RESEARCH ARTICLE Early impact of agropastoral activities and climate on the littoral landscape of Corsica since mid-Holocene 1,2,3¤ 4 5 5 Marc-Antoine VellaID *, ValeÂrie Andrieu-Ponel , Joseph Cesari , Franck Leandri , 6 4 4 1 Kewin Pêche-Quilichini , Maurice Reille , Yoann PoherID , FrancËois Demory , Doriane Delanghe1, Matthieu Ghilardi1, Marie-Madeleine Ottaviani-Spella2 1 UMR 7330 CEREGE, Aix Marseille University, Collège de France, IRD, INRA, CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2 UMR 6134 SPE, Corsica University, CNRS, Corte, France, 3 UMR 7619 METIS Sorbonne University, CNRS, EPHE, Paris, France, 4 Aix-Marseille University, Avignon University, IMBE, IRD, CNRS, a1111111111 Aix-en-Provence, France, 5 DRAC Corse, MMSH, LAMPEA, UMR 7269 CNRS, Ajaccio, France, 6 UMR a1111111111 5140 ASM, Montpellier University, INRAP MeÂditerraneÂe, CNRS, Montpellier, France a1111111111 a1111111111 ¤ Current address: UMR 7619 METIS Sorbonne University, CNRS, EPHE, Paris, France a1111111111 *
[email protected] Abstract OPEN ACCESS A multidisciplinary study (geomorphology, sedimentology and palynology) shows that the Citation: Vella M-A, Andrieu-Ponel V, Cesari J, landscapes of the southwest coast of Corsica have been deeply modified by humans and Leandri F, Pêche-Quilichini K, Reille M, et al. (2019) the climate since 3000 BC. Significant and rapid landscape transformations are recorded Early impact of agropastoral activities and climate between the Chalcolithic and the Middle Bronze Ages (3000±1300 BC). Several major (2.2 on the littoral landscape of Corsica since mid- Holocene. PLoS ONE 14(12): e0226358. https:// ka BC, 1.2 ka BC) and local (3000 BC) detrital events affected the Taravo Lower Valley in doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226358 relation to global climatic changes and anthropic activities.