Pollen Analysis of Terrestrial Soils

Dimbleby, G. W.

doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.1957.tb07446.x

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“…The interpretation of fossil pollen assemblages preserved in mineral soils has been a source of major debate since the pioneering work of Dimbleby (1957Dimbleby ( , 1961. Contributions to this debate include Godwin (1958), Dimbleby (1962), Havinga (1968Havinga ( , 1974, Dimbleby & Evans (1974), and Bottema (1975).…”

Section: Interpretation Of Pollen-analytical Data From Mineral Soilsmentioning

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Fifty years of Quaternary pollen analysis in Fennoscandia 1954–2004

Birks

2005

Grana

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Section: Interpretation Of Pollen-analytical Data From Mineral Soilsmentioning

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Fifty years of Quaternary pollen analysis in Fennoscandia 1954–2004

Birks

2005

Grana

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“…The sediments of both modern and Byzantine samples are probably alkaline, since carbonate concretions were found. Enrichment in CaCo 3 is a typical phenomenon of soils in semi-arid regions (Schachtschabel et al 1992) and high pH may lead to pollen deterioration (Dimbleby 1957, Bryant et al 1994. However, the degree of pollen degradation in the Byzantine samples does not seem to be overwhelming.…”

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Galilee Blooming: First palynological and archaeological data from an Early Byzantine Cistern at Horvat Kur

Neumann

Zangenberg

Shivtiel

et al. 2013

Environmental Archaeology

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Preliminary archaeological and palynological results are presented from an early Byzantine cistern of the village Horvat Kur in eastern Lower Galilee/Israel. The rural site was settled from the Hellenistic until the Early Arab period, its synagogue was constructed shortly after 425 AD and renovated sometimes during the 2nd half of the 6th century AD. It was abandoned probably as a consequence of the earthquake of 749 AD. The intact and properly sealed cistern contained complete or fully restorable pottery. Two cooking pots from the early 5th century AD comprised sediments which was sampled for palynological purposes. Both samples, as well as a sample from the soil beneath one of the pots and a modern surface sample from the site, revealed well preserved palynomorphs in comparably high concentration showing a great potential of the cistern as a pollen archive. The pollen content points to an open, grassy semiarid landscape with an apparent scarcity of cultivars and trees in the vicinity of the site and an abundance of herbs, especially Asteraceae, which are still commonly found in modern regional vegetation.

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“…This might be underneath the parent plant, singly or within flowers, or at some distance after being carried by animals or wind, in the latter case after falling from the air or being washed out by rainfall . Surface soils and organic litter often contain large numbers of pollen grains (Dimbleby, 1957 ;Peck, 1973) that are subject to physical and chemical decay and microbiological destruction . Pollen grains at the soil surface are just another category of siltsized particles that can be washed into streams and lakes with any other particulate sediment component .…”

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Pollen as a chronometer and sediment tracer, Burrinjuck Reservoir, Australia

Clark¹

1986

Hydrobiologia

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Pollen analysis is widely used to reconstruct vegetation and land use histories, but can also provide sedimentological information . At Burrinjuck Reservoir, in south-eastern Australia, annual grass pollen peaks are used to distinguish each year's sediment, even when there are no visible laminations . In conjunction with other dating methods, this allows the determination of year by year influxes of all sediment components . Pollen grains in the Burrinjuck sediments are shown to be predominantly waterborne so that they can be used to trace sediment to its source in particular vegetation stands . Pollen concentration and the proportion of damaged pollen might also distinguish sediment eroded from topsoils and that from subsoils . Pollen analysis can thus be used to locate specific erosion events in both time and space .

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Pollen Analysis of Terrestrial Soils

Cited by 148 publications

References 10 publications

Fifty years of Quaternary pollen analysis in Fennoscandia 1954–2004

Fifty years of Quaternary pollen analysis in Fennoscandia 1954–2004

Galilee Blooming: First palynological and archaeological data from an Early Byzantine Cistern at Horvat Kur

Pollen as a chronometer and sediment tracer, Burrinjuck Reservoir, Australia

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