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Di Lorenzo, Halinka, Jung, Reinhard, Pacciarelli, Marco, Weninger, Bernhard and Russo Ermolli, Elda ORCID: 0000-0003-1275-6158 (2021). Human impact and landscape changes between 3000 and 1000 BC on the Tropea Promontory (Calabria, Italy). Holocene, 31 (6). S. 926 - 943. LONDON: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. ISSN 1477-0911

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Abstract

Pollen data were collected from a one-meter peat succession recovered from the top of the Tropea Promontory (Calabria), a territory continuously inhabited throughout Prehistory and Protohistory. The peat was deposited in a small pond/marsh that was gradually filled up. Six C-14 dates allowed the peat growth to be constrained to between ca. 3000 and 1000 calBC. Considerable landscape and land use changes occurred in the area in that time interval, due to both environmental changes and intensive human activities. An open landscape with scattered oak woods characterized the high plain, whereas on the wet soils surrounding the marsh, wet woodlands (Alnus), and hygrophilous vegetation (Cyperaceae) developed, their relative abundance being used to mark the local environmental evolution. The occurrence of different anthropogenic indicators reveals that the area was exploited for agricultural practices (cereal cultivation) and livestock grazing, the latter being the main activity practiced around the marsh between the Eneolithic (stable settlements) and the Early-Middle Bronze Age (seasonal presence). The possibility of climatic influence on the peat evolution was studied by comparisons with well-dated isotope records. The marsh contraction phase roughly coincides with the 4.2 ka calBP event, while the end of peat accumulation postdates the 3.0 ka calBP rapid climate change event.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Di Lorenzo, Halinka UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Jung, Reinhard UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Pacciarelli, Marco UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Weninger, Bernhard UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Russo Ermolli, Elda UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-1275-6158 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-579046
DOI:	10.1177/0959683621994648
Journal or Publication Title:	Holocene
Volume:	31
Number:	6
Page Range:	S. 926 - 943
Date:	2021
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	1477-0911
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Geography, Physical; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/57904