Seven Millennia of human impact as reflected in a high resolution pollen profile from the profundal sediments of Litzelsee, Lake Constance region, Germany
Manfred Rösch|Jutta Lechterbeck
A profundal core from Litzelsee, a small cirque lake in the western Lake Constance region, was investigated by pollen analysis and dated radiometrically. The upper part of core, chronologically between 5000 cal bc 1850 ad, sampled continuously, resulting total 449 samples, each with sum 1,000 arboreal grains. Also this huge data set, rare taxa, normally lacking or very scarce profiles, were registered. ecological evaluation these, focus on anthropogenic indicators, sheds light environmental human impact history Neolithic to Modern times. Further, results are put regional context, together seven other mostly unpublished profiles studied same way.
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany