Insight into the environment of a pre-Roman Iron Age hillfort at Vladař, Czech Republic, using a multi-proxy approach

Prehistoric human impact in the mountains of Bohemia. Do pollen and archaeological data support the traditional scenario of a prehistoric “wilderness”?

“…50 × 30 m 2 ), which had been dug out in the central part of the hillfort and used as a water reservoir (Chytráček et al, 2012). The results of the multidisciplinary research focused on palaeoenvironmental methods were published in Pokorný et al (2006). In this study we present the human impact pollen diagram from the cistern and comment mostly on the early La Tène period, the time of the most intensive local settlement.…”

“…The pollen profile from Rozmoklá Žába was cored in 2010 using a piston coring device (tubes 1 m long and 5 cm in diameter; Wright, 1991). In the case study from the Vladař hillfort, selected data from the complete research performed in the years 2004-2010 were used (Pokorný et al, 2006;Pokorný, 2011). Both pollen profiles from Vladař hillfort and Veselov come from dug trenches and were analysed in the years 2005-2010.…”

Comparing seeds/fruits and pollen from a Middle Bronze Age pit in Florence (Italy)

“…The use of C. betulus for tree fodder was observed in the Montale Bronze Age site in N Italy . Also Salix is testified by pollen only (8.5% in SLG1) and could have been used as leaf/twig fodder (Pokorn y et al, 2006); once again Salix pollen percentages never attain such a high percentage in the other stratigraphic units of the site nor in the off-site sequences (unpublished data) making it less likely that the pollen came from willow trees growing in the surroundings. The future analysis of the wooden fragments in the pit might be useful to clarify the origin of many of the tree taxa present in the pollen record.…”

The Prehistoric Wetland Site of Náklo (Moravia, Czech Republic) – a Unique Piece of History

“…There is the Neolithic settlement in Mohelnice (Opravil 1979a;1979b), the Eneolithic site Moravičany (Kühn 1981), La Tène site Řepčín (Kalábek, Kočár 2006), and analogous wetland sites with preserved macrofossils -Early Medieval Mikulčice (Opravil 1972;1983;2000; Latková, Hajnalová 2014) -or sediments from the well in Dražkovice dated to the Roman Period (Sedláček et al 2008). An important wet locality is the pre-Roman Age hill-fort Vladař (Pokorný et al 2006).…”