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Sci Adv. 2016 Dec 21;2(12):e1601282. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1601282. eCollection 2016 Dec.
Humans use a variety of deliberate means to modify biologically rich environs in pursuit of resource stability and predictability. Empirical evidence suggests that ancient hunter-gatherer populations engineered ecological niches to enhance the productivity and availability of economically significant resources. An archaeological excavation of a 3800-year-old wetland garden in British Columbia, Canada, provides the first direct evidence of an engineered feature designed to facilitate wild plant food production among mid-to-late Holocene era complex fisher-hunter-gatherers of the Northwest Coast. This finding provides an example of environmental, economic, and sociopolitical coevolutionary relationships that are triggered when humans manipulate niche environs.
人类使用各种刻意手段来改变生物丰富的环境，以追求资源的稳定性和可预测性。实证证据表明，古代狩猎采集人群设计了生态小生境，以提高经济上重要资源的生产力和可用性。在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省的一个 3800 年前的湿地花园的考古发掘中，提供了第一个直接证据，证明了一个经过设计的特征，旨在促进中到晚全新世时期西北海岸复杂渔猎采集者的野生植物食品生产。这一发现提供了一个环境、经济和社会政治共同进化关系的例子，当人类操纵小生境环境时，这些关系就会被触发。
