Early and middle Holocene ecosystem changes at the Western Carpathian/Pannonian border driven by climate and Neolithic impact

0492950 - BÚ 2019 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Šolcová, Anna - Petr, L. - Hájková, Petra - Petřík, J. - Tóth, P. - Rohovec, Jan - Bátora, J. - Horsák, M.
Early and middle Holocene ecosystem changes at the Western Carpathian/Pannonian border driven by climate and Neolithic impact.
Boreas. Roč. 47, č. 3 (2018), s. 897-909. ISSN 0300-9483. E-ISSN 1502-3885
Institutional support: RVO:67985939 ; RVO:67985831
Keywords : climate change * early Holocene * vegetation
OECD category: Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7); Climatic research (GLU-S)
Impact factor: 3.531, year: 2018

Travertine deposits are unique archives for multidisciplinary studies of past climate changes, associated vegetation development and the evolution of human societies. This study focused on a travertine deposit situated on the border between the Pannonian Basin and the Western Carpathians in a small valley in Santovka village (SW Slovakia), which is unique due to the presence of archaeological artefacts with known radiocarbon ages in the palaeoecological profile. Using a multidisciplinary approach combining macrofossil, pollen, mollusc, lithological and geochemical analyses, this study investigated climate–human–vegetation interactions and provides new important data about the spread of temperate trees at the onset of the Holocene, about further vegetation changes caused by activities of the first Neolithic farmers and about climate changes in the region of southwestern Slovakia.
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