Cut and covered: Subfossil trees in buried soils reflect medieval forest composition and exploitation of the central European uplands
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985912%3A_____%2F20%3A00532690" target="_blank" >RIV/67985912:_____/20:00532690 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14210/20:00115067
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/gea.21756" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/gea.21756</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gea.21756" target="_blank" >10.1002/gea.21756</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Cut and covered: Subfossil trees in buried soils reflect medieval forest composition and exploitation of the central European uplands
Original language description
Knowledge of historic changes in vegetation, relief, and soil is key in understanding how the uplands in central Europe have changed during the last millennium, being an essential requirement for measures on forest conversion and nature conservation in that area. Evidence of forest‐clearing horizons from the medieval period could be systematically documented at four low‐ to mid-altitudinal sites (360–640 meters above mean sea level) in the Harz (Harz Mountains), Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains), and Českomoravská vrchovina (Bohemian‐Moravian Highlands). Subfossil trees with traces of human cutmarks and burning were recovered from buried wet‐organic soils (paleosols) within a context of mining and settlement archaeology, applying a multiproxy‐approach by using data from archaeology, paleobotany, geochronology, dendrochronology, and pedology. Tree stumps and trunks, as well as small‐scale wood remains represent an in situ record of local conifer stands (spruce, fir, and pine). Some deciduous tree taxa also occur. Dating of the tree remains yielded ages from the 10th/11th to the 13th/14th centuries A.D. After deforestation, the tree remains were buried by technogenic and alluvial–colluvial deposits. The reconstructed conifer-dominated woodlands on wet soils mirror the local vegetation structure immediately before the medieval deforestation. As such wet sites are common in the uplands, conifers were significantly present in the natural vegetation even at mid and lower altitudes.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Geoarchaeology: an international journal
ISSN
0883-6353
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
35
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
42-62
UT code for WoS article
000619352500003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85076462940