Department of Environment and Society, College of Natural Resources, Utah State University, 5200 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322-5200, USA; The Ecology Center, Utah State University, 5205 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322-5200, USA; Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns, QLD 4870, Australia; Crow Canyon Research Institute, 23390 County Road K, Cortez, CO 81321, USA.
Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA.
Trends Ecol Evol. 2022 Nov;37(11):976-984. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2022.07.010. Epub 2022 Aug 30.
We propose defining a field of research called 'archaeoecology' that examines the past ~60 000 years of interactions between humans and ecosystems to better understand the human place within them. Archaeoecology explicitly integrates questions, data, and approaches from archaeology and ecology, and coalesces recent and future studies that demonstrate the usefulness of integrating archaeological, environmental, and ecological data for understanding the past. Defining a subfield of archaeoecology, much as the related fields of environmental archaeology and palaeoecology have emerged as distinct areas of research, provides a clear intellectual context for helping us to understand the trajectory of human-ecosystem interactions in the past, during the present, and into the future.
我们建议定义一个名为“考古生态学”的研究领域，该领域研究人类与生态系统之间过去约 6 万年的相互作用，以更好地理解人类在其中的位置。考古生态学明确整合了考古学和生态学的问题、数据和方法，并将最近和未来的研究整合在一起，这些研究证明了整合考古、环境和生态数据以了解过去的有用性。定义考古生态学的一个子领域，就像环境考古学和古生态学等相关领域已经成为研究的独特领域一样，为帮助我们理解过去、现在和未来人类与生态系统相互作用的轨迹提供了一个清晰的知识背景。
