Manfred Rösch
Biographic Data
| ID | 4976293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manfred Rösch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manfred |
| FAMILY NAME | Rösch |
| SIGNATURE | RÖSCH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2021-2601 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Rise and fall of a Celtic central place
Contributions to the European Pollen Database in Neotoma
Cui Bono?” An Agricultural Turning Point in the Roman Provinces Upper Germania and Raetia
The history of agricultural innovation, intensification and the associated diversity of land use and plant food consumption in the Roman provinces of Upper Germania and Raetia was investigated using charred plant macrofossils (on-site data) and pollen assemblages (off-site data). A presence/absence data set compiled from major published data (n=106) allowed to assess the diversity of food plants according to site types. Highest diversity occurred…
The role of fire in the Medieval and Early Modern landscape of Bad Waldsee within the broader context of the pre-Alpine forelands of south-western Germany
Fire, an important element of human land use strategies, was part of many early industrial activities but also of burning incidents that significantly impacted settlement structures and development. The spatial proximity of the historically well-documented medieval town and sediment archive deposited in its central lake (Stadtsee) was taken to investigate the interplay of fire and socio-environmental developments during the preindustrial phase of…
Intensification of agriculture in southwestern Germany between the Bronze Age and Medieval period, based on archaeobotanical data from Baden-Württemberg
A system of farming with an alternation of land use between being cultivated or left fallow as grassland ( Feldgraswirtschaft ) developed in southwestern Germany since the Bronze Age. It involved fallow periods, where the arable land is left without crops in order to let it recover its fertility for several years while becoming grassland. This led to regeneration of the topsoil humus, which could later be mobilized by cultivation. With later farm…
Does site elevation determine the start and intensity of human impact? Pollen evidence from southern Germany
We investigated lake sediments from Großer Ursee, Landkreis Ravensburg, Allgäu, Baden-Württemberg, to explore whether human activity was delayed and less intense at higher sites compared to those in the adjacent lower area around Bodensee (Lake Constance). A 11.1 m high resolution pollen profile from the centre of the lake was analysed, which covers the late Würm and complete Holocene sequence, providing a continuous pollen record of 1,092 sample…
Iron Age utilization of silver fir ( Abies alba ) wood around the Heuneburg – Local origin or timber import
The buried medieval pasture of Onoldswil (Niederdorf BL, Switzerland, ad 1295)
Evidence for rare crop weeds of the Caucalidion group in Southwestern Germany since the Bronze Age
The crop weed communities of dry calcareous soils are today very rare and endangered. In the first half of the 20th century this group was already in an advanced stage of disappearance, caused by the intensification of agriculture since the 19th century. Therefore, botanists only found these plants in a few regions with calcareous soils, obviously reflecting the geological conditions. But many archaeobotanical finds are in places where this speci…
Centralisation and long-term change in farming regimes
This study uses two novel archaeobotanical techniques – crop carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis and functional weed ecology – to determine directly how the intensity of agricultural practice changed from the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age in south-west Germany, with the emergence of fortified hilltop settlements (Fürstensitze or chiefly seats) regarded as the first urban centres in central Europe. The crop isotope and functional weed ecologica…
Seven Millennia of human impact as reflected in a high resolution pollen profile from the profundal sediments of Litzelsee, Lake Constance region, Germany
