Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe

This is an open access book. Unique in its scope, this book provides for the first time a Southern European perspective on prehistoric wetland settlements and their natural environment. These are dwellings originally built in humid locations, i.e. on shores and in shallow water areas of lakes, bogs,...

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description This is an open access book. Unique in its scope, this book provides for the first time a Southern European perspective on prehistoric wetland settlements and their natural environment. These are dwellings originally built in humid locations, i.e. on shores and in shallow water areas of lakes, bogs, marshes, rivers, estuaries and lagoons. The relevant archaeological remains are in most cases waterlogged and offer outstanding preservation conditions for organic materials and are moreover in close proximity to uninterrupted natural archives (e.g. lake or mire sediments), which allows for a broad range of transdisciplinary research approaches. The sites discussed in this book date from the Neolithic and the Bronze Age (c. 5500–1000 BC), and are located in nine countries of Southern Europe, i.e. Spain, France, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, North Macedonia, Albania, Greece and Bulgaria. Four dimensions of prehistoric wetland settlements are explored in the book – the archaeological, the dendroarchaeological, the palaeoecological and the bioarchaeological: Part I is dedicated to archaeology, i.e. the excavation of settlement remains, their transdisciplinary exploration as well as their interpretation; Part II deals with dendroarchaeology and its contribution to the understanding of occupation sequences and regional chronologies; and Part III concerns uninterrupted off-site palaeoecological records of past ecosystem change, including human–environment interactions, as well as bioarchaeological on-site approaches to subsistence strategies and land use practices. Prehistoric Wetland sites of Southern Europe showcases how different disciplines and areas of expertise from the humanities and the natural sciences meet on an equal footing to elaborate coherent pictures of the past. Besides a cross-section of research statuses of different archaeological sites, currently ongoing research as well as novel, hitherto unpublished case studies and findings are made accessible to the international research community. Drawing on a wide range of expert contributions from both archaeology and the natural sciences, this book targets scholars, professionals, and students from the fields of prehistoric archaeology and palaeo-sciences, and is furthermore of interest to cultural-heritage stakeholders.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1501902025-05-08T09:53:21Z Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe Ballmer, Ariane Hafner, Albert Tinner, Willy Prehistoric Wetland Settlements Wetland Archaeology Underwater Archaeology Southern Europe Dendrochronology Palaeoecology Archaeobtany Bioarchaeology Man-Environment-Interaction Holocene Palaeoclimatology This is an open access book. Unique in its scope, this book provides for the first time a Southern European perspective on prehistoric wetland settlements and their natural environment. These are dwellings originally built in humid locations, i.e. on shores and in shallow water areas of lakes, bogs, marshes, rivers, estuaries and lagoons. The relevant archaeological remains are in most cases waterlogged and offer outstanding preservation conditions for organic materials and are moreover in close proximity to uninterrupted natural archives (e.g. lake or mire sediments), which allows for a broad range of transdisciplinary research approaches. The sites discussed in this book date from the Neolithic and the Bronze Age (c. 5500–1000 BC), and are located in nine countries of Southern Europe, i.e. Spain, France, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, North Macedonia, Albania, Greece and Bulgaria. Four dimensions of prehistoric wetland settlements are explored in the book – the archaeological, the dendroarchaeological, the palaeoecological and the bioarchaeological: Part I is dedicated to archaeology, i.e. the excavation of settlement remains, their transdisciplinary exploration as well as their interpretation; Part II deals with dendroarchaeology and its contribution to the understanding of occupation sequences and regional chronologies; and Part III concerns uninterrupted off-site palaeoecological records of past ecosystem change, including human–environment interactions, as well as bioarchaeological on-site approaches to subsistence strategies and land use practices. Prehistoric Wetland sites of Southern Europe showcases how different disciplines and areas of expertise from the humanities and the natural sciences meet on an equal footing to elaborate coherent pictures of the past. Besides a cross-section of research statuses of different archaeological sites, currently ongoing research as well as novel, hitherto unpublished case studies and findings are made accessible to the international research community. Drawing on a wide range of expert contributions from both archaeology and the natural sciences, this book targets scholars, professionals, and students from the fields of prehistoric archaeology and palaeo-sciences, and is furthermore of interest to cultural-heritage stakeholders. 2025-01-21T18:07:33Z 2025-01-21T18:07:33Z 2024-12-20T10:45:29Z 2025 book ONIX_20241220_9783031527807_60 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/96140 9783031527807 9783031527791 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/150190 eng Natural Science in Archaeology open access image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/96140/1/9783031527807.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/96140/1/9783031527807.pdf Springer Nature Springer Nature Switzerland 10.1007/978-3-031-52780-7 10.1007/978-3-031-52780-7 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a H2020 European Research Council 178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079 9783031527807 9783031527791 European Research Council (ERC) EU collection Springer Nature Switzerland 318 Cham 810586 open access
spellingShingle Prehistoric Wetland Settlements
Wetland Archaeology
Underwater Archaeology
Southern Europe
Dendrochronology
Palaeoecology
Archaeobtany
Bioarchaeology
Man-Environment-Interaction
Holocene Palaeoclimatology
Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe
title Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe
title_full Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe
title_fullStr Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe
title_full_unstemmed Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe
title_short Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe
title_sort prehistoric wetland sites of southern europe
topic Prehistoric Wetland Settlements
Wetland Archaeology
Underwater Archaeology
Southern Europe
Dendrochronology
Palaeoecology
Archaeobtany
Bioarchaeology
Man-Environment-Interaction
Holocene Palaeoclimatology
topic_facet Prehistoric Wetland Settlements
Wetland Archaeology
Underwater Archaeology
Southern Europe
Dendrochronology
Palaeoecology
Archaeobtany
Bioarchaeology
Man-Environment-Interaction
Holocene Palaeoclimatology
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