Romano-Libyan Dryland Animal Husbandry and Landscape: Pollen and Palynofacies Analyses of Coprolites from a Farm in the Wadi el-Amud,Tripolitania |
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| Institution: | 1. PhysioSign Laboratory, 91040, USA;2. Dept. of Cardiology, Baotou Central Hospital, Baotou, Inner Mongolia 014040, China;3. Dept. of Electrophysiology, Xiangtan Center Hospital, Medical College, Central-South Univ., Hunan 411100, China;4. Dept. of Electrophysiology, Wuhan Asia Heart Hospital, Hubei 430022, China;1. Section of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA;2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA;1. Tyumen Scientific Centre of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tyumen, Russian Federation;2. Surgut State University, Surgut, Russian Federation;3. Lab of Bioanthropology, Paleopathology and History of Diseases, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Institute of Forensic Science, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03080, South Korea |
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| Abstract: | Pollen and palynofacies from sheep/goat, rodent and human coprolites of Romano-Libyan, Arab and recent age from a farmstead in the Wadi el-Amud, Tripolitania, Libya are described. There are few differences between assemblages from modern sheep/goat dung and from recent aeolian sand—both contain high percentages of desert species and significant far-travelled pollen. The Romano-Libyan and Arab samples contain high percentages of steppe taxa, suggesting significant vegetation change has occurred subsequently. Romano-Libyan sheep/goat dung samples are often dominated by single taxa, suggesting that the grazing of these animals was closely controlled or that they were stalled and fed hay, cereal waste or other crop residue. This practice seems to have contributed to the longevity of a mixed-Mediterranean agroecosystem in the predesert by preventing widespread and indiscriminate grazing and consequent landscape destabilization. |
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