Early anthropocene climate change

i have had an idea since i learned about interglacials at school that there was something funny about this one. the strangely flat top, where all the previous ones peak sharply then sawtooth down back into the next glacial period.

reading some anthropological workgave me an idea of the vast scale of deforestation by mesolithic peoples onwards.

'the bog people' for starters, the amount of wood that went into the early lake settlements, and the trackways, was staggering, and that was a fraction of what was burned and cleared in europe post 10000 BC.

recently i found this is a genuine scientific theory, the early anthropocene hypothesis.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_anthropocene

(is it ok to use wiki on here?)

this morning i found this latest article on it;
Did Early Global Warming Divert A New Glacial Age?

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081217190433.htm

i would have thought a bit more than miniscule, but maybe i'm being euro-centric. thinking of eire in particular, there is a folk tale that tells of 'all the men of ireland poured all the wood of the land into the bog' to make a bridal path (which is still there, a huge wooden trackway across the centre of the island) i'll look for the reference. and there are no trees harldy there now, thats for sure, and havnt been for centuries, thats why they burn peat.

but there's australia, there is some evidence that the early aborigenes burned it into a different state over the first few thousand years they were there, from mainly wooded and thick scrub to a mosaic of open grass and scrub with woodland.

and china, the rice paddies, and the rise of herding instead of hunter/gathering all across the asian and russian steppes.

fascinating gc. the idea of waves of disease spreading out from the settlers, devastating the population right across the land, awful.

the built up islands and quays in the amazon very interesting too, there was a section on the florida keys in my old 'bog people' book (not online unfortunately), they built the land up too, and had long quays and harbours made of big shells and wood.

i read this recently that ties in to the plagues idea;

New World Post-pandemic Reforestation Helped Start Little Ice Age, Say Scientists

ScienceDaily (Dec. 19, 2008)

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i found the original article that re-aroused my interest in this subject of early a.c.c.;

The ice age that never was

New Scientist 03 September 2008 by Hazel Muir

i file stuff like that in 'anthropology' which is 80% guesswork anyway. in between carbon dating and folk tales. its a sliding scale of confidence, but doesnt mean there is not some value in the lower end, any more than in the physicists though-experiments. theoretical earth science?