The Bronze Age battlefield in the Tollense Valley &amp;amp;#8211; conflict archaeology and Holocene landscape reconstruction

Lidke, Gundula; Lorenz, Sebastian

doi:10.5194/deuquasp-2-69-2019

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“…The assumed starting point of the battle is a pathway currently overgrown by peat, which crossed the river and surrounding mire (Jantzen et al, 2014). Results of archaeological excavations and interdisciplinary research on the found materials, as well as geoscientific results on the Bronze Age palaeoenvironment, are presented in Brinker et al (2018), Flohr et al (2015), Krüger et al (2012), , Price et al (2017), and Lidke and Lorenz (2019).…”

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The Quaternary sequence of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: areas of specific interest and ongoing investigations

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Abstract. This paper aims to combine the knowledge of more than 100 years of Quaternary research in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Geinitz, 1922; Deecke, 1907; Schulz, 1967, 1971; von Bülow, 2000; Rühberg et al., 1995; Müller et al., 1995; Katzung, 2004; Kenzler et al., 2015, 2018) including a summary of the areas of specific interest, a general overview of the most recent scientific results and of the ongoing investigations presented during the Field Symposium of the INQUA PeriBaltic Working Group 2019.

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“…In case of humans O isotope composition was measured in single samples of enamel, except the individual from Kowal, for whom enamel, dentin and bones samples were analysed. Location of Tollense after[145], simplified.…”

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Assessing the mobility of Bronze Age societies in East-Central Europe. A strontium and oxygen isotope perspective on two archaeological sites

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European Bronze Age societies are generally characterised by increased mobility and the application of isotopic methods to archaeology has allowed the rate and range of human travels to be quantified. However, little is known about the mobility of the people inhabiting East-Central Europe in the late Early and Middle Bronze Age (1950–1250 BC) whose primary subsistence strategy was herding supported by crop cultivation. This paper presents the results of strontium (87Sr/86Sr) and oxygen (δ18O) isotope analyses in the enamel of people buried in collective graves at the cemeteries in Gustorzyn and Żerniki Górne. These sites are located in Kujawy and the Nida Basin, a lowland and an upland region with clearly different environmental conditions, respectively. Both sites are classified as belonging to the Trzciniec cultural circle and were used between 16th and 13th centuries BC. Among the 34 examined individuals only an adult female from Gustorzyn can be assessed as non-local based on both 87Sr/86Sr and δ18O signatures in her first molar. This may indicate the practice of exogamy in the studied population but more generally corresponds with the hypothesis of limited mobility within these societies, as has previously been inferred from archaeological evidence, anthropological analysis, and stable isotope-based diet reconstruction. New and existing data evaluated in this paper show that the 87Sr/86Sr variability in the natural environment of both regions is relatively high, allowing the tracking of short-range human mobility. A series of oxygen isotope analyses (conducted for all but one individuals studied with strontium isotopes) indicates that δ18O ratios measured in phosphate are in agreement with the predicted modern oxygen isotope precipitation values, and that this method is useful in detecting travels over larger distances. The challenges of using both 87Sr/86Sr and δ18O isotopic systems in provenance studies in the glacial landscapes of temperate Europe are also discussed.

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Geophysical approaches to the archaeological prospection of early modern battlefield landscapes: a review of methods and objectives

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Journal of Conflict Archaeology

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The Bronze Age battlefield in the Tollense Valley &#8211; conflict archaeology and Holocene landscape reconstruction

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The Quaternary sequence of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: areas of specific interest and ongoing investigations

The Quaternary sequence of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: areas of specific interest and ongoing investigations

Assessing the mobility of Bronze Age societies in East-Central Europe. A strontium and oxygen isotope perspective on two archaeological sites

Geophysical approaches to the archaeological prospection of early modern battlefield landscapes: a review of methods and objectives

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