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The Holocene | 2016

High spatial resolution of late-Holocene human activities in the moist forests of Central Africa using soil charcoal and charred botanical remains

Julie Morin-Rivat; Achille Biwole; Anaïs Gorel; Jason Vleminckx; Jean-François Gillet; Nils Bourland; Olivier J. Hardy; Alexandre Livingstone Smith; Kasso Daïnou; Laurent Dedry; Hans Beeckman; Jean-Louis Doucet

Palaeoecological and archaeological studies have demonstrated that human populations have long inhabited the moist forests of central Africa. However, spatial and temporal patterns of human activities have hardly been investigated with satisfactory accuracy. In this study, we propose to characterize past human activities at local scale by using a systematic quantitative and qualitative methodology based on soil charcoal and charred botanical remains. A total of 88 equidistant test-pits were excavated along six transects in two contrasting forest types in southern Cameroon. Charred botanical remains were collected by water-sieving and sorted by type (wood charcoals, oil palm endocarps and unidentified seeds). A total of 50 Accelerator Mass Spectrometry 14C dates were also obtained. Results showed that charred macroremains were found at multiple places in the forest, suggesting scattered human activities, which were distributed into two main periods (Phase A: 2300–1300 BP; Phase B: 580 BP to the present). Charred botanical remains indicated two types of land-use: (1) domestic, with oil palm endocarps most often associated with potsherds (villages) and (2) agricultural, with charcoal as probable remnant of slash-and-burn cultivation (fields). Oil palm endocarp abundance decreased with distance from the identified human settlements. Our methodology allowed documenting, at high resolution, the spatial and temporal patterns of human activities in central African moist forests and could be applied to other tropical contexts.


Journal of Ecology | 2017

The influence of spatially structured soil properties on tree community assemblages at a landscape scale in the tropical forests of southern Cameroon

Jason Vleminckx; Jean-Louis Doucet; Julie Morin-Rivat; Achille Biwole; David Bauman; Olivier J. Hardy; Adeline Fayolle; Jean-François Gillet; Kasso Daïnou; Anaïs Gorel; Thomas Drouet


Archive | 2017

Hydraulic and wood traits of two congeneric tropical tree species in their core habitat

Anaïs Gorel; Kathy Steppe; Hans Beeckman; Jean-Louis Doucet; Adeline Fayolle


Archive | 2016

Using herbarium records to explore the ecological differentiation between closely‐related tree species in tropical Africa

Anaïs Gorel; Duminil; Jean-Louis Doucet; Adeline Fayolle


Archive | 2015

Niche modeling within and between species in the genus Erythrophleum : integrating phylogenetic data and environmental niche models to explore speciation mechanisms

Anaïs Gorel


Archive | 2015

Late-Holocene tropical moist-forests of southeastern Cameroon: some insight from soil charcoal analysis

Julie Morin; Achille Biwole; Nils Bourland; Kasso Daïnou; Adeline Fayolle; Jean-François Gillet; Anaïs Gorel; Olivier J. Hardy; Jason Vleminckx; Jean-Louis Doucet; Hans Beeckman


Archive | 2015

Identification of charred botanical remains provides more accurate information on past history in Central Africa

Julie Morin; Achille Biwole; Nils Bourland; Laurent Bremond; Adeline Fayolle; Jean-François Gillet; Anaïs Gorel; Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury; Olivier J. Hardy; Alexandre Livingstone Smith; Richard Oslisly; Jason Vleminckx; Jean-Louis Doucet; Hans Beeckman


Archive | 2014

Wood charcoal analysis: a relatively new tool for palaeoecology in tropical Africa

Julie Morin-Rivat; Achille Biwole; Nils Bourland; Kasso Daïnou; Joëlle De Weerdt; Adeline Fayolle; Jean-François Gillet; Anaïs Gorel; Wannes Hubau; John Tshibamba; Jean-Louis Doucet; Hans Beeckman


Archive | 2014

Records of human activity during the late-Holocene in the soils of the African dense humid forest

Julie Morin-Rivat; Achille Biwole; Nils Bourland; Laurent Bremond; Kasso Daïnou; Adeline Fayolle; Jean-François Gillet; Anaïs Gorel; Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury; Olivier J. Hardy; Alexandre Livingstone Smith; Richard Oslisly; Jason Vleminckx; Hans Beeckmans; Jean-Louis Doucet


Archive | 2014

Knowing the past to anticipate the future: soil charcoal as a proxy to model forest evolution

Julie Morin; Achille Biwole; Nils Bourland; Kasso Daïnou; Adeline Fayolle; Jean-François Gillet; Anaïs Gorel; Olivier J. Hardy; Jason Vleminckx; Jean-Louis Doucet; Hans Beeckman

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Hans Beeckman

Royal Museum for Central Africa

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Jason Vleminckx

Université libre de Bruxelles

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Olivier J. Hardy

Université libre de Bruxelles

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