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GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY

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Lateglacial And Early Holocene Environments And Human Occupation In Brandenburg, Eastern Germany

Kobe

Franziska

Institute of Geological Sciences, Paleontology.

Berlin.

Bittner

Martin K.

Institute of Geological Sciences, Paleontology.

Berlin.

Leipe

Christian

Institute of Geological Sciences, Paleontology, Freie Universität Berlin; Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University.

Berlin, Germany; Nagoya, Japan.

Hoelzmann

Philipp

Institute of Geographical Sciences, Physical Geography.

Berlin.

Long

Tengwen

School of Geographical Sciences.

Ningbo.

Wagner

Mayke

Eurasia Department and Beijing Branch Office.

Berlin.

Zibulski

Romy

Institute of Geological Sciences, Paleontology.

Berlin.

Tarasov

Pavel E.

Institute of Geological Sciences, Paleontology.

Berlin.

ptarasov@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Freie Universität BerlinGermanyFreie Universität Berlin; Nagoya UniversityGermanyUniversity of Nottingham Ningbo ChinaChinaGerman Archaeological InstituteGermany

2019

10022019

122132147

2019

Kobe F., Bittner M.K., Leipe C., Hoelzmann P., Long T., Wagner M., Zibulski R., Tarasov P.E.

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https://ges.rgo.ru/jour/article/view/597

The paper reports on the results of the pollen, plant macrofossil and geochemical analyses and the AMS 14C-based chronology of the «Rüdersdorf» outcrop situated east of Berlin in Brandenburg (Germany). The postglacial landscape changed from an open one to generally forested by ca. 14 cal. kyr BP. Woody plants (mainly birch and pine) contributed up to 85% to the pollen assemblages ca. 13.4–12.5 cal. kyr BP. The subsequent Younger Dryas ( YD) interval is characterized by a decrease in arboreal pollen (AP) to 75% but led neither to substantial deforestation nor spread of tundra vegetation. This supports the concept that the YD cooling was mainly limited to the winter months, while summers remained comparably warm and allowed much broader (than initially believed) spread of cold-tolerant boreal trees. Further support for this theory comes from the fact that the relatively low AP values persisted until ca. 10.6 cal. kyr BP, when the «hazel phase» of the regional vegetation succession began. The postglacial hunter-gatherer occupation is archaeologically confirmed in Brandenburg since ca. 13 cal. kyr BP, i.e. much later than in the western part of Germany and ca. 1000 years after the major amelioration in the Rüdersdorf environmental record.

pollen analysisplant macrofossilssediment geochemistryAMS 14C datingvegetationclimate change

We are particularly thankful to Geologist Jördis Hofmann from the Museumspark Rüdersdorf for her great help in organizing sampling, getting all necessary permissions and spending several Sundays at the out-crop with us. Richard Henneberg, Pascal Olschewski and Ennie Schulz (all FU Berlin) are acknowledged for their assistance in the fieldwork and PD Dr. Ralf Milke (FU Berlin) for his help in identification of the LST. This work contributes to the project «Individual life histories in long-term culture change: Holocene hunter-gatherers in Northern Eurasia» (SSHRC Partnership Grant Number 895-2018-1004).

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