Die Archäologie macht Kleinhüninger Dorfgeschichte

Springer, Anita V.; Deschler-Erb, Sabine; Hüster-Plogmann, Heide; Brombacher, Christoph

doi:10.12685/jbab.2003.111-265

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“…Without radiocarbon dating, however, it is not possible to exclude the hypothesis that both graveyards already started in Late Antiquity. Some very scarce and still poorly understood late antique finds from the area around Basel-Kleinhüningen could support this hypothesis [ 131 ]. On the other hand, the lack of grave goods in late antique burials might also be related to the seemingly challenging living conditions leading to a reduced need to emphasize wealth in the funeral context.…”

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Scales of transformations—Modelling settlement and land-use dynamics in late antique and early medieval Basel, Switzerland

Kempf

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2023

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Multicomponent environmental models have increasingly found their way into archaeological research. Mostly, these models aim to understand human patterns as a result of past climatic and environmental conditions over long-term periods. However, major limitations are the low spatial and temporal resolution of the environmental data, and hence the rather static model output. Particular challenges are thus the number of chosen variables, the comprehensiveness of the explanatory parameters, and the integration of socio-cultural decision-making into the model. Here, we present a novel approach to generate annually resolved landcover variability using a broad variety of climatic, geological, hydrological, topographical, and dendrochronological data composites (Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI)). We analyze land-use and settlement capacity and vulnerability to estimate the socio-cultural transformation processes at Basel (Switzerland) during the Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Our results highlight the potential of the PDSI to predict local river run-off behavior from catchment analyses. The model enables to trace landcover as well as socio-cultural response to climatic variability and subsequent adaptation to trends in environmental vulnerability. This approach further helps to understand population dynamics in the periphery of the Roman administrative boundaries and to revise traditional archaeological narratives of large-scale population replacements during the so-called Migration Period.

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