Re: LBK onset:Mesolithic boundary (I)

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"Uwe Müller" . . . :

Critical issues are.
1. Noting a transition in trees. Pines to oaks and fruit trees
accorns, fruits etc.

Which is a marker for greater variations in weather,
precepitation, etc.

Why do you think that? It appear to me that the replacement
was anthropogenic.

That certainly was not the case.
The replacement was caused by climate, in this case
the retreat of the ice, followed by recolonisation with
plants and animals, a process that still is not finished.
Please look at the the zonation of tree species
dependent on latitude and elevation.
That is no man-made pattern.

Of course men introduced fruits, and perhaps sowed
or planted useful trees near their home, but on the
whole men probably had a negative influence on the
dispersal of treespecies, by cutting, burning and cattle
grazing. That certainly was the case in the Bronze Age,
and probably already in the Neolithic, although to a lesser
extent.

Because of its heavy acorns, Oak is (was) for its
dispersal completely dependend of animals, in
Europe esp. the Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius).
The same is the case with Beech and Hazel.


Perhaps, in this context, this is interesting for you to read

R. Ebersbach & C. Schade (2004)
Modelling the Intensity of Linear Pottery Land Use.
An Example from the Mörlener Bucht in the
Wetterau Basin, Hesse, Germany
http://pages.unibas.ch/arch/personen/ebersbach2004.pdf
[11 pp, 651 Kb]

M. Ralska-Jasiewiczowa, D. Nalepka & T. Goslar (2003)
"Some problems of forest transformation at the transition
to the oligocratic/Homo sapiens phase of the Holocene
interglacial in northern lowlands of central Europe"
Veget Hist Archaeobot (2003)12:233-247
http://tomcat.bf.jcu.cz/brychp01/Ralska-Nalepka-Goslar.pdf
[15 pp 1.9 Mb]

A. Poska, L. Saarse & S. Veski (2004)
"Reflections of pre- and early-agrarian human impact
in the pollen diagrams of Estonia"
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
209 (2004) 37- 50
http://www.gi.ee/pdfid/10904.pdf
[14 pp, 1.1 Mb]

Björn E. Berglund
"The agrarian landscape development in Northwest
Europe since the Neolithic"
www.humecol.lu.se/woshglec/papers/berglund.doc
[Heavy Word document, caused by the eps figures
which I never managed to see]

See also Berglund's homepage
http://www.geol.lu.se/PERSONAL/bnb/index.htm

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p.a.

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