The Holocene Sedimentation in Sandstone Rockshelters of Northern Bohemia

0145118 - GLU-S 20003018 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Cílek, Václav
The Holocene Sedimentation in Sandstone Rockshelters of Northern Bohemia.
Geolines. Roč. 11, - (2000), s. 66-69. ISSN 1210-9606.
[International Conference on Past Global Changes Upper Pleistocene and Holocene Climatic Variations. Prague, 06.09.2000-09.09.2000]
Grant - others:US(XC) National Geographic Society 6330-98 "The last foragers of the Northern Europe"
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z3013912
Subject RIV: DB - Geology ; Mineralogy
http://geolines.gli.cas.cz/fileadmin/volumes/volume11/G11-066.pdf

Thirty new Mesolithic sites (7-10 millennium BC) were found under sandstone rockshelters of the Northern Bohemia together with abundant fossils. The first half of the Holocene is significantly different from the last few thousand years - the substrate puctuated by a most intense environmental degradation of the whole Holocene during Late Bronze to Early Iron Age. This environmental crisis can be characterised by erosion (deforestration?), de-calcification of the soils and sediments that resulted in pine forest spreading and consequent profound change of fauna and flora (e.g. only 5-7 species of snails had survived in the searched area).
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