Niels Bleicher
Biographic Data
| ID | 5004686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niels Bleicher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niels |
| FAMILY NAME | Bleicher |
| SIGNATURE | BLEICHER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amt für Städtebau |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5986-0222 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A question of method and place? A critical reappraisal of the methods of dendroarchaeology, anthracology, archaeobotany and roundwood analysis on the question when systematic woodland management began…
A Database-Driven Excavation of a Waterlogged Neolithic Settlement
A settlement excavation of a site with waterlogged conditions was conducted in Küssnacht-Immensee (Lake Zug, Canton Schwyz, Switzerland). The documentation abandoned the idea of drawings and verbal description. Instead, based on prior research on the deposition mechanisms of this type of settlements, clearly specified sediment features were documented in a semi-quantitative fashion in a database, allowing for generic 3D modelling of the deposits …
Stability Through Movement
Studies related to prehistoric, Circum-Alpine lakeside settlements have for the last decade or so begun to focus increasingly on the reconstruction of its inhabitant’s social dimensions of life. More traditional models attempting to explain the often-fleeting settlement patterns set in a tightly managed cultural landscape focusing on climate and economic factors alone have proven insufficient and opened up to more nuanced and multi-scalar approac…
Spatializing data in paleoparasitology
Paleoparasitological investigations were carried out on 124 sediment samples from the Swiss Neolithic lakeside settlement of Zürich-Parkhaus-Opéra (layer 13, 3176–3153 years BCE). Analyses revealed the presence of several taxa of human and/or animal gastrointestinal parasites, including whipworm (genus Trichuris), capillariids, tapeworms ( Taenia/Echinococcus and Diphyllobothrium genera) and flukes ( Fasciola and Paramphistomum genera). Owing to …
Middens, currents and shorelines
Circumalpine lakeside settlements have been declared Unesco world heritage in 2011. Their importance is mainly due to waterlogged preservation of organic material and hence the outstanding potential of these sites for performing detailed archaeological studies of prehistoric societies. However, the details of the taphonomic processes (depositional environment, development of anoxia, lateral or vertical displacement of objects, etc.) have rarely b…
Settlement and social organisation in the late fourth millennium BC in Central Europe
With the exception of Circum-Alpine wetland sites, structural remains of fourth-millennium BC settlements in Central Europe are rarely encountered. As a result, there is a dearth of information concerning settlement organisation and social differentiation. Recent excavations at the waterlogged Parkhaus Opéra site on the shores of Lake Zurich have, however, provided important new evidence for the existence of complex Late Neolithic settlement stra…
Quantitative approximation to large-seeded wild fruit use in a late Neolithic lake dwelling
On-site data cast doubts on the hypothesis of shifting cultivation in the late Neolithic (c. 4300–2400 cal. BC)
This article brings together in a comprehensive way, and for the first time, on- and off-site palaeoenvironmental data from the area of the Central European lake dwellings (a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site since 2011). The types of data considered are as follows: high-resolution off-site pollen cores, including micro-charcoal counts, and on-site data, including botanical macro- and micro-remains, hand-collected animal bones, remains of micro…
Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era
An atlas of megadroughts in Europe and in the Mediterranean Basin during the Common Era provides insights into climate variability.
