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Land use in southern and central Europe
A publication jointly authored by several OCCR researchers and published in the journal The Holocene suggests comparable dynamics of land use in southern and central Europe during the Neolithic. The study is based on a new, continuous, high-resolution palaeoecological record from central Italy. The sedimentary record from Lago di Mezzano was used to reconstruct vegetation, biodiversity and fire dynamics on a decadal scale in order to better understand the relationships between climate, land use, fire and plant communities from the Neolithic to the Copper Age (ca. 5100-3100 cal. BC).