Human response to the Holocene environmental changes in the Biržulis Lake region, NW Lithuania

Stančikaitė, Miglė; Baltrūnas, Valentinas; Šinkūnas, Petras; Kisielienė, Dalia; Ostrauskas, Tomas

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2006.01.010

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“…Picea reappeared at 7300-6800 cal year BP (Gaidamavičius et al 2011). In north-western Lithuania, immigration of Corylus was dated back to 7600-7200 cal year BP, Alnusback to 7300-6900 cal year BP, and Ulmus-back to 8100-7500 cal year BP (Stančikaitė et al 2006). After about 9800-9900 cal year BP, the expansion of deciduous species was accompanied by the spread of Cladium mariscus (L.) Pohl, suggesting that minimum mean July temperature increased up to +15.5°C even in the northern part of the country.…”

Section: The Holocene Thermal Maximummentioning

confidence: 99%

“…8000-4500 cal year BP, with dryer and warmer summers reflecting stronger continentality (Seppä and Poska 2004), was generally responsible for expansion of deciduous trees to the eastern Baltic Sea region. These taxa continued to flourish there between about 7500 and 4200 cal year BP (Stančikaitė et al 2003(Stančikaitė et al , 2004(Stančikaitė et al , 2006(Stančikaitė et al , 2008(Stančikaitė et al , 2009Giesecke and Bennett 2004;Giesecke et al 2008;Gaidamavičius et al 2011).…”

Section: The Holocene Thermal Maximummentioning

confidence: 99%

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Climate Change During the Holocene (Past 12,000 Years)

Борзенкова

Zorita

Borisova

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Regional Climate Studies

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This chapter summarises the climatic and environmental information that can be inferred from proxy archives over the past 12,000 years. The proxy archives from continental and lake sediments include pollen, insect remnants and isotopic data. Over the Holocene, the Baltic Sea area underwent major changes due to two interrelated factors-melting of the Fennoscandian ice sheet (causing interplay between global sea-level rise due to the meltwater and regional isostatic rebound of the earth's crust causing a drop in relative sea level) and changes in the orbital configuration of the Earth (triggering the glacial to interglacial transition and affecting incoming solar radiation and so controlling the regional energy balance). The Holocene climate history showed three stages of natural climate oscillations in the Baltic Sea region: short-term cold episodes related to deglaciation during a stable positive temperature trend (11,000-8000 cal year BP); a warm and stable climate with air temperature 1.0-3.5°C above modern levels (8000-4500 cal year BP), a decreasing temperature trend; and increased climatic instability (last 5000-4500 years). The climatic variation during the Lateglacial and Holocene is reflected in the changing lake levels and vegetation, and in the formation of a complex hydrographical network that set the stage for the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age of the past millennium.

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Section: The Holocene Thermal Maximummentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Holocene Thermal Maximummentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Change During the Holocene (Past 12,000 Years)

Борзенкова

Zorita

Borisova

et al. 2015

Regional Climate Studies

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“…A similar correlation was found in Wigry (Kupryjanowicz and Jurochnik 2009). In the Baltic states, the increase in human activity demonstrated by the presence of cereal pollen was found several centuries earlier (Stančikait_ e et al 2002(Stančikait_ e et al , 2006Zernitskaya and Mikhailov 2009;Ozola et al 2010). Cerealia pollen was reported in the Pojezierze Mazurskie (Great Masurian Lake District) *100 years earlier (Wacnik et al 2012).…”

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Postglacial history of vegetation, human activity and lake-level changes at Jezioro Linówek in northeast Poland, based on multi-proxy data

Gałka

Tobolski

Zawisza

et al. 2013

Veget Hist Archaeobot

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“…In northeast Lithuania, a reduction in woodland and an increase in agricultural activity of Late Iron Age date is apparent in pollen sequences from Lake Biržulis (Li-2; Stančikaitė et al 2006), the Baltija Uplands (Li-4; Stančikaitė et al 2004) and from Impiltis Iron Age hill-fort on the Curonian coast (Li-1; Stančikaitė et al 2009), followed by a regression in human activity during the medieval period. This is most obvious from Impiltis, where there is significant woodland regeneration and a reduction in agricultural activity from ca.…”

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Medieval Landscape Transformation in the Southeast and Eastern Baltic: Palaeoenvironmental Perspectives on the Colanisation of Frontier Landscapes

Brown

Pluskowski

2013

Archaeologia Baltica

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The history of the medieval Baltic is dominated by the crusading movement of the 13th to 15th centuries. The crusades resulted in significant changes to the organisation, ownership and administration of the landscape, with a significant shift in patterns of land use. However, our understanding of the environmental impact of the crusades has been almost exclusively informed by written sources. This paper synthesises existing palynological evidence for medieval landscape transformation in the southeast and eastern Baltic, focusing on the ecological impact of the crusading movement, and considers some key questions, challenges and priorities for future research.

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Human response to the Holocene environmental changes in the Biržulis Lake region, NW Lithuania

Cited by 28 publications

References 19 publications

Climate Change During the Holocene (Past 12,000 Years)

Climate Change During the Holocene (Past 12,000 Years)

Postglacial history of vegetation, human activity and lake-level changes at Jezioro Linówek in northeast Poland, based on multi-proxy data

Medieval Landscape Transformation in the Southeast and Eastern Baltic: Palaeoenvironmental Perspectives on the Colanisation of Frontier Landscapes

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