Hans-Rudolf Bork
Biographic Data
| ID | 1151540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans-Rudolf Bork |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans-Rudolf |
| FAMILY NAME | Bork |
| SIGNATURE | BORK H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Prehistoric pigment production on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), c. AD 1200–1650: New insights from Vaipú and Poike based on phytoliths, diatoms and 14 C dating
Although Rapa Nui has been proposed as a classic example of cultural collapse, this hypothesis has been repeatedly questioned. This paper investigates cultural continuity on Rapa Nui following the onset of deforestation through a study of red ochre pits. Red ochre pigments are well-known from various contexts on Rapa Nui, but until recently its origin and the extraction process involved in their production were not precisely understood. New excav…
Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road
This open-access book discusses socio-environmental interactions in the middle to late Holocene, covering areas along the ancient Silk Road regions. It offers insights from various disciplinary perspectives, such as archaeology, paleoclimatology, historical geography, agriculture, art, and literacy
Indigenous resource management practices in the Gamo Highland of Ethiopia: Challenges and prospects for sustainable resource management
Anthropogenic influence on rates of aeolian dune activity within the northern European Sand Belt and socio-economic feedbacks over the last ~2500 years
In North-Western Europe, Pleistocene sand sheets have been reactivated during phases of Holocene deforestation and agricultural land use. Although there are temporal overlaps between anthropogenic activity and sand sheet reactivation, the root cause and subsequent feedbacks between aeolian activity and societal response remain largely unknown. Here, we seek to establish cause and effect by examining the detailed co-variation in both timing and ma…
Agricultural terraces as a proxy to landscape history on Madeira island, Portugal
Since the early fifteenth century, huge parts of the Portuguese island of Madeira have been transformed from a natural into a cultural landscape. The most eminent feature of this anthropogenic landscape change is agricultural terraces, which are extremely solid in structure and thus resilient to erosion and collapse. This makes them ideal proxies for studying landscape dynamics. The analysis of eight soil profiles delivered answers to questions r…
The influence of historic land-use changes on hillslope erosion and sediment redistribution
Agricultural societies around the world have dramatically altered the natural landscape, particularly through accelerated soil erosion. The expansion of agricultural land use into steeper headwater areas during the Medieval period in central Europe is known to have caused large increases in soil erosion and sediment redistribution downstream. Although land-use practices changed and improved following this initial impact, it is currently unknown w…
Long-Term Indigenous Soil Conservation Technology in the Chencha Area, Southern Ethiopia: Origin, Characteristics, and Sustainability
Complementary use of pedoanthracology and peat macro-charcoal analysis for fire history assessment: Illustration from Central Germany
Fire and forest history of central European low mountain forest sites based on soil charcoal analysis: The case of the eastern Harz
Long-term environmental changes in some areas of Central Europe are still poorly documented due to the lack of archives suitable for well-established paleoecological approaches. However, paleorecords of such areas would provide important insights into the Holocene vegetation history of Central Europe. To contribute to fill this gap, we conducted soil charcoal analyses to investigate fire and forest history for the eastern Harz Mountains (Germany)…
Neolithic human impact on landscapes related to megalithic structures: Palaeoecological evidence from the Krähenberg, northern Germany
Quaternary landscape formation: The key to understand present day morphodynamics
Humans, climate or introduced rats – which is to blame for the woodland destruction on prehistoric Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Prehistoric and early historic agriculture at Maunga Orito, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile
A long section adjacent to a former obsidian quarry on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) reveals a sequence of agricultural strategies, beginning with the clearing of palm trees in the twelfth century AD, and the making of an open garden growing yams and taro, that continued through the fifteenth century. The later phases between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries include veneer and boulder gardens that reflect the broader strategy employed by the i…
Humans, climate or introduced rats – which is to blame for the woodland destruction on prehistoric Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Prehistoric and early historic agriculture at Maunga Orito, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile
A long section adjacent to a former obsidian quarry on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) reveals a sequence of agricultural strategies, beginning with the clearing of palm trees in the twelfth century AD, and the making of an open garden growing yams and taro, that continued through the fifteenth century. The later phases between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries include veneer and boulder gardens that reflect the broader strategy employed by the i…
Fire and forest history of central European low mountain forest sites based on soil charcoal analysis: The case of the eastern Harz
Long-term environmental changes in some areas of Central Europe are still poorly documented due to the lack of archives suitable for well-established paleoecological approaches. However, paleorecords of such areas would provide important insights into the Holocene vegetation history of Central Europe. To contribute to fill this gap, we conducted soil charcoal analyses to investigate fire and forest history for the eastern Harz Mountains (Germany)…
Anthropogenic influence on rates of aeolian dune activity within the northern European Sand Belt and socio-economic feedbacks over the last ~2500 years
