Publication details
Paleoekologický záznam středověkého a novověkého osídlení v nivních sedimentech na pomezí Jevišovické pahorkatiny a Dyjsko-svrateckého úvalu
| Title in English | Palaeoecological record of medieval and modern settlement in alluvial sediments at the boundary between the Jevišovice Upland and the Dyje-Svratka Valley |
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Studia archaeologica brunensia |
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| Citation | |
| Web | Digitální knihovna FF |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/SAB2016-1-7 |
| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | floodplain; palaeoecology; human impact; settlement structure; Middle Ages; Modern Times |
| Description | To explore the evolution of landscape in the Middle Ages (MA) and Modern Times (MT), samples were taken from sedimentary infills in floodplains of the Únanovka and Jevišovka streams for the purpose of macroremains, palynological and malacozoological analyses. According to the data obtained, the Jevišovka section reflects the development from the High MA to the MT. The Únanovka 3 section is only related to MT, namely to the time span from the 17th cent. onward. From literary and archaeolog. sources it was found out that settlement structure in the region became stabilised at the turn between the Early and High MA, and this condition lasts until today. HM sediments in the Jevišovka borehole contain a large volume of macroremains from various ecological groups; woody species and forest plants occur sporadically. The 14th cent. layer contained buckwheat. Higher situated layers are dominated by ruderal and segetal plant species with wetland and water taxa; woody plants disappear. The last phase from the 18th – 19th cent. contains macroremains of all ecological groups as well as woody plants, among them Norway spruce needles as an effect of forestry, and cultivated species such as tobacco and poppy. The pollen record in the uppermost part of the Jevišovka section, which probably comes from the 18th cent. to present, indicates strongly ruderalised vegetation in the built-up area of the village. |
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