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Long-term human impact as registered in an upland pollen profile from the southern Black Forest, south-western Germany
A detailed, 14 C-dated, pollen profile from Steerenmoos, a raised bog in the uplands of the southern Black Forest (Schwarzwald) is presented. The...
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Long-term vegetation dynamics and the infilling process of a former lake (Švarcenberk, Czech Republic)
Natural lakes are a rare phenomena within extraglacial areas of Central Europe. Almost all have been completely terrestrialized during the Holocene....
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Towards the reconstruction of the Holocene vegetation history of Lower Provence: two new pollen profiles from Marais des Baux
Two new 14 C-dated Holocene pollen profiles from Marais des Baux, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, are presented. The record begins in the Younger Dryas, when...
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Pollen-derived history of timber exploitation from the Roman period onwards in the Romanche valley, central French Alps
The history of forestry in the Romanche river valley, south-east of Grenoble, France, is reconstructed for the past ca. 3000 years on the basis of...
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Dynamics of bog-pine-dominated mires in the Jura Mountains, Switzerland: A tentative scheme based on synusial phytosociology
A description of the bog-pine ( Pinus uncinata var. rotundata ) dominated vegetation of uncut oligotrophic mires affected by drainage is given. Surveys...
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The relationship of modern plant remains to water depth in alkaline lakes in New England, USAe
Paleohydrologists sometimes use macrofossils of aquatic vascular plants as one of several independent lines of evidence to infer changes in past...
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The diet of the Iceman
The evaluation of the Iceman’s bodily constitution is essential to an understanding of the circumstances of his death and to a reconstruction of the...
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Indicative value ofPediastrum and other coccal green algae in palaeoecology
Sporopollenin layers in the cell wall of coccal green algae are responsible for the resistance of cell walls to destructive processes during...
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A Celtic, La Tène trade centre in Ramsautal in the Dürrnberg, Austria: Macrofossil data towards reconstruction of environment and food plants
Soil samples from a La Tène salt-mining settlement were examined for botanical macroremains. Mining, trade and metal-processing (bronze and iron)...
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Reconstructing Movement in Prehistory
Movement is a universal part of human life. However, it normally leaves no material trace, so movements made in the past are difficult to...
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Late Pleistocene and Holocene pollen stratigraphy at Lago di Vico, central Italy
A new pollen record from Lago di Vico (core V1) provides fundamental new information towards reconstruction of flora and vegetation history in...
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Palaeoecological evidence for Holocene vegetation, climate and land-use change in the low Don basin and Kalmuk area, southern Russia
Two 14 C-dated pollen profiles from mires in the steppe belt of southern Russia are presented. On the basis of these and data from earlier...
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Late-glacial and Holocene vegetation history and dynamics as shown by pollen and plant macrofossil analyses in annually laminated sediments from Soppensee, central Switzerland
The palynostratigraphy of two sediment cores from Soppensee, Central Switzerland (596 m asl) was correlated with nine regional pollen assemblage...
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Missing Plant Foods? Where is the Archaeobotanical Evidence for Sorghum and Finger Millet in East Africa?
Although maize is the most common dietary staple in East Africa today, sorghum and finger millet were important in the past. Nevertheless, direct...
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Recent research in paleoethnobotany
This article discusses paleoethnobotanical research and results presented in the recent literature. Although archaeobotany is a fairly recent...
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Recent Research in Paleoethnobotany
This article discusses paleoethnobotanical research and results presented in the recent literature. Although archaeobotany is a fairly recent...
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The history of beer additives in Europe — A review
The many excavations of medieval sites during recent years have resulted in a strong increase in archaeobotanical records including species which...
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The Exploitation of Wild and Domesticated Food Plants at Settlement Mounds in North-East Nigeria (1800 cal BC to Today)
Settlement mounds in the Chad basin of north-east Nigeria provide excellent archaeobotanical evidence for the use of wild and domesticated grasses...
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Charcoal from West African Savanna Sites
The identification and interpretation of charred wood from sites in the West African savanna present a number of problems and are subject to a number...
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The ostracode record from Harris Lake, southwestern Saskatchewan: 9200 years of local environmental change
Holocene paleoenvironments of Harris Lake, southwestern Saskatchewan, are reconstructed from the ostracode stratigraphy of a 10.4 m sediment core....