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Cut and covered : Subfossil trees in buried soils reflect medieval forest composition and exploitation of the central European uplands

Authors

KAISER Knut HRUBÝ Petr ALPER Götz TOLKSDORF Johann Friedrich HERBIG Christoph KOČÁR Petr PETR Libor SCHULZ Lars HEINRICH Ingo

Year of publication 2020
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Geoarchaeology
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/gea.21756
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gea.21756
Keywords forest clearing horizon; late Holocene; mining and settlement archaeology; paleosol; subfossil wood
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 in the Harz, Erzgebirge, and Českomoravská vrchovina.
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