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PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
卷 198, 期 3-4, 页码 321-334出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00473-5
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pollen; late Holocene; southern Tanzania; Zambezian woodland; climate change; human activity
The age-constrained pollen data of a sedimentary sequence from the crater Lake Masoko, southern Tanzania (9degrees20'S 33degrees45'E 770 m), display a continuous record of vegetation for the past 4200 years. This record provides evidence that wetter Zambezian woodlands always occupied this area during the late Holocene, reaching a maximum extent between 2800 and 1650 cal yr BP related to increase in summer monsoon intensity. However, three main episodes of decline have been detected, between 3450 and 2800 cal yr BP, between 1650 and 1450 cal yr BP and from 1200 to 500 cal yr BP, for which a climatic interpretation, decrease in the summer monsoon strength, was preferentially advanced. The first is synchronous with lowstand of many tropical African lakes and, so, mainly induced by increased aridity. In contrast, the abrupt change in the pollen record at 1650-1550 cal yr BP is marked by a large extension of grasslands at the expense of arboreal cover, further by an increase in Ricinus communis and an intensification of burning. It could thus indicate local clearance of vegetation by man. However, at the same time, the decline of montane forest suggests the impact of a more regional change. During the last episode, between 1200 and 500 cal vr BR dry climatic conditions are inferred from a combination of pollen, diatom and magnetic proxies, although the occurrence of Late Iron Age settlements in the region means that local human interference cannot be excluded. This study illustrates the difficulties in deciphering ecological and anthropological changes from pollen data in African tropical regions. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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