Palaeoecological investigations towards the reconstruction of the history of forest clearances and coastal heathlands in south-western Norway

Prøsch-Danielsen, Lisbeth; Simonsen, Asbjørn

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“…BP, 3350-2600 cal. BC (Prøsch- Danielsen and Simonsen 2000a). This coincides with the transition to MN II.…”

Section: Palaeoecological Reviewmentioning

confidence: 62%

“…From the very beginning of the second clearance phase, two distinct environmental courses can be identified in all pollen diagrams in the study area; leading either towards heathland (region A-C) or grassland and permanent fields (region D) (Prøsch-Danielsen 1996;Prøsch-Danielsen and Simonsen 2000a;2000b). Cereal cultivation in region D is well documented through pollen analysis.…”

Section: Palaeoecological Reviewmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…The area comprises four natural geographical regions, separated primarily on the basis of their topography and geology ( The area is further divided into four regions (A-D). The distribution of till and Quaternary deposits is shown in grey (from Prøsch- Danielsen and Simonsen 2000a;2000b) Both the Jaeren (B) and the Lista regions (D) are generally regarded as being among the most favourable, modern and highly efficient farmlands in Norway today. Dalane (C), on the other hand, is a mountainous area dominated by anorthosite, poor in plant nutrients.…”

Section: Study Area and Environmental Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the 1990s, pollen data from 58 localities were compiled, providing a descriptive, chronological, ecological and cultural framework for describing and interpreting the deforestation process (Prøsch-Danielsen 1996;Prøsch-Danielsen and Simonsen 2000a;2000b). Additionally, new data have been generated by measuring magnetic susceptibility (MSc) parameters to soil sections (Prøsch- Danielsen and Sandgren 2003).…”

Section: Palaeoecological Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Impulses of agro-pastoralism in the 4th and 3rd millennia BC on the south-western coastal rim of Norway

Høgestøl¹,

Prøsch-Danielsen²

2006

Environmental Archaeology

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“…BP, 3350-2600 cal. BC (Prøsch- Danielsen and Simonsen 2000a). This coincides with the transition to MN II.…”

Section: Palaeoecological Reviewmentioning

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Impulses of agro-pastoralism in the 4th and 3rd millennia BC on the south-western coastal rim of Norway

Høgestøl¹,

Prøsch-Danielsen²

2006

Environmental Archaeology

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“…The 'utmark' environment is part of a heathland of Atlantic distribution (Prøsch-Danielsen 2001, Prøsch-Danielsen & Simonsen 2000a, which in Jaeren forms a background for the developments of pre-modern and modern land use (Fig. 2).…”

Section: Methodical Approaches To the 'Utmark' Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Past in the Present. Landscape Perception, Archaeological Heritage and Marginal Farmland in Jæren, South‐western Norway

Lillehammer¹

2007

Norwegian Archaeological Review

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This paper examines the background of conflicts in the resource management of a specific type of 'utmark' in the agrarian landscape. The historical relationship between empirically experienced 'utmark' and the resource management of archaeological heritage and environment surrounding it is analysed. The landscape perceptions of two professional management regimes are used as platforms to gain a wider understanding of worldviews in relation to the 'utmark' environment. The landscape orders are based on a landscape cosmology of prehistoric origin, but which modern versions are scaled differently, mirroring changes of worldviews. One management on the other superimposes an extreme dissonance of inferiority between contradictive landscapes aesthetics. THINKING WITH, ABOUT AND IN-BETWEEN LANDSCAPESWhen dealing with the topic of landscape perception a striking dichotomy is apparent. The landscape could represent a territory, which can be apprehended visually, and a set of relationships between people and places, which provide the context for everyday conduct (Thomas 2001:181). Hence a land-scape refers to a picture in painting and drawing, or to natural parts of a country and a province or to a condition, custom and practice (NRO 1937(NRO :2860. While a picture or province may involve thinking about landscape as the perception of an object from outside, a condition, custom and practice explain thinking with landscape as the maintenance of cultural order and tradition of everyday life. When approaching relationships between resource managements of agrarian and cultural heritage landscapes the following questions could easily arise: how do human agents form connections in-between these relationships of landscape perceptions, and what constitutes the connections and disconnections between them?

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Creation of Cultural Landscapes – Decision-Making and Perception Within Specific Ecological Settings

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Dreibrodt,

Eriksen

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Quantitative Archaeology and Archaeological Modelling

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This chapter starts with a theoretical introduction to the concept of the creation and perception of cultural landscapes. Niche construction theory and human agency, often treated as controverse concepts are discussed as complementary aspects of human environment relations. The DPSIR framework (the concept of Driving forces, Pressures, States, Impacts and Responses) is applied as valuable approach for the explanation of the transformations in human behaviour in reaction to environmental developments. Aspects of intended and unintended reactions to human agency and action are discussed as well as the temporal and spatial scales of transformations that consequently occured. Therefore, four examples are presented from case studies within the CRC 1266. The Palaeolithic and Mesolithic use of natural resources will have left visible but short-lived traces in the landscape as first steps towards a cultural landscape. The role of humans in the spread of plants and the influence of human action on the plant distribution and composition are discussed in this context. The Neolithic transformation shows a new dimension of changes in the landscape. The producing economy leads to a wide range of resource extractions that enable a much higher population being nourished by the manipulated environment with anthropogenic open land as a new landscape element or niche. Bronze Age progression and intensification of land use in many areas lead to soil degradation and the widespread expansion of heathlands. Even though the process was too slow to be perceived consciously, associated economic adaptations to this new type of cultural landscape are observable. The fourth example explains an unexpected positive aspect of deforestation. In the context of Neolithic Trypillian megasites the soil developed towards a deep and fertile Chernozem. The role of earthworms is discussed as key factor for the soil development in the transition from a forest and forest steppe towards the agrarian steppe of today. The difference between human agency and human action is discussed for the presented examples as the awareness of the consequences of human behaviour very much depends the velocity of changes and human perception.

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Palaeoecological investigations towards the reconstruction of the history of forest clearances and coastal heathlands in south-western Norway

Cited by 53 publications

References 31 publications

Impulses of agro-pastoralism in the 4th and 3rd millennia BC on the south-western coastal rim of Norway

Impulses of agro-pastoralism in the 4th and 3rd millennia BC on the south-western coastal rim of Norway

The Past in the Present. Landscape Perception, Archaeological Heritage and Marginal Farmland in Jæren, South‐western Norway

Creation of Cultural Landscapes – Decision-Making and Perception Within Specific Ecological Settings

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