Person: Santisteban Navarro, Juan Ignacio
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First Name
Juan Ignacio
Last Name
Santisteban Navarro
Affiliation
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Faculty / Institute
Ciencias Geológicas
Department
Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología
Area
Estratigrafía
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Item Millennial-scale cycles of aridity as a driver of human occupancy in central Spain?(Quaternary International, 2016) Santisteban Navarro, Juan Ignacio; Mediavilla, Rosa; Celis, Alberto; Castaño, Silvino; Losa, Almudena de laHuman settlements around the fluvial wetland of Las Tablas de Daimiel (central Spain) have been related to the water availability in this area for nearly 5500 years; however the relationship of the hydrology of the wetland to climate change remains uncertain. Whilst archaeological and pollen data provide contradictory arguments, statistical empirical mode decomposition of geochemical data from core S-1 reveals arid periods ca. 1.8 cal. ka BP, ca. 3.3 cal. ka BP and ca. 5.5 cal. ka BP between which periods both Bronze Age and Iberian-Roman settlements developed. These periods can be identified in other records of the Iberian Peninsula and around the western Mediterranean. Comparison of these records points to a complex spatial pattern that evolved in time and, despite a number of forcings (volcanism, solar activity, atmosphere-ocean interactions) being invoked to explain such periods, there is no clear mechanism to explain their spatial pattern and the changes that have taken place since 2.5 ka BP.Item The transition from climate-driven to human-driven agriculture during the Little Ice Age in Central Spain: Documentary and fluvial records evidence(Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2021) Santisteban Navarro, Juan Ignacio; Celis, Alberto; Mediavilla López, Rosa María; Gil García, M. José; Ruiz Zapata, María Blanca; Castaño Castaño, SilvinoKnowledge about the relative impact of climate and socio-economic factors on agriculture is still not well known as they change in space and time. Social researchers stress the role of endogenous (societal, economical, etc.) factors whilst physical/natural scientists focus on the role of climate on land use and land cover change, but the latter do not usually focus on human dynamics. Through the analysis of proxies of land cover, sediment yield (erosion) and salinity changes from sediments in a fluvial wetland in central Spain and documentary evidence collected from the 16th century onwards, it becomes clear that climate impact on farming has changed during this period. Thus, until ca. 1725 CE, agriculture production in central-southern Spain followed the cycles and trends of rainfall at the annual, multiannual and decennial time scales. From that time onwards, production began to show discrepancies with climate, with high production cycles associated with dry periods being common and a sustained productivity that was independent of climate trends and it must be related to socio-economic changes. This change from climate-driven to human-driven agriculture can be seen in other areas of the Iberian Peninsula but at different times that vary from the first half of the 17th century until the first half of the 18th century. These different times can be attributed to diachronous changes in the Little Ice Age phases and local and regional differences in economic factors (such as proximity to commercial routes, development of markets) and their evolution, as supported by the different information sources.Item La desecación de las Tablas de Daimiel (1750-1987): cambios agrarios e impactos medioambientales a partir de la interpretación del registro sedimentario(Historia Agraria, 71, 2017) Celis, Alberto; Mediavilla López, Rosa María; Santisteban Navarro, Juan Ignacio; Castaño Castaño, Silvino; Losa, Almudena de laEl Parque Nacional de lasTablas de Daimiel es un humedal de importancia internacional sometido a una fuerte presión agraria desde el siglo XVIII.El impacto de dicha presión ha sido analizado a partir del estudio de los sedimentos acumulados en el interior del humedal. Se han encontrado varias anomalías sedimentarias que separan al humedal de su comportamiento natural.Se han establecido cuatro épocas de alteración importantes:el primer proyecto de desecación en la dé cada de 1750;el aumento de la superficie cultivada en el entorno durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX;el intento de desecación promovido durante la Segunda República; y la degradación definitiva en la segunda mitad del siglo XX.Estas perturbaciones han sido corroboradas por fuentes historiográficas,concluyendo que los sucesivos proyectos de desecación desde el siglo XVIII, los cambios en la agricultura española contemporánea, la deforestación del entorno y la expansión del regadío han transformado el humedal.