'Pristine' landscapes simply do not exist anywhere in the world today and,in most cases, gain not existed for at least several thousand years, and says a new study in the journal,Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). An exhaustive review of archaeological data from the final 30 years provides details of how the world's landscapes gain been shaped by repeated human activity over many thousands of years. It reveals a sample of significant, long-term, or human influence on the distribution of species across all of the soil's major occupied continents and islands.
Source: phys.org