A study shows that Cannabis entered the Iberian Peninsula in its wild form during the Upper Paleolithic and underwent two further introduction waves, one in the Neolithic and another in the Middle Ages, likely in cultivated forms The main routes…
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Cannabis entered the Iberian Peninsula well before its domestication
Tagged with: biogeography, Bronze Age, Cannabis, Chalcolithic, cultivated, dispersal, hemp, Holocene, Iberian Peninsula, Iron Age, Mesolithic, Middle Ages, Modern Age, Neolithic, Paleolithic, Pleistocene, pollen, Roman Epoch, wild
Posted in Cannabis, My publications
Posted in Cannabis, My publications
Cannabis origin, evolution and domestication
In a paper that is about to be published in the journal Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, the origin, early dispersal, human domestication and anthropogenic diffusion of Cannabis are reviewed and discussed. According to DNA phylogenies, Cannabis diverged…
Tagged with: Caucasus, diffusion, dispersal, domestication, drug, Europe, hemp, hemp Cannabis, Iberian Peninsula, Middle Ages, Miocene, Oligocene, origin, Pleistocene, retting, Tibetan Plateau
Posted in Cannabis, My publications, Sin categorÃa
Posted in Cannabis, My publications, Sin categorÃa
Medieval forest dynamics in the Pyrenees
A recent study challenges the idea that present-day Pyrenean landscapes are the result of large-scale anthropogenic deforestation and land degradation that occurred during the Middle Ages. High-resolution (decadal) pollen analysis of sediments from two lakes situated in the lowest (Montcortès)…
Tagged with: conifers, fire, Forests, high-resolution, Iberian Peninsula, Landscape anthropization, last millennium, Middle Ages, palynology, pines, Pyrenees
Posted in My publications
Posted in My publications
High-mountain forest resilience
Some high-elevation Pyrenean forests remained virtually pristine during the last 4000 years Palynological analysis of the last ca. 4300 cal yr BP using a sediment core taken from high mountain (ca. 1900 m elevation) Lake Sant Maurici sediments (southern-central Pyrenees)…
Tagged with: Catalonia, Conifer forests, Europe, Forests, High mountains, Holocene, Iberian Peninsula, lakes, Late Holocene, National Parks, palynology, PNAESM, pollen analysis, Pyrenees, Resilience, sediments
Posted in My publications, Research papers
Posted in My publications, Research papers
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