Human impact on the hydroenvironment of Lake Parishan, SW Iran, through the late-Holocene

Jones, Matthew D; Djamali, Morteza; Holmes, Jonathan; Weeks, Lloyd; Leng, Melanie J.; Lashkari, Arash; Alamdari, Kourosh; Noorollahi, Dariush; Thomas, Louise; Metcalfe, Sarah E

Abstract

A multiproxy record from Lake Parishan, SW Iran, shows human impact on the lake and its catchment over the last 4000 years. The Parishan record provides evidence of changes in lake hydrology, from ostracod, diatom and isotope analyses, that are directly linked to human activity in the catchment; recorded by pollen and charcoal and supported by regional archaeological and historical data. The lake ostracod fauna is particularly sensitive to human induced catchment alterations and allow us to identify changes in catchment hydrology that are due to more than a simple change in precipitation: evaporation state. Oxygen isotope data from endogenic carbonates follow these faunal changes but also displays a longer trend to more positive values through the period, coincident with regional patterns of water balance for the late Holocene in the eastern Mediterranean.

Citation

Jones, M. D., Djamali, M., Holmes, J., Weeks, L., Leng, M. J., Lashkari, A., Alamdari, K., Noorollahi, D., Thomas, L., & Metcalfe, S. E. (2015). Human impact on the hydroenvironment of Lake Parishan, SW Iran, through the late-Holocene. Holocene, 25(10), 1651-1661. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615594242

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 25, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Jul 9, 2015
• Publication Date: 2015-10
• Deposit Date: Sep 21, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 21, 2015
• Journal: The Holocene
• Print ISSN: 0959-6836
• Electronic ISSN: 1477-0911
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 1651-1661
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615594242
• Keywords: agriculture, Iran, lake, late-Holocene, ostracods, pollen
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/755249
• Publisher URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0959683615594242
• Contract Date: Sep 21, 2015