{"id":1120,"date":"2021-07-05T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/transpergmikro\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2021-07-05T13:39:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T11:39:57","slug":"landscape-development-and-human-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/transpergmikro\/landscape-development-and-human-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Relating long-term landscape development and human activities: Geomorphological Characteristics of the Pergamon Micro-Region"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Previous geoarchaeological case studies in the Pergamon Micro-Region have indicated not only the environmental potential for human activities, <\/strong>but also changing Holocene morphodynamics in the western lower Bak\u0131r\u00e7ay plain and the adjacent piedmonts due to both natural processes and human activities Large spatial-scale geological studies in western Anatolia suggest a complex tectonic-dominated landscape of uplands (horsts) and plains (grabens) in the Bak\u0131r\u00e7ay and Madra River Catchments. In order to further reconstruct the geomorphodynamics and get insight to the suitability for various human activities and human influence of the landscape, an identification of geomorphological characteristics of the catchments of the Bak\u0131r\u00e7ay and Madra rivers is essential.<\/p>\n

We used multiple materials and methods, including geomorphometric analyses of a digital elevation model and visual interpretations of satellite images, to describe the landform features of four different geomorphological units in the Pergamon Micro-Region.<\/p>\n

In our recent study, we show that asymmetries in relief, drainage network, and sediment accumulation exists between the Kozak Mountains north and the Yunt Da\u011f\u0131 Mountains south of the lower Bak\u0131r\u00e7ay plain (Figure 1). The remarkable asymmetries are dominantly shaped by tectonics that formed a horst-and-graben structure and fault-related geomorphological features.\u00a0 Ancient settlements in the micro-region, mostly found on the piedmonts, are likely considered the landscape factors of flood protection, through traffic, and easy access to different natural resources, such as stone, mineral, water, and wood. As a consequence of intensive settlement activities, landscape engineering measures during the last centuries were implemented simultaneously with a parallel change in morphodynamics.<\/p>\n

Our study comprehends the geomorphological characteristics and their potential developing processes of the Pergamon Micro-Region and further provide a basis for the analysis of human activities in different environmental settings.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Figure 1: Geomorphological map of the Bak\u0131r\u00e7ay and Madra River catchments (Yang et al. 2021)<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Original publication:<\/p>

X. Yang, F. Becker, D. Knitter, B. Sch\u00fctt – An Overview of the Geomorphological Characteristics of the Pergamon Micro-Region (Bak\u0131r\u00e7ay and Madra River Catchments, Aegean Region, West Turkey). Land 2021, 10(7), 667<\/strong><\/p>

The paper is available here: Full Text | PDF Download<\/a><\/p>

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New open access paper published by Xun Yang et al. about the relations between long-term landscape development and human activities in the Pergamon Micro-Region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":1131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archaologie-eng","category-geographie-eng","category-projekt-eng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/transpergmikro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/transpergmikro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/transpergmikro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/transpergmikro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/transpergmikro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/transpergmikro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/transpergmikro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/transpergmikro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/transpergmikro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/transpergmikro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/transpergmikro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}