Why are they still there? A model of accumulation and decay of organic prehistoric cultural deposits
Molecular evidence of use of hide glue in 4th millennium BC Europe
Dendrochronological analyses of wood samples from a Late Bronze to early Iron Age site at Lake Luokesa, Lithuania
On the Concept of ‘ in-situ ’ in Lake Site Settlements
The presentation and study of lake shore sites such as the Circum-Alpine pile dwellings is still made difficult by the lack of a systematic approach to the concept of ‘in-situ’. Finds and single components of an archaeological layer can have been subject to many processes both during and after the occupation. This paper presents four hierarchical process levels: the human intention, the first deposition, displacement during the settlement’s occup…
Orbital, ice-sheet, and possible solar forcing of Holocene lake-level fluctuations in west-central Europe
In his comment on Bleicher (2013) Magny presents a revised version of his score method and reaffirms that it can prove a possible influence of solar activity on Central European lake levels. He also stresses the diagnostic value of archaeological lake site settlements. This paper points at methodological problems that are not yet resolved in the revised version. Since there is great consensus that not only is the the Sun a primary forcing factor …
Summed radiocarbon probability density functions cannot prove solar forcing of Central European lake-level changes
It has been argued that Central European lake levels were driven by solar activity. This interpretation rests on the comparison of a score record of radiocarbon dates with the 14 C residual curve. This score record is a variant of a cumulative probability density function (CPF). In this paper it is argued that this method is not valid because the shape of the CPF is determined by the calibration curve. This hypothesis is tested by a set of null m…
Four levels of patterns in tree-rings
On-site data cast doubts on the hypothesis of shifting cultivation in the late Neolithic (c. 4300–2400 cal. BC)
This article brings together in a comprehensive way, and for the first time, on- and off-site palaeoenvironmental data from the area of the Central European lake dwellings (a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site since 2011). The types of data considered are as follows: high-resolution off-site pollen cores, including micro-charcoal counts, and on-site data, including botanical macro- and micro-remains, hand-collected animal bones, remains of micro…
Molecular evidence of use of hide glue in 4th millennium BC Europe
Why are they still there? A model of accumulation and decay of organic prehistoric cultural deposits
Middens, currents and shorelines
Circumalpine lakeside settlements have been declared Unesco world heritage in 2011. Their importance is mainly due to waterlogged preservation of organic material and hence the outstanding potential of these sites for performing detailed archaeological studies of prehistoric societies. However, the details of the taphonomic processes (depositional environment, development of anoxia, lateral or vertical displacement of objects, etc.) have rarely b…
Summed radiocarbon probability density functions cannot prove solar forcing of Central European lake-level changes
It has been argued that Central European lake levels were driven by solar activity. This interpretation rests on the comparison of a score record of radiocarbon dates with the 14 C residual curve. This score record is a variant of a cumulative probability density function (CPF). In this paper it is argued that this method is not valid because the shape of the CPF is determined by the calibration curve. This hypothesis is tested by a set of null m…
Spatializing data in paleoparasitology
Paleoparasitological investigations were carried out on 124 sediment samples from the Swiss Neolithic lakeside settlement of Zürich-Parkhaus-Opéra (layer 13, 3176–3153 years BCE). Analyses revealed the presence of several taxa of human and/or animal gastrointestinal parasites, including whipworm (genus Trichuris), capillariids, tapeworms ( Taenia/Echinococcus and Diphyllobothrium genera) and flukes ( Fasciola and Paramphistomum genera). Owing to …
Dendrochronological analyses of wood samples from a Late Bronze to early Iron Age site at Lake Luokesa, Lithuania
Four levels of patterns in tree-rings
Settlement and social organisation in the late fourth millennium BC in Central Europe
With the exception of Circum-Alpine wetland sites, structural remains of fourth-millennium BC settlements in Central Europe are rarely encountered. As a result, there is a dearth of information concerning settlement organisation and social differentiation. Recent excavations at the waterlogged Parkhaus Opéra site on the shores of Lake Zurich have, however, provided important new evidence for the existence of complex Late Neolithic settlement stra…
On the Concept of ‘ in-situ ’ in Lake Site Settlements
The presentation and study of lake shore sites such as the Circum-Alpine pile dwellings is still made difficult by the lack of a systematic approach to the concept of ‘in-situ’. Finds and single components of an archaeological layer can have been subject to many processes both during and after the occupation. This paper presents four hierarchical process levels: the human intention, the first deposition, displacement during the settlement’s occup…
On the Concept of ‘ in-situ ’ in Lake Site Settlements
The presentation and study of lake shore sites such as the Circum-Alpine pile dwellings is still made difficult by the lack of a systematic approach to the concept of ‘in-situ’. Finds and single components of an archaeological layer can have been subject to many processes both during and after the occupation. This paper presents four hierarchical process levels: the human intention, the first deposition, displacement during the settlement’s occup…
Orbital, ice-sheet, and possible solar forcing of Holocene lake-level fluctuations in west-central Europe
In his comment on Bleicher (2013) Magny presents a revised version of his score method and reaffirms that it can prove a possible influence of solar activity on Central European lake levels. He also stresses the diagnostic value of archaeological lake site settlements. This paper points at methodological problems that are not yet resolved in the revised version. Since there is great consensus that not only is the the Sun a primary forcing factor …
Summed radiocarbon probability density functions cannot prove solar forcing of Central European lake-level changes
It has been argued that Central European lake levels were driven by solar activity. This interpretation rests on the comparison of a score record of radiocarbon dates with the 14 C residual curve. This score record is a variant of a cumulative probability density function (CPF). In this paper it is argued that this method is not valid because the shape of the CPF is determined by the calibration curve. This hypothesis is tested by a set of null m…
Four levels of patterns in tree-rings
Dendrochronological analyses of wood samples from a Late Bronze to early Iron Age site at Lake Luokesa, Lithuania
Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era
An atlas of megadroughts in Europe and in the Mediterranean Basin during the Common Era provides insights into climate variability.
