges support by the Zhejiang Provincial Qianjiang Talent Scheme (project number: QJC2002001 ) and the ‘Ningbo History Digital Humanities’ project. We are grateful to the German Archaeological Institute for financial support within the framework of the research initiative ‘Groundcheck – Cultural Heritage and Climate Change’ for the open access publication of ten articles.

PY - 2022/6/20

Y1 - 2022/6/20

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85127900830&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.quaint.2022.04.001

DO - 10.1016/j.quaint.2022.04.001

M3 - Editorial

AN - SCOPUS:85127900830

SN - 1040-6182

VL - 623

SP - 1

EP - 7

JO - Quaternary International

JF - Quaternary International

ER -