Why did they move to a barren land? Iron Age settlement and the consequences for primary woodlands in the uplands of southern Bohemia, Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00334-019-00757-y" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00334-019-00757-y</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00334-019-00757-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00334-019-00757-y</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Why did they move to a barren land? Iron Age settlement and the consequences for primary woodlands in the uplands of southern Bohemia, Czech Republic

Original language description

The Czech Republic (CR) has an exceptionally high number of pollen sites, but large areas, such as the area south and southwest of Praha (Prague), still lack pollen records. Although we know the basic scenario of Holocene vegetation development in the CR, questions remain. Recent discussions have concerned the role of Picea abies and Abies alba in the mid and late Holocene, especially in upland regions of the CR. Quantitative vegetation reconstruction methods have shown unexpectedly high proportions of both taxa in most regions within the CR in these periods, with the exception of the lowlands. In this study we publish original data from southern Bohemia. We aim to use it to build a picture of both local vegetation and settlement development in an upland landscape where pollen records with a detailed chronology were previously lacking. The area under study, where the first intensive occupation occurred during the early Iron Age (800/750-500 BC), is characterised by poor acid soils, a subcontinental climate and gold-bearing watercourses. Iron Age settlements could have been connected with extensive gold extraction along those watercourses, and this is supported by pollen data. From the same period, a number of Viereckschanzen (rectangular ditched enclosures) have been found in the region. According to pollen data, the woods were originally dominated by Pinus and later by Abies and Picea. Abieti-Quercetum was the main woodland association, while Picea probably grew mostly on the floodplains. During the Iron Age (800/750-50 BC), a sharp and parallel decrease in both Picea and Alnus is detected. However, the extent of farmed land was limited during this period and it became established only in the early medieval period from around AD 900. A. alba and the remaining P. abies nearly disappeared by around AD 1200.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - 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

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-20096S" target="_blank" >GA18-20096S: Mobility of materials and life cycles of artefacts: archaeometry of metals and glass of the La Tène and Early Roman period</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

ISSN

0939-6314

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

29

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

493-507

UT code for WoS article

000494781400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85074824338