A profundal core from Litzelsee, a small cirque lake in the western Lake Constance region, was investigated by pollen analysis and dated radiometrically. The upper part of the core, chronologically between 5000 cal bc and 1850 ad, was sampled continuously, resulting in a total of 449 samples, each with a sum of 1,000 arboreal pollen grains. Also in this huge data set, rare taxa, normally lacking or very scarce in pollen profiles, were registered.…
Pollen‐based quantitative reconstructions of Holocene regional vegetation cover (plant‐functional types and land‐cover types) in Europe suitable for climate modelling
We present quantitative reconstructions of regional vegetation cover in north‐western Europe, western Europe north of the Alps, and eastern Europe for five time windows in the Holocene [around 6k, 3k, 0.5k, 0.2k, and 0.05k calendar years before present ( bp )] at a 1° × 1° spatial scale with the objective of producing vegetation descriptions suitable for climate modelling. The REVEALS model was applied on 636 pollen records from lakes and bogs to…
Abies alba and Homo sapiens in the Schwarzwald – a Difficult Story
Farming in the forest—Ecology and economy of fire in prehistoric agriculture
Fifteen years of the Forchtenberg experiment—results and implications for the understanding of Neolithic land use
Botanical off-site and on-site data as indicators of different land use systems
The potential of stomata analysis in conifers to estimate presence of conifer trees
The Late Neolithic Michelsberg culture – just ramparts and ditches? A supraregional comparison of agricultural and environmental data
Der archäobotanische Forschungsstand zur Michelsberger und zur Bischheimer Kultur (5./4. Jahrtausend BC) wurde zusammengetragen und in Zusammenhang mit archäologischen, klimatologischen und biologischen Daten diskutiert. Verglichen mit Bischheim und dem Mittelneolithikum hat die Michelsberger Kultur ein reduziertes Kulturpflanzenspektrum genutzt, mit einem Schwerpunkt bei Getreideanbau. Die Herkunft des tetraploiden Nacktweizens konnte dabei noch…
How was Bell Beaker economy related to Corded Ware and Early Bronze Age lifestyles? Archaeological, botanical and palynological evidence from the Hegau, Western Lake Constance region
The Europe wide spread of what has been called the Bell Beaker phenomenon remains an enigma of European prehistory. While most of the recent research stresses the ideological aspects of using Bell Beaker material culture, here we take a regional and economical perspective. We look for the chronological relationships and the economic choices of the Bell Beaker phase and of its closest neighbours in time and space: the Late Neolithic Corded Ware an…
Forest, Wood, and Ancient Man
Paysages, productions et collectes végétales en Limousin (Massif central occidental) de la Tène finale à la fin du Moyen Âge (100 BC-1 400AD)
Entre 1996 et 2004, plusieurs sites archéologiques du Limousin ont fait l’objet d’une analyse carpologique. Bien que le nombre de sites et de structures analysés soit modeste, près de 219 000 restes carbonisés, imbibés ou minéralisés et environ 300 taxons de plantes cultivées et sauvages ont été déterminés permettant l’élaboration d’une première synthèse pour une période allant de la Tène finale au bas Moyen Âge. Ce travail intègre également la p…
Botanical evidence for prehistoric and medieval land use in the Black Forest
Experimentelle Rekonstruktion eines jungneolithischen Wald-Feldbaus mit Feuereinsatz – ein multidisziplinäres Forschungsprojekt zur Wirtschaftsarchäologie und Landschaftsökologie
Der Artikel fasst wichtige Ergebnisse eines multidisziplinären Langzeitversuchs zur Ökonomie und Ökologie eines für das Jungneolithikum Südwestdeutschlands rekonstruierten extensiven Brandfeldbaus zusammen. Über rund ein Jahrzehnt wurden frisch eingeschlagene Waldflächen mit Schwachholz überbrannt und darauf für das frühe Jungneolithikum belegtes Getreide angebaut. Im einjährigen Anbau konnten durchwegs hohe bis sehr hohe Erträge erzielt werden, …
New aspects of agriculture and diet of the early medieval period in central Europe
Von der Natur- zur Kulturlandschaft. Ein Forschungsprojekt zur jungsteinzeitlichen und bronzezeitlichen Landnutzung am Bodensee
Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg – Nachrichtenblatt der Landesdenkmalpflege, Bd. 35 Nr. 4 (2006)
Experiments on the effects of carbonization on some cultivated plant seeds
Botanical off-site and on-site data as indicators of different land use systems
