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Colluvial sediments originating from past land-use activities in the Erzgebirge Mountains, Central Europe: occurrence, properties, and historic environmental implications

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985912%3A_____%2F21%3A00553921" target="_blank" >RIV/67985912:_____/21:00553921 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/00216224:14310/21:00123242

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12520-021-01469-z.pdf" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12520-021-01469-z.pdf</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-021-01469-z" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12520-021-01469-z</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Colluvial sediments originating from past land-use activities in the Erzgebirge Mountains, Central Europe: occurrence, properties, and historic environmental implications

  • Original language description

    Colluvial sediments originating from soil erosion on slopes have proven to constitute significant evidence for tracing past human impact on mountain landscapes. In the Central European Erzgebirge (Ore) Mountains, colluvial sediments are associated with specific landforms (footslopes, slope flattenings, dells) and cover a share of 11% (11,905 ha) of the regional soil landscape. Thirteen pedosedimentary sections with colluvial layers were investigated at five forested sites (520–730 m a.s.l.) within a context of mining archaeology, integrating data from pedology, archaeology, palaeobotany, and geochronology. The thickness of the gravel-bearing loamy, silty, and sandy colluvial layers is up to 70 cm, which are mostly located on top of the sections. The geochronological ages and archaeological data reveal a high to late medieval to post-medieval age of the colluvial sediments. Pollen data show a drastic decline of the mountain forests in the late twelfth to fifteenth centuries AD accompanied by an increase of pioneer trees and spruce at the expense of fir and beech. The primary cause of soil erosion and subsequent colluvial deposition at the sites investigated is medieval to post-medieval mining and other early industrial activities. A compilation of 395 radiocarbon and OSL ages, obtained from colluvial sediments at 197 upland sites in Central Europe, shows that anthropogenically initiated colluvial dynamics go as far back as the late Bronze Age to the early Iron Age. Most ages derive from the medieval to post-medieval period, corresponding to the general intensification of settlement and land-use activities including deforestation and widespread ore mining.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    60102 - Archaeology

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2021

  • Confidentiality

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

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

  • ISSN

    1866-9557

  • e-ISSN

    1866-9565

  • Volume of the periodical

    13

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    12

  • Country of publishing house

    DE - GERMANY

  • Number of pages

    26

  • Pages from-to

    220

  • UT code for WoS article

    000721883000001

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85119883189