The later Holocene history of vegetation, land-use and settlements around the Ahlequellmoor in the Solling area, Germany

Jahns, Susanne

doi:10.1007/s00334-004-0055-6

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“…At the Butterburn Flow and Sint Odiliënburg sites, P. lanceolata increased (or remained at high levels) after the decline in cereals, when Poaceae pollen was at high levels, suggesting that it may be regarded as an indicator of pasture at these sites (cf. Jahns, 2005). The fall in land and grain prices resulting from the economic decline and loss of population meant it was more economical to use the abandoned arable land for grazing stock; the shift to pastoral agriculture during the 14th century has been documented across Europe (Vahtola, 2003), including the evidence from Essex described above (Poos, 1991).…”

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Abandonment of farmland and vegetation succession following the Eurasian plague pandemic of ad 1347–52

Yeloff¹,

Geel²

2007

Journal of Biogeography

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Aim This paper reviews the available documentary, archaeological and palaeoecological evidence for the abandonment of agricultural land and consequent regeneration of the forest in Europe after the Black Death. Location Western and northern Europe. Methods This review is the result of an exhaustive search of the historical, archaeological and palaeoecological literature for evidence indicating agricultural decline and forest regeneration in Eurasia during the 14th century. The available evidence for landscape change can be divided into two categories: (1) documentary and archaeological sources, and (2) palaeoecological reconstructions of past vegetation. In the past few years, several pollen diagrams from north‐west Europe have been reported with precise chronologies (decadal and even annual scale) showing the abandonment of farmland and consequent ecological change in the late medieval period. Results and main conclusions There is strong evidence of agricultural continuity at several sites in Western Europe at the time of the Black Death. The effects of the Black Death on the European rural landscape varied geographically, with major factors probably including the impact of the plague on the local population, and soil quality. At two sites in western and northern Ireland, the late medieval decline in cereal agriculture was probably a direct result of population reduction following the Black Death. In contrast, the decline in cereal production began at sites in Britain and France before the Black Death pandemic of ad 1347–52, and was probably due to the crisis in the agricultural economy, exacerbated by political instability and climate deterioration. Much of the abandoned arable land was probably exploited for grazing during the period between the decline in cereal farming and the Black Death. In the aftermath of the Black Death, grazing pressure was greatly reduced owing to reductions in the grazing animal population and a shortage of farmers. Vegetation succession on the abandoned grazing land resulted in increased cover of woody tree species, particularly Betula and Corylus, by the late 14th century. The cover of woodland was greatest at c.ad 1400, before forest clearance and agriculture increased in intensity.

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Abandonment of farmland and vegetation succession following the Eurasian plague pandemic of ad 1347–52

Yeloff¹,

Geel²

2007

Journal of Biogeography

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The first pollen diagram from the Hoher Fläming, Brandenburg (Germany)

Brande

2006

Veget Hist Archaeobot

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On the use of palynological data in economic history: New methods and an application to agricultural output in Central Europe, 0–2000AD

Izdebski

Koloch

Słoczyński

et al. 2016

Explorations in Economic History

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In this paper we introduce a new source of data to economic history: palynological data, i.e. information about pollen grains which are preserved in bottom sediments of various water basins. We discuss how this data is collected and how it should be interpreted; develop new methods for aggregating this information into regional trends in agricultural output; construct an extensive data set with a large number of pollen sites from Central Europe; and use our methods to study the economic history of Greater Poland, Lesser Poland, Bohemia, Brandenburg, and Lower Saxony since the first century AD.

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The later Holocene history of vegetation, land-use and settlements around the Ahlequellmoor in the Solling area, Germany

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

Abandonment of farmland and vegetation succession following the Eurasian plague pandemic of ad 1347–52

Abandonment of farmland and vegetation succession following the Eurasian plague pandemic of ad 1347–52

The first pollen diagram from the Hoher Fläming, Brandenburg (Germany)

On the use of palynological data in economic history: New methods and an application to agricultural output in Central Europe, 0–2000AD

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