Pollen analysis of the contents of excavated vessels—direct archaeobotanical evidence of beverages
Human diet and land use in the time of the Khans—Archaeobotanical research in the capital of the Mongolian Empire, Qara Qorum, Mongolia
Centralisation and long-term change in farming regimes
This study uses two novel archaeobotanical techniques – crop carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis and functional weed ecology – to determine directly how the intensity of agricultural practice changed from the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age in south-west Germany, with the emergence of fortified hilltop settlements (Fürstensitze or chiefly seats) regarded as the first urban centres in central Europe. The crop isotope and functional weed ecologica…
Fifteen years of the Forchtenberg experiment—results and implications for the understanding of Neolithic land use
The potential of stomata analysis in conifers to estimate presence of conifer trees
An experimental approach to Neolithic shifting cultivation
New aspects of agriculture and diet of the early medieval period in central Europe
Evaluation of honey residues from Iron Age hill-top sites in southwestern Germany
Seven Millennia of human impact as reflected in a high resolution pollen profile from the profundal sediments of Litzelsee, Lake Constance region, Germany
A profundal core from Litzelsee, a small cirque lake in the western Lake Constance region, was investigated by pollen analysis and dated radiometrically. The upper part of the core, chronologically between 5000 cal bc and 1850 ad, was sampled continuously, resulting in a total of 449 samples, each with a sum of 1,000 arboreal pollen grains. Also in this huge data set, rare taxa, normally lacking or very scarce in pollen profiles, were registered.…
New approaches to prehistoric land-use reconstruction in south-western Germany
How was Bell Beaker economy related to Corded Ware and Early Bronze Age lifestyles? Archaeological, botanical and palynological evidence from the Hegau, Western Lake Constance region
The Europe wide spread of what has been called the Bell Beaker phenomenon remains an enigma of European prehistory. While most of the recent research stresses the ideological aspects of using Bell Beaker material culture, here we take a regional and economical perspective. We look for the chronological relationships and the economic choices of the Bell Beaker phase and of its closest neighbours in time and space: the Late Neolithic Corded Ware an…
Conversion of biomass to charcoal and the carbon mass balance from a slash-and-burn experiment in a temperate deciduous forest
Anthropogenic burning, including slash-and-burn, was deliberately used in (pre)historic Central Europe. Biomass burning has affected the global carbon cycle since, presumably, the early Holocene. The understanding of processes and rates of charcoal formation in temperate deciduous forests is limited, as is the extent of prehistoric human impact on the environment. We took advantage of an experimental burning to simulate Neolithic slash-and-burn, …
Does site elevation determine the start and intensity of human impact? Pollen evidence from southern Germany
We investigated lake sediments from Großer Ursee, Landkreis Ravensburg, Allgäu, Baden-Württemberg, to explore whether human activity was delayed and less intense at higher sites compared to those in the adjacent lower area around Bodensee (Lake Constance). A 11.1 m high resolution pollen profile from the centre of the lake was analysed, which covers the late Würm and complete Holocene sequence, providing a continuous pollen record of 1,092 sample…
Intensification of agriculture in southwestern Germany between the Bronze Age and Medieval period, based on archaeobotanical data from Baden-Württemberg
A system of farming with an alternation of land use between being cultivated or left fallow as grassland ( Feldgraswirtschaft ) developed in southwestern Germany since the Bronze Age. It involved fallow periods, where the arable land is left without crops in order to let it recover its fertility for several years while becoming grassland. This led to regeneration of the topsoil humus, which could later be mobilized by cultivation. With later farm…
Evidence for rare crop weeds of the Caucalidion group in Southwestern Germany since the Bronze Age
