Precision Calendar-Year Dating of the Elm Decline in a Sphagnum-Peat Bog in Southern Sweden

Skog, Göran; Regnéll, Joachim

doi:10.1017/s0033822200030642

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“…At Ageröd Mosse, Scania, Sweden, for example, the decline is dated to several decades around 3770 cal. BC (Skog and Regnéll, 1995) while at Bökebjerg, also in Scania around 40 km away, the decline is dated somewhat earlier, at ca. 3980 cal.…”

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Herbivore diets and the anthropogenic environment of early farming in southern Scandinavia

Gron

Rowley‐Conwy

2016

The Holocene

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Farming practice in the first period of the southern Scandinavian Neolithic (Early Neolithic I, Funnel Beaker Culture, 3950-3500 cal. BC) is not well understood. Despite the presence of the first farmers and their domesticated plants and animals, little evidence of profound changes to the landscape such as widespread deforestation has emerged from this crucial early period. Bone collagen dietary stable isotope ratios of wild herbivores from southern Scandinavia are here analysed in order to determine the expected range of dietary variation across the landscape. Coupled with previously published isotope data, differences in dietary variation between wild and domestic species indicate strong human influence on the choice and creation of feeding environments for cattle. In context with palynological and zooarchaeological data, we demonstrate that a human-built agricultural environment was present from the outset of farming in the region, and such a pattern is consistent with the process by which expansion agriculture moves into previously unfarmed regions.

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Herbivore diets and the anthropogenic environment of early farming in southern Scandinavia

Gron

Rowley‐Conwy

2016

The Holocene

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“…High-precision dating studies of the Ulmus decline have shown that at some sites the destruction of Ulmus populations occurred rapidly, over 2-3 decades (Peglar and Birks, 1993;Skog and Regnell, 1995). At the individual site scale, either intense human activity or a disease epidemic could have achieved this.…”

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Kretzschmaria Deusta and the Northwest European Mid-Holocene Ulmus Decline at Moel Y Gerddi, North Wales, United Kingdom

Innes¹,

Blackford²,

Chambers³

2006

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“…in southern Sweden (Skog and Regnéll 1995). It is hard to infer a precise timing for the elm decline in this study, but the time-depth curve (Fig.…”

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Plant subsistence and environment at the Mesolithic site Tågerup, southern Sweden: new insights on the “Nut Age”

Regnell

2011

Veget Hist Archaeobot

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Pollen was analysed from a sediment sequence collected in the close vicinity of the Mesolithic settlement Tågerup, southern Sweden. Macroremains were also retrieved from numerous samples taken at the site of the archaeological excavations of Kongemose and Ertebølle settlement phases, 6700-6000 B.C. and 5500-4900 B.C. respectively. Plants and other organic remains were well preserved in the refuse layers from the settlements embedded in the gyttja. The pollen record includes no clear indications of human impact on the vegetation during the Mesolithic. The occurrence of charcoal particles and pollen of grass and herbs associated with nutrient-rich soils are contemporaneous with the Kongemose settlement. The Ertebølle settlement phase, although characterised by considerable dwelling activities less than a hundred metres from the pollen sampling site, is scarcely seen in the pollen data. Numerous finds of crushed dogwood stones from the Kongemose phase, often partly carbonised, suggest that these stones were used for the extraction of oil. Other plants found in the Kongemose refuse layers that may have been used are apples, cherries, raspberries, acorns and rowan-berries. Based on the abundance of hazelnut shells found at the studied site and in other studies of Mesolithic sites in southern Scandinavia it is proposed that these remains may testify to an important food supply rather than just use as a supplement to animal protein. It is also hypothesised that a regional decrease in hazel populations and thus hazelnut availability at the end of the Mesolithic may have motivated the adoption of Neolithic subsistence.

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Precision Calendar-Year Dating of the Elm Decline in a Sphagnum-Peat Bog in Southern Sweden

Cited by 20 publications

References 9 publications

Herbivore diets and the anthropogenic environment of early farming in southern Scandinavia

Herbivore diets and the anthropogenic environment of early farming in southern Scandinavia

Kretzschmaria Deusta and the Northwest European Mid-Holocene Ulmus Decline at Moel Y Gerddi, North Wales, United Kingdom

Plant subsistence and environment at the Mesolithic site Tågerup, southern Sweden: new insights on the “Nut Age”

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