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From dust till drowned: the Holocene landscape development at Norderney, East Frisian Islands
No full textAbstract Within the multidisciplinary WASA project, 160 cores up to 5 m long have been obtained from the back-barrier area and off the coast of the East Frisian island of Norderney. Thirty-seven contained basal peats on top of Pleistocene sands of the former Geest and 10 of them also had intercalated peats. Based on 100 acclerator mass spectrometry (AMS) 14 C dates and analyses of botanical as well as zoological remains from the peats, lagoonal sediments and the underlying sands, a variety of distinct habitats have been reconstructed. On the relatively steep slopes north of the present island, a swampy vegetation fringe several kilometres wide with carrs of alder ( Alnus glutinosa ) moved in front of the rising sea upwards of the Geest as it existed then until roughly 6 ka, when the sea level reached the current back-barrier region of Norderney at around −6 m NHN (German ordnance datum). From then on for nearly 4000 years a changing landscape with a mosaic of freshwater lakes and fens existed within this area. It was characterised by various stands of Cladium mariscus (fen sedge), alternating with brackish reed beds with Phragmites australis (common reed) and salt meadows with Aster tripolium (sea aster), Triglochin maritima (sea arrowgrass), Juncus gerardii (saltmarsh rush) as well as mudflats with Salicornia europaea (common glasswort). As far as shown by our cores, this highly diverse, and for humans potentially attractive landscape was at least some 4 km wide and followed the coast for about 10 km. Before the rising sea caused diversification of habitats, wet heath as well as dry and dusty sand areas existed. In the course of time, parts of the wet heath turned into raised Sphagnum bogs under an oceanic precipitation regime before this diverse landscape was drowned by the rising sea and finally covered by marine sediments, while the earlier sediments and peats were partly eroded and redeposited
Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany, Lecce 2019
No full textProceedings of the 18th Conference of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany, Lecce 201
Towards quantitative palynology: using pollen accumulation rates and models of pollen dispersal
Get PDFArchaeobotanical analyses of kitchen waste of Jever Castle, 17th/18th century
No full textDuring restoration works in the castle of Jever, Lower Saxony, a hidden niche in the former kitchen wall was found filled-up with wate material: botanical remains, bones, insects, molluscs, bricks, mortar. The analysis revealed a large number of plant species both local and imported (Olea). In addition, bones of mammaly, birds, fishes and amphibia were identified
Archaeobotanical investigations at Upleward 2, Ldkr. Aurich, Germany - dating
No full textDuring a rescue excavation in 2003 at the Wurt Upleward, NW-Germany, two houses of early Medieval age were detected. From one of the profile with several cultural layers samples have been taken and analysed. In addition two parallel auger cores were drilled from the lowermost level with the aim to get to or close to the base of the Wurt. Five radiocarbon dates spanned from the late Iron Age to the early medieval
Archaeobotanical investigations at Upleward 2, Ldkr. Aurich, Germany
No full textDuring a rescue excavation in 2003 at the Wurt Upleward, NW-Germany, two houses of early Medieval age were detected. From one of the profile with several cultural layers samples have been taken and analysed. In addition two parallel auger cores were drilled from the lowermost level with the aim to get to or close to the base of the Wurt. Five radiocarbon dates spanned from the late Iron Age to the early medieval
Archaeobotanical analyses of kitchen waste of Jever Castle, 17th/18th century - sample
No full textDuring restoration works in the castle of Jever, Lower Saxony, a hidden niche in the former kitchen wall was found filled-up with wate material: botanical remains, bones, insects, molluscs, bricks, mortar. The analysis revealed a large number of plant species both local and imported (Olea). In addition, bones of mammaly, birds, fishes and amphibia were identified
Stable isotope analyses ( δ 15 N, δ 34 S, δ 13 C) locate early rye cultivation in northern Europe within diverse manuring practices
No full textStable isotopes provide insights into the early history of rye cultivation from the Migration period to the late Medieval period (fourth to fifteenth centuries CE). Manuring shows high intensity and diversity throughout. Rye as an undemanding crop resistant to drought was cultivated on nutrient-poor sandy soils to a limited extent only. It became a dominant crop owing to its integration into an existing labour-intensive manuring system mainly based on stable dung. Modern experiments demonstrate that the effect of manuring on cereal δ 15 N is strongly mediated by the soil substrate. Conspicuously low δ 34 S values can indicate additional manuring with peat. The Δ 13 C values suggest that the best harvests were achieved on dwelling mounds close to the sea and that relatively poor harvests resulted on fields on dry, sandy soils. Because the mounds were flooded with salt water during winter storm surges, the crop cultivated there might have been summer rye. Winter rye became the dominant crop in Germany around 1000 CE and continued to be until the mid-twentieth century. Intensive manuring allowed for high yields, which facilitated the emergence of village communities and towns and stable political and religious power systems. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Unravelling domestication: multi-disciplinary perspectives on human and non-human relationships in the past, present and future’.Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100010570Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659European Research Council http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/50110000078
Archaeobotanical analyses of kitchen waste of Jever Castle, 17th/18th century - feature
No full textDuring restoration works in the castle of Jever, Lower Saxony, a hidden niche in the former kitchen wall was found filled-up with wate material: botanical remains, bones, insects, molluscs, bricks, mortar. The analysis revealed a large number of plant species both local and imported (Olea). In addition, bones of mammaly, birds, fishes and amphibia were identified
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