In North-Western Europe, Pleistocene sand sheets have been reactivated during phases of Holocene deforestation and agricultural land use. Although there are temporal overlaps between anthropogenic activity and sand sheet reactivation, the root cause and subsequent feedbacks between aeolian activity and societal response remain largely unknown. Here, we seek to establish cause and effect by examining the detailed co-variation in both timing and ma…
Neolithic human impact on landscapes related to megalithic structures: Palaeoecological evidence from the Krähenberg, northern Germany
The influence of historic land-use changes on hillslope erosion and sediment redistribution
Agricultural societies around the world have dramatically altered the natural landscape, particularly through accelerated soil erosion. The expansion of agricultural land use into steeper headwater areas during the Medieval period in central Europe is known to have caused large increases in soil erosion and sediment redistribution downstream. Although land-use practices changed and improved following this initial impact, it is currently unknown w…
Indigenous resource management practices in the Gamo Highland of Ethiopia: Challenges and prospects for sustainable resource management
Agricultural terraces as a proxy to landscape history on Madeira island, Portugal
Since the early fifteenth century, huge parts of the Portuguese island of Madeira have been transformed from a natural into a cultural landscape. The most eminent feature of this anthropogenic landscape change is agricultural terraces, which are extremely solid in structure and thus resilient to erosion and collapse. This makes them ideal proxies for studying landscape dynamics. The analysis of eight soil profiles delivered answers to questions r…
Prehistoric and early historic agriculture at Maunga Orito, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile
A long section adjacent to a former obsidian quarry on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) reveals a sequence of agricultural strategies, beginning with the clearing of palm trees in the twelfth century AD, and the making of an open garden growing yams and taro, that continued through the fifteenth century. The later phases between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries include veneer and boulder gardens that reflect the broader strategy employed by the i…
Humans, climate or introduced rats – which is to blame for the woodland destruction on prehistoric Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Quaternary landscape formation: The key to understand present day morphodynamics
Neolithic human impact on landscapes related to megalithic structures: Palaeoecological evidence from the Krähenberg, northern Germany
Complementary use of pedoanthracology and peat macro-charcoal analysis for fire history assessment: Illustration from Central Germany
Fire and forest history of central European low mountain forest sites based on soil charcoal analysis: The case of the eastern Harz
Long-term environmental changes in some areas of Central Europe are still poorly documented due to the lack of archives suitable for well-established paleoecological approaches. However, paleorecords of such areas would provide important insights into the Holocene vegetation history of Central Europe. To contribute to fill this gap, we conducted soil charcoal analyses to investigate fire and forest history for the eastern Harz Mountains (Germany)…
Long-Term Indigenous Soil Conservation Technology in the Chencha Area, Southern Ethiopia: Origin, Characteristics, and Sustainability
The influence of historic land-use changes on hillslope erosion and sediment redistribution
Agricultural societies around the world have dramatically altered the natural landscape, particularly through accelerated soil erosion. The expansion of agricultural land use into steeper headwater areas during the Medieval period in central Europe is known to have caused large increases in soil erosion and sediment redistribution downstream. Although land-use practices changed and improved following this initial impact, it is currently unknown w…
Indigenous resource management practices in the Gamo Highland of Ethiopia: Challenges and prospects for sustainable resource management
Anthropogenic influence on rates of aeolian dune activity within the northern European Sand Belt and socio-economic feedbacks over the last ~2500 years
In North-Western Europe, Pleistocene sand sheets have been reactivated during phases of Holocene deforestation and agricultural land use. Although there are temporal overlaps between anthropogenic activity and sand sheet reactivation, the root cause and subsequent feedbacks between aeolian activity and societal response remain largely unknown. Here, we seek to establish cause and effect by examining the detailed co-variation in both timing and ma…
Agricultural terraces as a proxy to landscape history on Madeira island, Portugal
Since the early fifteenth century, huge parts of the Portuguese island of Madeira have been transformed from a natural into a cultural landscape. The most eminent feature of this anthropogenic landscape change is agricultural terraces, which are extremely solid in structure and thus resilient to erosion and collapse. This makes them ideal proxies for studying landscape dynamics. The analysis of eight soil profiles delivered answers to questions r…
Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road
This open-access book discusses socio-environmental interactions in the middle to late Holocene, covering areas along the ancient Silk Road regions. It offers insights from various disciplinary perspectives, such as archaeology, paleoclimatology, historical geography, agriculture, art, and literacy
Prehistoric pigment production on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), c. AD 1200–1650: New insights from Vaipú and Poike based on phytoliths, diatoms and 14 C dating
Although Rapa Nui has been proposed as a classic example of cultural collapse, this hypothesis has been repeatedly questioned. This paper investigates cultural continuity on Rapa Nui following the onset of deforestation through a study of red ochre pits. Red ochre pigments are well-known from various contexts on Rapa Nui, but until recently its origin and the extraction process involved in their production were not precisely understood. New excav…
Geography (13 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Geology (9 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (7 works) · Physical geography (6 works) · Paleontology (5 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · Environmental Science (4 works) · Holocene (4 works)