Eritrea Livelihood Zones and Anthropogenic Biomes, 10,000 BCE to 2017 CE

Livelihood zones and anthromes for Eritrea, representing human cultural transformation and land use. The data covers 12,000 years at 60 time points between 10,000 BCE and 2017 CE, mapped at a regional landscape scale using a Discrete Global Grid system of 1,429,024 hexagons. It was published by the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center (ICPAC) and last updated on March 17, 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling historical land-use change based on the anthrome classification (Intensive, Cultured, Wildlands).
• Analyzing long-term human ecological patterns based on the 12,000-year time series.
• Mapping regional landscape transformations based on the Discrete Global Grid hexagon system.
• Studying livelihood zone dynamics in Eritrea based on the geospatial classification.

Strengths

• Covers a 12,000-year time series with 60 distinct time points.
• Uses a consistent global spatial framework of 1,429,024 equal-area hexagons.
• Provides a structured classification of anthromes (Intensive, Cultured, Wildlands).
• Data is licensed under CC-BY-4.0, allowing for broad reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center (ICPAC)

Collection Method

Likely derived from historical and contemporary land-use data modeled onto a Discrete Global Grid.

Time Range

10,000 BCE to 2017 CE

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03 17 09:12:32.274746; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Eritrea