Tracking long-term human impacts on landscape, vegetal biodiversity and water quality in the Lake Aydat catchment (Auvergne, France) using pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs and diatom assemblages

Miras, Yannick; Beauger, Aude; Lavrieux, Marlène; Berthon, Vincent; Serieyssol, Karen K.; Andrieu‐Ponel, Valérie; Ledger, Paul M.

doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.02.016

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“…This agrees with the pollen record from Lake Aydat (Fig. 1) nearby (Miras et al, 2015). This type of evolution is a common feature in several pollen records from Western Europe and is associated with the onset of the Neoglacial era (Magny and Haas, 2004) (2) all of the forested vegetation groups seem to be affected by these changes, including the riparian vegetation present on the lakeshore; (3) the high recurrence of arable farming, grazing and trampling indicators suggest more intense and repeated human activity; and (4) the recurrence of different indicators that are mainly transported by run-off, including some possible indicators of soil erosion.…”

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“…7). During this period, pollen and stomata data provide evidence for the local presence of pine in the catchment and the existence of riparian vegetation on the lakeshore despite the fact that deciduous oak woodland was regionally dominant (Reille et al, 1985, Miras et al, 2015. The growing vegetation on the bare catchment promoted soil formation and therefore, reduced its erodability.…”

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“…7,000 years ago (Juvigné et al, 1996). Its steep catchment morphology differs from other regional paleoenvironmental records where landscapes have been strongly affected by human activities since the Neolithic (e.g., Guenet and Reille, 1988, Gay and Macaire, 1999, Miras et al, 2004, Lavrieux et al, 2013, Miras et al, 2015. Therefore, Lake Pavin sediments constitute a key paleoenvironmental archive within this region.…”

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“…27 See Rippon and Fyfe (this volume) for a discussion of pollen records from the British Isles covering Late Antiquity. 28 Miras et al (2015). 29 Litt et al (2009). In a pollen record from Poland, continuous human land use was identified between the 7th c. B.C.…”

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Vegetation and Land-Use Change in Northern Europe during Late Antiquity: A Regional-Scale Pollen-Based Reconstruction

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Fyfe³

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Environment and Society in the Long Late Antiquity

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This chapter presents an overview of land cover and land use change in northern Europe, particularly during Late Antiquity (ca. 2nd-8th c. A.D.) based on fossil pollen preserved in sediments. We have transformed fossil pollen datasets from 462 sites into eight major land-cover classes using the pseudobiomization method (PBM). Through using pollen-vegetation evidence, we show that northcentral Europe, lying outside the Roman frontier (the so-called 'Barbaricum' region), remained predominantly forested until Medieval times, with the main clearance phase only starting from ca. A.D. 750. This stands in contrast to north-west Europe, both inside (France/England) and outside (Scotland/Ireland) the Roman imperial frontier; here a majority of forested land was already cleared prior to antiquity. The implications of this are that Roman expansion into the periphery of the empire largely took over existing intensive agrarian regions in the case of 'Gaul' (France) and 'Britannia' (England and Wales). Pre-existing land-use systems and levels of landscape openness may have played a role in directing the expansion of the Roman empire northwards into Gaul and Britannia, rather than eastwards into Germania. After the period of Roman occupation, partial reforestation is evident in some areas.

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“…27 See Rippon and Fyfe (this volume) for a discussion of pollen records from the British Isles covering Late Antiquity. 28 Miras et al (2015).…”

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Vegetation and Land-Use Change in Northern Europe During Late Antiquity: A Regional-Scale Pollen-Based Reconstruction

Woodbridge¹,

Roberts²,

Fyfe³

2015

Late Antiq. Archaeol.

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This chapter presents an overview of land cover and land use change in northern Europe, particularly during Late Antiquity (ca. 3rd–8th c. AD) based on fossil pollen preserved in sediments. We have transformed fossil pollen datasets from 462 sites into eight major land-cover classes using the pseudobiomisation method (PBM). Through using pollen-vegetation evidence, we show that north-central Europe, lying outside the Roman frontier (the so-called ‘Barbaricum’ region), remained predominantly forested until Medieval times, with the main clearance phase only starting from ca. AD 750. This stands in contrast to north-west Europe, both inside (France/England) and outside (Scotland/Ireland) the Roman imperial frontier; here a majority of forested land was already cleared prior to antiquity. The implications of this are that Roman expansion into the periphery of the empire largely took over existing intensive agrarian regions in the case of ‘Gaul’ (France) and ‘Britannia’ (England and Wales). Pre-existing land-use systems and levels of landscape openness may have played a role in directing the expansion of the Roman empire northwards into Gaul and Britannia, rather than eastwards into Germania. After the period of Roman occupation, partial reforestation is evident in some areas.

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Tracking long-term human impacts on landscape, vegetal biodiversity and water quality in the Lake Aydat catchment (Auvergne, France) using pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs and diatom assemblages

Cited by 42 publications

References 58 publications

A 7000-year environmental history and soil erosion record inferred from the deep sediments of Lake Pavin (Massif Central, France)

A 7000-year environmental history and soil erosion record inferred from the deep sediments of Lake Pavin (Massif Central, France)

Vegetation and Land-Use Change in Northern Europe during Late Antiquity: A Regional-Scale Pollen-Based Reconstruction

Vegetation and Land-Use Change in Northern Europe During Late Antiquity: A Regional-Scale Pollen-Based Reconstruction

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