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Living on the good soil

Relationships between soils, vegetation and human settlement during the late Allerød period in Denmark

Bibliographic Data

ID12200212
AuthorsMorten Fischer Mortensen (0000-0002-4167-8227, National Museum of Denmark, corresponding author), Peter Steen Henriksen (0000-0003-0728-4029, National Museum of Denmark), Ole Bennike (0000-0002-5486-9946, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland)
Year2014
Volume23
Issue3
Pages195-205
Publication date2014-03-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVegetation History and Archaeobotany (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0939-6314 • E-ISSN: 1617-6278
PublisherSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s00334-014-0433-7
OpenAlexW2009370291
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited57

The immigration of woody plants, especially Betula (tree birch), is examined in relation to geomorphological regions in a compilation of Late-glacial plant macrofossil records from Denmark. The immigration of trees led to a large ecological transformation of the landscape and had a major effect on the flora and fauna available to Palaeolithic people. We show that soil type was a controlling factor in the development of vegetation during the Allerød and Younger Dryas periods. Following the first immigration of trees during the Allerød period, woods became established in the eastern part of Denmark, where ice advances from the Baltic had deposited calcareous and clayey sediments. The western and northern parts of Denmark that are characterised by more sandy and non-calcareous sediments remained treeless throughout the whole Late-glacial period. Finds from the Bromme Culture are concentrated in the region which was wooded, suggesting that the regional variable environment allowed local adaptations using the diverse resources available

Allerød oscillation · Archaeology · Biology · Geography · Glacial period · Holocene · Macrofossil · Period (music · Physical geography · Vegetation (pathology · Younger Dryas · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology · Geology · Paleontology

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