Regional patterns of late medieval and early modern european building activity revealed by felling dates

0555131 - ÚVGZ 2023 RIV CH eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Ljungqvist, F. C. - Seim, A. - Tegel, W. - Krusic, P. - Baittinger, C. - Belingard, C. - Bernabei, M. - Bonde, N. - Borghaerts, P. - Couturier, Y. - Crone, A. - van Daalen, S. - Daly, A. - Doeve, P. - Dominguez-Delmas, M. - Edouard, J. - Frank, T. - Ginzler, C. - Grabner, M. - Gschwind, F. M. - Haneca, K. - Hansson, A. - Herzig, F. - Heussner, K. - Hofmann, J. - Houbrechts, D. - Kaczka, R. J. - Kolář, Tomáš - Kontic, R. - Kyncl, T. - Labbas, V. - Lageras, P. - Le Digol, Y. - Le Roy, M. - Leuschner, H. H. - Linderson, H. - Ludlow, F. - Marais, A. - Mills, C.M. - Neyses-Eiden, M. - Nicolussi, K. - Perrault, C. - Pfeifer, K. - Rybníček, Michal - Rzepecki, A. - Schmidhalter, M. - Seifert, M. - Shindo, L. - Spyt, B. - Susperregi, J. - Svarva, H.L. - Thun, T. - Walder, F. - Wazny, T. - Werthe, E. - Westphal, T. - Wilson, R. - Büntgen, Ulf
Regional patterns of late medieval and early modern european building activity revealed by felling dates.
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Roč. 9, JAN (2022), č. článku 825751. ISSN 2296-701X. E-ISSN 2296-701X
Grant CEP: GA MŠMT(CZ) EF16_019/0000797
Výzkumná infrastruktura: CzeCOS III - 90123
Institucionální podpora: RVO:86652079
Klíčová slova: ring * dendrochronology * chronology * insights * history * climate * lead * reconstruction * divergence * evolution * archeology * cultural heritage * dendrochronology * dendroarchaeology * felling dates * history * historical demography
Obor OECD: Archaeology
Impakt faktor: 3, rok: 2022
Způsob publikování: Open access
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.825751/full

Although variations in building activity are a useful indicator of societal well-being and demographic development, historical datasets for larger regions and longer periods are still rare. Here, we present 54,045 annually precise dendrochronological felling dates from historical construction timber from across most of Europe between 1250 and 1699 CE to infer variations in building activity. We use geostatistical techniques to compare spatiotemporal dynamics in past European building activity against independent demographic, economic, social and climatic data. We show that the felling dates capture major geographical patterns of demographic trends, especially in regions with dense data coverage. A particularly strong negative association is found between grain prices and the number of felling dates. In addition, a significant positive association is found between the number of felling dates and mining activity. These strong associations, with well-known macro-economic indicators from pre-industrial Europe, corroborate the use of felling dates as an independent source for exploring large-scale fluctuations of societal well-being and demographic development. Three prominent examples are the building boom in the Hanseatic League region of northeastern Germany during the 13th century, the onset of the Late Medieval Crisis in much of Europe c. 1300, and the cessation of building activity in large parts of central Europe during armed conflicts such as the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648 CE). Despite new insights gained from our European-wide felling date inventory, further studies are needed to investigate changes in construction activity of high versus low status buildings, and of urban versus rural buildings, and to compare those results with a variety of historical documentary sources and natural proxy archives.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0330444