Medieval vegetation dynamics and montane-industrial history of the central Ore Mountains, Czech Republic, as reflected by alluvial geoarchives

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985912%3A_____%2F24%3A00601362" target="_blank" >RIV/67985912:_____/24:00601362 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/47325011:_____/24:N0000008 RIV/00216224:14310/24:00137904

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0341816224007173?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0341816224007173?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2024.108520" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.catena.2024.108520</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Medieval vegetation dynamics and montane-industrial history of the central Ore Mountains, Czech Republic, as reflected by alluvial geoarchives

Original language description

The methodically complex analysis of alluvial sediments from stream valleys makes it possible to reconstruct the medieval and early modern history of vegetation and land use in low mountain ranges. For this purpose, eight alluvial sections were documented and analysed in the central part of the Ore Mountains at an altitude interval of 700–800 m a.s.l. An interdisciplinary approach was applied using methods from archaeology, micro-artefact analysis, geomorphology, radiocarbon dating, pedology, sedimentology, geochemistry, and archaeobotany. Our results show that the alluvial valley fills are about 1–2 m thick and consist of various sediment types including coarse wood remains. According to radiocarbon dating, these fills represent the last millennium. Before local medieval clearing in the second half of the 13th century CE, the wet valley floors were covered by spruce, supplemented by alder and other woody taxa. The adjacent dry slopes and plateaus were predominantly over grown by beech and fir. Silver mining of hydrothermal vein deposits, iron smelting, agriculture, and rural settlements were recognised as specific types of medieval and early modern land use in the study area. These different land-use forms occurred contemporarily, but sometimes spatially separated. Over the course of time strong human impact in the area becomes evident, which has led to deforestation, changes in vegetation and relief, soil erosion, siltation of stream valleys, and local geochemical contamination. A special feature, in comparison with other Central European low mountain ranges, is the existence of a mixed mining-agricultural colonisation in the Ore Mountains, as opposed to a mode in which mining and metallurgy clearly precede permanent rural settlement.

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/EH22_008%2F0004593" target="_blank" >EH22_008/0004593: Ready for the future: understanding long-term resilience of the human culture (RES-HUM)</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Catena

ISSN

0341-8162

e-ISSN

1872-6887

Volume of the periodical

247

Issue of the periodical within the volume

December

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

108520

UT code for WoS article

001360741300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85208765889