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Original research article
| 
28 Jun 2021
Original research article |
| 28 Jun 2021
| 28 Jun 2021
Middle Bronze Age land use practices in the northwestern Alpine foreland – a multi-proxy study of colluvial deposits, archaeological features and peat bogs
Sascha Scherer
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geosciences, Chair of Soil Science and Geomorphology,
Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Rümelinstraße 19–23, 72070
Tübingen, Germany
SFB 1070 RessourcenKulturen, Eberhard Karls University
Tübingen, Gartenstraße 29, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
Benjamin Höpfer
SFB 1070 RessourcenKulturen, Eberhard Karls University
Tübingen, Gartenstraße 29, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
Institute of Pre- and Protohistory and Medieval Archaeology, Eberhard
Karls University Tübingen, Burgsteige 11, Schloss Hohentübingen,
72070 Tübingen, Germany
Katleen Deckers
Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Hölderlinstr. 12, 72072 Tübingen, Germany
Elske Fischer
Laboratory for Archaeobotany, Baden-Württemberg State Office for
Cultural Heritage, Fischersteig 9, 78343 Gaienhofen-Hemmenhofen, Germany
Markus Fuchs
Department of Geography, Justus Liebig University Gießen,
Senckenbergstraße 1, 35390 Gießen, Germany
Ellen Kandeler
Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, Department of Soil
Biology, University of Hohenheim, Emil-Wolff-Straße 27, 70593 Stuttgart,
Germany
Jutta Lechterbeck
Museum of Archaeology, University of Stavanger, Peder Klows gate 30A,
4036 Stavanger, Norway
Eva Lehndorff
Chair of Soil Ecology, University of Bayreuth, Dr.-Hans-Frisch-Straße 1–3, 95448 Bayreuth, Germany
Johanna Lomax
Department of Geography, Justus Liebig University Gießen,
Senckenbergstraße 1, 35390 Gießen, Germany
Sven Marhan
Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, Department of Soil
Biology, University of Hohenheim, Emil-Wolff-Straße 27, 70593 Stuttgart,
Germany
Elena Marinova
Laboratory for Archaeobotany, Baden-Württemberg State Office for
Cultural Heritage, Fischersteig 9, 78343 Gaienhofen-Hemmenhofen, Germany
Julia Meister
Department of Geography and Geology, Chair of Physical Geography,
Julius Maximilians University Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg,
Germany
Christian Poll
Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, Department of Soil
Biology, University of Hohenheim, Emil-Wolff-Straße 27, 70593 Stuttgart,
Germany
Humay Rahimova
Chair of Soil Ecology, University of Bayreuth, Dr.-Hans-Frisch-Straße 1–3, 95448 Bayreuth, Germany
Manfred Rösch
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und vorderasiatische
Archäologie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Sandgasse 7,
69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Kristen Wroth
Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Hölderlinstr. 12, 72072 Tübingen, Germany
Julia Zastrow
Institute for Archaeological Sciences, AG Archaeozoology, Eberhard
Karls University Tübingen, Rümelinstraße 23, 72070 Tübingen,
Germany
Thomas Knopf
SFB 1070 RessourcenKulturen, Eberhard Karls University
Tübingen, Gartenstraße 29, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
Institute of Pre- and Protohistory and Medieval Archaeology, Eberhard
Karls University Tübingen, Burgsteige 11, Schloss Hohentübingen,
72070 Tübingen, Germany
Thomas Scholten
Department of Geosciences, Chair of Soil Science and Geomorphology,
Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Rümelinstraße 19–23, 72070
Tübingen, Germany
SFB 1070 RessourcenKulturen, Eberhard Karls University
Tübingen, Gartenstraße 29, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
Peter Kühn
Department of Geosciences, Chair of Soil Science and Geomorphology,
Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Rümelinstraße 19–23, 72070
Tübingen, Germany
SFB 1070 RessourcenKulturen, Eberhard Karls University
Tübingen, Gartenstraße 29, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
Data sets
Data from: Middle Bronze Age land use practices in the north-western Alpine foreland – A multi-proxy study of colluvial deposits, archaeological features and peat bogs Sascha Scherer, Benjamin Höpfer, Katleen Deckers, Elske Fischer, Markus Fuchs, Ellen Kandeler, Jutta Lechterbeck, Eva Lehndorff, Johanna Lomax, Sven Marhan, Elena Marinova, Julia Meister, Christian Poll, Humay Rahimova, Manfred Rösch, Kristen Wroth, Julia Zastrow, Thomas Knopf, Thomas Scholten, and Peter Kühn https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.sj3tx963f
Short summary
This paper aims to reconstruct Middle Bronze Age (MBA) land use practices in the northwestern Alpine foreland (SW Germany, Hegau). We used a multi-proxy approach including biogeochemical proxies from colluvial deposits in the surroundings of a MBA settlement, on-site archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological data and off-site pollen data. From our data we infer land use practices such as plowing, cereal growth, forest farming and use of fire that marked the beginning of major colluvial deposition.
This paper aims to reconstruct Middle Bronze Age (MBA) land use practices in the northwestern...