The crop weed communities of dry calcareous soils are today very rare and endangered. In the first half of the 20th century this group was already in an advanced stage of disappearance, caused by the intensification of agriculture since the 19th century. Therefore, botanists only found these plants in a few regions with calcareous soils, obviously reflecting the geological conditions. But many archaeobotanical finds are in places where this speci…
The Late Neolithic Michelsberg culture – just ramparts and ditches? A supraregional comparison of agricultural and environmental data
Der archäobotanische Forschungsstand zur Michelsberger und zur Bischheimer Kultur (5./4. Jahrtausend BC) wurde zusammengetragen und in Zusammenhang mit archäologischen, klimatologischen und biologischen Daten diskutiert. Verglichen mit Bischheim und dem Mittelneolithikum hat die Michelsberger Kultur ein reduziertes Kulturpflanzenspektrum genutzt, mit einem Schwerpunkt bei Getreideanbau. Die Herkunft des tetraploiden Nacktweizens konnte dabei noch…
The role of fire in the Medieval and Early Modern landscape of Bad Waldsee within the broader context of the pre-Alpine forelands of south-western Germany
Fire, an important element of human land use strategies, was part of many early industrial activities but also of burning incidents that significantly impacted settlement structures and development. The spatial proximity of the historically well-documented medieval town and sediment archive deposited in its central lake (Stadtsee) was taken to investigate the interplay of fire and socio-environmental developments during the preindustrial phase of…
Abies alba and Homo sapiens in the Schwarzwald – a Difficult Story
Forest, Wood, and Ancient Man
New approaches to prehistoric land-use reconstruction in south-western Germany
Evaluation of honey residues from Iron Age hill-top sites in southwestern Germany
An experimental approach to Neolithic shifting cultivation
Pollen analysis of the contents of excavated vessels—direct archaeobotanical evidence of beverages
Human diet and land use in the time of the Khans—Archaeobotanical research in the capital of the Mongolian Empire, Qara Qorum, Mongolia
Conversion of biomass to charcoal and the carbon mass balance from a slash-and-burn experiment in a temperate deciduous forest
Anthropogenic burning, including slash-and-burn, was deliberately used in (pre)historic Central Europe. Biomass burning has affected the global carbon cycle since, presumably, the early Holocene. The understanding of processes and rates of charcoal formation in temperate deciduous forests is limited, as is the extent of prehistoric human impact on the environment. We took advantage of an experimental burning to simulate Neolithic slash-and-burn, …
New aspects of agriculture and diet of the early medieval period in central Europe
Experiments on the effects of carbonization on some cultivated plant seeds
Botanical evidence for prehistoric and medieval land use in the Black Forest
Experimentelle Rekonstruktion eines jungneolithischen Wald-Feldbaus mit Feuereinsatz – ein multidisziplinäres Forschungsprojekt zur Wirtschaftsarchäologie und Landschaftsökologie
Der Artikel fasst wichtige Ergebnisse eines multidisziplinären Langzeitversuchs zur Ökonomie und Ökologie eines für das Jungneolithikum Südwestdeutschlands rekonstruierten extensiven Brandfeldbaus zusammen. Über rund ein Jahrzehnt wurden frisch eingeschlagene Waldflächen mit Schwachholz überbrannt und darauf für das frühe Jungneolithikum belegtes Getreide angebaut. Im einjährigen Anbau konnten durchwegs hohe bis sehr hohe Erträge erzielt werden, …
Paysages, productions et collectes végétales en Limousin (Massif central occidental) de la Tène finale à la fin du Moyen Âge (100 BC-1 400AD)
Entre 1996 et 2004, plusieurs sites archéologiques du Limousin ont fait l’objet d’une analyse carpologique. Bien que le nombre de sites et de structures analysés soit modeste, près de 219 000 restes carbonisés, imbibés ou minéralisés et environ 300 taxons de plantes cultivées et sauvages ont été déterminés permettant l’élaboration d’une première synthèse pour une période allant de la Tène finale au bas Moyen Âge. Ce travail intègre également la p…
Forest, Wood, and Ancient Man
How was Bell Beaker economy related to Corded Ware and Early Bronze Age lifestyles? Archaeological, botanical and palynological evidence from the Hegau, Western Lake Constance region