Why are they still there? A model of accumulation and decay of organic prehistoric cultural deposits
Molecular evidence of use of hide glue in 4th millennium BC Europe
Quantitative approximation to large-seeded wild fruit use in a late Neolithic lake dwelling
On-site data cast doubts on the hypothesis of shifting cultivation in the late Neolithic (c. 4300–2400 cal. BC)
This article brings together in a comprehensive way, and for the first time, on- and off-site palaeoenvironmental data from the area of the Central European lake dwellings (a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site since 2011). The types of data considered are as follows: high-resolution off-site pollen cores, including micro-charcoal counts, and on-site data, including botanical macro- and micro-remains, hand-collected animal bones, remains of micro…
Middens, currents and shorelines
Circumalpine lakeside settlements have been declared Unesco world heritage in 2011. Their importance is mainly due to waterlogged preservation of organic material and hence the outstanding potential of these sites for performing detailed archaeological studies of prehistoric societies. However, the details of the taphonomic processes (depositional environment, development of anoxia, lateral or vertical displacement of objects, etc.) have rarely b…
Settlement and social organisation in the late fourth millennium BC in Central Europe
With the exception of Circum-Alpine wetland sites, structural remains of fourth-millennium BC settlements in Central Europe are rarely encountered. As a result, there is a dearth of information concerning settlement organisation and social differentiation. Recent excavations at the waterlogged Parkhaus Opéra site on the shores of Lake Zurich have, however, provided important new evidence for the existence of complex Late Neolithic settlement stra…
Spatializing data in paleoparasitology
Paleoparasitological investigations were carried out on 124 sediment samples from the Swiss Neolithic lakeside settlement of Zürich-Parkhaus-Opéra (layer 13, 3176–3153 years BCE). Analyses revealed the presence of several taxa of human and/or animal gastrointestinal parasites, including whipworm (genus Trichuris), capillariids, tapeworms ( Taenia/Echinococcus and Diphyllobothrium genera) and flukes ( Fasciola and Paramphistomum genera). Owing to …
Stability Through Movement
Studies related to prehistoric, Circum-Alpine lakeside settlements have for the last decade or so begun to focus increasingly on the reconstruction of its inhabitant’s social dimensions of life. More traditional models attempting to explain the often-fleeting settlement patterns set in a tightly managed cultural landscape focusing on climate and economic factors alone have proven insufficient and opened up to more nuanced and multi-scalar approac…
A question of method and place? A critical reappraisal of the methods of dendroarchaeology, anthracology, archaeobotany and roundwood analysis on the question when systematic woodland management began…
A Database-Driven Excavation of a Waterlogged Neolithic Settlement
A settlement excavation of a site with waterlogged conditions was conducted in Küssnacht-Immensee (Lake Zug, Canton Schwyz, Switzerland). The documentation abandoned the idea of drawings and verbal description. Instead, based on prior research on the deposition mechanisms of this type of settlements, clearly specified sediment features were documented in a semi-quantitative fashion in a database, allowing for generic 3D modelling of the deposits …
Geography (15 works) · Archaeology (14 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · Human settlement (8 works) · Geology (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 works) · History (5 works) · Settlement (finance (5 works) · Biology (4 works)