Emerging mediaeval heritage
Environmental history research at Băgău (c. Alba, Romania) and the Bottomless Lake (Tăul fără fund)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13145253 |
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| Authors | Elek Benkő (0000-0003-3937-0212, ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities, corresponding author), Lóránd Silye (0000-0001-7306-6041, Babeș-Bolyai University), Attila Toth (0000-0001-5621-5893, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania), Ilona Pál (0000-0002-4227-6107, Savaria University Centre, Eötvös Loránd University, Károlyi Gáspár square 1/C, 9700 Szombathely, Hungary), Frink József Pál (“Marin Drăcea” National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry, Horea st. 65, 400202 Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Gusztáv Jakab (0000-0002-2569-5967, Magyar Agrár- és Élettudományi Egyetem) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 191-203 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-5210 • E-ISSN: 1588-2551 |
| Publisher | Akadémiai Kiadó (PUBLISHER • HU) |
| DOI | 10.1556/072.2022.00015 |
| OpenAlex | W4307511313 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
The investigation of a 8.1 m long peat sequence from Tăul fără fund (“Bottomless Lake,” Transylvanian Basin, Northern Romania) offers a series representing wetland development since the Middle Holocene. The most striking feature of the sequence is a cca. 900 year-long hiatus caused by peatcutting in the 14 th century AD. An artificial reservoir was constructed there in the Late Middle Ages by the excavation of the uppermost peat layer, afflicting a significant environmental impact on this remote location. One of the oldest documented Hungarian settlements from the time of the Hungarian Kingdom (11 th century AD, presumably with previous history) in Transylvania was discovered in the vicinity of the former reservoir by an archaeological field survey. By harmonising historical data and the exact chronological sequence of the borehole, the creation of the reservoir was inserted into the local history of the developing mediaeval settlement network at the time when some of the early settlements had been abandoned and a permanent village was established, with a church and upscale landowners, in the area of present-day Băgău in the 13 th to 14 th century AD. Significant environmental impacts have emerged during this transitional period around the reservoir
Ancient history · Archaeology · Cartography · Excavation · Field survey · Geography · Hiatus · Human settlement · Peat · Period (music · Settlement (finance · Structural basin · Wetland · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · History · Marine and environmental studies · Paleontology
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