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LandClim

LandClim is one of the repository's main pollenomics families. It helps answer the question, "what kind of environmental setting surrounds the places we are mapping or discussing?"

That makes it central to the public surface. Without LandClim, the repository would still have maps and sample points, but it would lose a large part of the vegetation and landscape context that keeps the work genuinely pollenomics-led.

What LandClim Adds

LandClim is strongest when a reader needs broad pollen-derived context rather than a narrow claim about one sample or one archaeological feature.

It is especially useful for:

  • environmental background around a region, country, or map view
  • broad vegetation interpretation
  • REVEALS-style context that helps readers see landscapes rather than isolated evidence points

In public products, LandClim often improves legibility by showing that the repository is not only about where biological samples were found. It also cares about what kind of environment those samples belong to.

Temporal Posture In This Repository

The checked-in LandClim layer is spatially and temporally stronger than a pure map overlay, but it is still context rather than direct sample evidence.

In the current repository state:

  • the normalized site-sequence layer carries numeric BP windows for most checked-in sequence points
  • those windows help keep lake comparison grounded in explicit pollen context rather than timeless map decoration
  • the family still acts as supporting pollenomics context, not as direct human or archaeological proof

The shared machine-readable posture for this family lives in:

  • data/source_spatiotemporal_posture_registry.json

What LandClim Does Not Do

LandClim should not be mistaken for direct proof of a specific archaeological or aDNA claim.

It does not replace:

  • sample-level locality evidence
  • sample-level chronology evidence
  • species identification or archive review
  • archaeological interpretation from SEAD or RAÄ

Its value is contextual. It tells readers more about environmental setting than about one individual record's direct evidentiary chain.

How It Differs From Neotoma

LandClim and Neotoma are both pollenomics families, but they are not copies of each other.

LandClim is the stronger first stop when you want broad landscape framing or REVEALS-style context. Neotoma is often the better first stop when you want a more site-centered pollen comparison across geography.

The important public rule is not to collapse them into one generic "pollen" layer. They overlap, but they do not speak in exactly the same way.

How It Appears In Public Outputs

LandClim usually appears as context that helps readers interpret why a place or region matters environmentally. It can support atlas views, country views, and broader comparisons, especially where the repository needs vegetation context to stay visible beside archaeology and ancient DNA.

If You Need The Repository-Owned Records

The family-owned normalized outputs live under:

  • data/landclim/normalized/
  • data/source_spatiotemporal_posture_registry.json

That path matters if you are checking what the public products were built from. Most readers should understand LandClim's role first, then inspect the tracked records only if they need deeper provenance.