TY  - CHAP
A1  - Gumnior, Maren
A1  - Stobbe, Astrid
T1  - Palaeoenvironmental reconstructions at Corneşti-Iarcuri (Southwestern Romania) – preliminary results from geomorphological, pedological and palynological on-site studies
T2  - Bronze age fortresses in Europe : proceedings of the Second International LOEWE Conference, 9-13 October 2017 in Alba Julia (!). Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie ; Band 335, Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie / Prähistorische Konfliktforschung ; 3
N2  - This paper provides a glimpse into the palaeoecological conditions at the prehistoric settlement Corneşti-Iarcuri in the southwest Romanian Banat, which is known as the largest Bronze Age fortification in Europe. Preservation of pollen is generally poor in the region, where extensive marshlands have been drained and converted into arable lands since the 18th century. Remarkably, some fossil topsoils buried under thick colluvial layers within the fortification proved to contain pollen. Together with the sediments themselves, which serve as direct evidence for anthropogenically infl uenced geomorphodynamics and could partially be put into chronological context by radiocarbon dating, the on-site palynological data offer a unique opportunity to reconstruct the palaeoenvironmental setting at Corneşti. Results reveal that during the Chalcolithic period, a partially cleared open woodland with Tilia, Quercus and Corylus prevailed. Soil erosion began in some central parts of the settlement site, resulting in the accumulation of up to 90 cm of colluvium in the main valley. Until the Early Iron Age, regional tree percentages dropped from around 38 to 22 %, while anthropogenic indicators (Cerealia, Plantago lanceolata, Polygonum aviculare) increased from 11 to 16 %. Meanwhile, between 50 to 170 cm of colluvium were deposited at the investigated floodplain sites.
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/53997
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-539978
SN  - 978-3-7749-4204-2
SP  - 237
EP  - 251
PB  - Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH
CY  - Bonn
ER  -