Ptakova, Michaela and Pokorny, Petr and Sida, Petr and Novak, Jan and Horatek, Ivan and Jurickova, Lucie and Meduna, Petr and Bezdek, Ales and Myskova, Eva and Walls, Matthew and Poschlod, Peter (2021) From Mesolithic hunters to Iron Age herders: a unique record of woodland use from eastern central Europe (Czech Republic). VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY, 30. pp. 269-286. ISSN 0939-6314, 1617-6278
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In a continuous, perfectly stratified sedimentary sequence which was discovered under a large sandstone overhang in northern Bohemia, Czech Republic, we analysed multiple biological remains, archaeological features and artefacts. This multi-proxy record has allowed us to examine the interactions between woodland and humans in a permanently wooded environment throughout almost the entire Holocene. We paid most attention to massive finds of dung pellets from sheep, goats or pigs and bedding layers which show that the site was used as a pen and shelter for livestock which grazed in the woods. Our results imply that such practices have occurred since the Neolithic, but the most robust evidence of these is for the Iron Age and early Middle Ages. Detailed analyses of the dung indicate woodland grazing and foddering with branches, acorns, beechnuts and crop processing remains. In addition, the wide palaeoenvironmental range of this detailed investigation provides evidence of the impact of wood pasturing on ecological functions, taxon composition and diversity of the local woodland ecosystem in the Holocene.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | LAKE-SHORE SETTLEMENT; EL MIRADOR CAVE; NORTHERN BOHEMIA; PLANT MACROFOSSILS; GOAT/SHEEP FECES; NUTRITIVE-VALUE; DOKSY REGION; DUNG; LIVESTOCK; CATTLE; Environmental archaeology; Holocene; Stratified site; Rock shelter; Dung; Wood pasture |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 570 Life sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften > Lehrstuhl für Ökologie und Naturschutzbiologie (Prof. Dr. Peter Poschlod) |
| Depositing User: | Petra Gürster |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2021 09:05 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Apr 2021 09:05 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/44561 |
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