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Spatial patterns of human land-use from surface collections in NW Mongolia (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Loukas Barton. Baiyarsaikhan Jamsranjav. Tuvshinjargal Turmubaatar. Christopher Morgan.

The spatial distributions of artifacts from different periods of time reveal change in the nature and intensity of human activities in different kinds of places. This is particularly useful when trying to establish how patterns of human mobility and land-use evolved during periods of dramatic environmental or economic change. The Uvs Nuur Basin of northwest Mongolia played host to both. Here, the distribution of glaciers, vegetation zones, and lake systems changed rapidly from the late...