我们建议定义一个名为“考古生态学”的研究领域,研究人类与生态系统之间过去〜6万年的相互作用,以更好地了解人类在其中的位置。考古生态学明确地整合了问题,数据,以及考古学和生态学的方法,并结合了最近和未来的研究,证明了整合考古学的有用性,环境,和了解过去的生态数据。定义了考古生态学的一个子领域,正如环境考古学和古生态学的相关领域已经成为不同的研究领域,提供了一个清晰的知识背景,帮助我们理解过去人类与生态系统相互作用的轨迹,在当下,并进入未来。
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.