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    Landscape restoration in a mixed agricultural-forest catchment: Planning a buffer strip and hedgerow network in a Chilean biodiversity hotspot
    (Springer Nature, 2019-02-15) Rey Benayas, José María ; Altamirano, Adison ; Miranda, Alejandro ; Catalán, Germán ; Prado, Marco ; Fulgencio Lisón; Bullock, James M. ; Lisón Gil, Fulgencio; Ecología e Hidrología
    Guidance for large-scale restoration of natural or semi-natural linear vegetation elements that takes into account the need to maintain human livelihoods such as farming is often lacking. Focusing on a Chilean biodiversity hotspot, we assessed the landscape in terms of existing woody vegetation elements and proposed a buffer strip and hedgerow network. We used spatial analysis based on Google Earth imagery and QGIS, field surveys, seven guidelines linked to prioritization criteria and seedling availability in the region’s nurseries, and estimated the budget for implementing the proposed network. The target landscapes require restoring 0.89 ha km−2 of woody buffer strips to meet Chilean law; 1.4 ha km−2 of new hedgerows is also proposed. The cost of restoration in this landscape is estimated in ca. USD 6900 per planted ha of buffer strips and hedgerows. Financial incentives, education, and professional training of farmers are identified as key issues to implement the suggested restoration actions.
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    Pottery traditions, consumers’ choices and exchange networks at Late Bronze Age Cobatillas la Vieja (southeast Iberia)
    (Elsevier, 2022-08-04) Cutillas Victoria, Benjamín; Day, Peter M.; Prehistoria, Arqueología, Historia Antigua, Historia Medieval y Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas
    Cobatillas la Vieja is one of the main settlements for understanding the beginning of the Late Bronze Age (14th 13th centuries cal. BC) in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula. After the macroscopic study of their ceramic assemblage, 30 representative samples were analysed by thin-section petrography, X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and binocular microscopy to address issues of provenance and technology. The characterization of four different fabric groups and several individuals reveals a more complex picture of production traditions, pottery exchange and consumption than often assumed for this period of supposed recession and socio-cultural transition. Potters’ choices in different production locations are discussed, with an examination on the nature of consumption in two households that suggest both regional and inter-regional exchange of ceramics in the Late Bronze Age.