The Europe wide spread of what has been called the Bell Beaker phenomenon remains an enigma of European prehistory. While most of the recent research stresses the ideological aspects of using Bell Beaker material culture, here we take a regional and economical perspective. We look for the chronological relationships and the economic choices of the Bell Beaker phase and of its closest neighbours in time and space: the Late Neolithic Corded Ware an…
Farming in the forest—Ecology and economy of fire in prehistoric agriculture
Fifteen years of the Forchtenberg experiment—results and implications for the understanding of Neolithic land use
Botanical off-site and on-site data as indicators of different land use systems
The potential of stomata analysis in conifers to estimate presence of conifer trees
The Late Neolithic Michelsberg culture – just ramparts and ditches? A supraregional comparison of agricultural and environmental data
Der archäobotanische Forschungsstand zur Michelsberger und zur Bischheimer Kultur (5./4. Jahrtausend BC) wurde zusammengetragen und in Zusammenhang mit archäologischen, klimatologischen und biologischen Daten diskutiert. Verglichen mit Bischheim und dem Mittelneolithikum hat die Michelsberger Kultur ein reduziertes Kulturpflanzenspektrum genutzt, mit einem Schwerpunkt bei Getreideanbau. Die Herkunft des tetraploiden Nacktweizens konnte dabei noch…
Pollen‐based quantitative reconstructions of Holocene regional vegetation cover (plant‐functional types and land‐cover types) in Europe suitable for climate modelling
We present quantitative reconstructions of regional vegetation cover in north‐western Europe, western Europe north of the Alps, and eastern Europe for five time windows in the Holocene [around 6k, 3k, 0.5k, 0.2k, and 0.05k calendar years before present ( bp )] at a 1° × 1° spatial scale with the objective of producing vegetation descriptions suitable for climate modelling. The REVEALS model was applied on 636 pollen records from lakes and bogs to…
Abies alba and Homo sapiens in the Schwarzwald – a Difficult Story
Seven Millennia of human impact as reflected in a high resolution pollen profile from the profundal sediments of Litzelsee, Lake Constance region, Germany
A profundal core from Litzelsee, a small cirque lake in the western Lake Constance region, was investigated by pollen analysis and dated radiometrically. The upper part of the core, chronologically between 5000 cal bc and 1850 ad, was sampled continuously, resulting in a total of 449 samples, each with a sum of 1,000 arboreal pollen grains. Also in this huge data set, rare taxa, normally lacking or very scarce in pollen profiles, were registered.…
The buried medieval pasture of Onoldswil (Niederdorf BL, Switzerland, ad 1295)
Evidence for rare crop weeds of the Caucalidion group in Southwestern Germany since the Bronze Age
The crop weed communities of dry calcareous soils are today very rare and endangered. In the first half of the 20th century this group was already in an advanced stage of disappearance, caused by the intensification of agriculture since the 19th century. Therefore, botanists only found these plants in a few regions with calcareous soils, obviously reflecting the geological conditions. But many archaeobotanical finds are in places where this speci…
Centralisation and long-term change in farming regimes
This study uses two novel archaeobotanical techniques – crop carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis and functional weed ecology – to determine directly how the intensity of agricultural practice changed from the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age in south-west Germany, with the emergence of fortified hilltop settlements (Fürstensitze or chiefly seats) regarded as the first urban centres in central Europe. The crop isotope and functional weed ecologica…
Iron Age utilization of silver fir ( Abies alba ) wood around the Heuneburg – Local origin or timber import
Geography (23 works) · Archaeology (19 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (19 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (17 works) · Biology (16 works) · Ecology (13 works) · Agriculture (10 works) · Pollen (9 works) · Environmental Science (8 works) · Geology (7 works)