Late Holocene climatic history of northern Germany and Denmark: peat macrofossil investigations at Dosenmoor, Schleswig‐Holstein, and Svanemose, Jutland

Barber, Keith; Chambers, Frank M.; Maddy, Darrel

doi:10.1111/j.1502-3885.2004.tb01135.x

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“…This change is registered across northern Britain (estimated at cal. yr AD 1350) and Barber et al (2003Barber et al ( , 2004 noted a number of northern European bogs showing wet shifts during the interval ca. cal.…”

Section: Plant Macrofossils and Testate Amoebaementioning

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Two decadally resolved records from north‐west European peat bogs show rapid climate changes associated with solar variability during the mid–late Holocene

Mauquoy

Yeloff

Geel

et al. 2008

J Quaternary Science

102

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General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. ABSTRACT: Two 14 C accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) wiggle-match dated peat sequences from Denmark and northern England record changes in mire surface wetness reconstructed using plant macrofossil and testate amoebae analyses. A number of significant mid-late Holocene climatic deteriorations (wet shifts) associated with declines in solar activity were recorded (at ca. 2150 cal. yr BC, 740 cal. yr BC, cal. yr AD 930, cal. yr AD 1020, cal. yr AD 1280-1300, cal. yr AD 1640 and cal. yr AD 1790-1830). The wet shifts identified from ca. cal. yr AD 930 are concurrent with or lag decreases in solar activity by 10-50 years. These changes are replicated by previous records from these and other sites in the region and the new records provide improved precision for the ages of these changes. The rapidly accumulating (up to 2-3 yr cm À1, $1310 yr old, 34 14 C dates) Danish profile offers an unprecedented high-resolution record of climate change from a peat bog, and has effectively recorded a number of significant but short-lived climate change events since ca. cal. yr AD 690. The longer time intervals between samples and the greater length of time resolved by each sample in the British site due to slower peat accumulation rates (up to 11 yr cm À1 , $5250 yr old, 42 14 C dates) acted as a natural smoothing filter preventing the clear registration of some of the rapid climate change events. Not all the significant rises in water table registered in the peat bog archives of the British and Danish sites have been caused by solar forcing, and may be the result of other processes such as changes in other external forcing factors, the internal variability of the climate system or raised bog ecosystem.

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Section: Plant Macrofossils and Testate Amoebaementioning

confidence: 99%

Two decadally resolved records from north‐west European peat bogs show rapid climate changes associated with solar variability during the mid–late Holocene

Mauquoy

Yeloff

Geel

et al. 2008

J Quaternary Science

102

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“…Having said this, all the evidence does suggest a climatic deterioration, which coincides with the Little Ice Age (c. 600-150 cal. BP) (Swindles, Morris, Baird, Blaauw, & Plunkett, 2012) and is also identified by Langdon, Barber, and Hughes (2003) from Temple Hill Moss, southeast Scotland and Barber et al (2004) in northern Germany and Denmark and is found in many other proxy records from the UK and Europe.…”

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Using palaeoecology to advise peatland conservation: An example from West Arkengarthdale, Yorkshire, UK

McCarroll

Chambers

Webb

et al. 2016

Journal for Nature Conservation

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“…850 cal BC in several peat-derived climate records from north-west Europe (e.g. Charman 1995;van Geel et al 1996;Chambers et al 1997;Barber et al 2004;Mauquoy et al 2004; Blundell and types of artefacts or whether they were intact or broken when deposited (Yates and Bradley 2010). A more detailed study of existing Orcadian Bronze Age artefacts is clearly needed before drawing any firm conclusions, but this study demonstrates the potential value of detailed palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in the interpretation of votive deposits.…”

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Later prehistoric vegetation dynamics and Bronze Age agriculture at Hobbister, Orkney, Scotland

Farrell

2014

Veget Hist Archaeobot

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Later prehistoric vegetation dynamics and Bronze Age agriculture at Hobbister, Orkney, Scotland Farrell, M. (2015 AbstractThe Bronze Age in Britain was a time of major social and cultural changes, reflected in the division of the landscape into field systems and the establishment of new belief systems and ritual practices. Several hypotheses have been advanced to explain these changes, and assessment of many of them is dependent on the availability of detailed palaeoenvironmental data from the sites concerned. This paper explores the development of a later prehistoric landscape in Orkney, where a Bronze Age field system and an apparently ritually-deposited late Bronze Age axehead are located in an area of deep blanket peat from which highresolution palaeoenvironmental sequences have been recovered. There is no indication that the field system was constructed to facilitate agricultural intensification, and it more likely reflects a cultural response to social fragmentation associated with a more dispersed settlement pattern. There is evidence for wetter conditions during the later Bronze Age, and the apparent votive deposit may reflect the efforts of the local population to maintain community integrity during a time of perceptible environmental change leading to loss of farmland. The study emphasises the advantages of close integration of palaeoenvironmental and archaeological data for interpretation of prehistoric human activity. The palaeoenvironmental data also provide further evidence for the complexity of prehistoric woodland communities in Orkney, hinting at greater diversity than is often assumed.Additionally, differing dates for woodland decline in the two sequences highlight the dangers of over-extrapolation from trends observed in a single pollen profile, even at a very local scale.

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Late Holocene climatic history of northern Germany and Denmark: peat macrofossil investigations at Dosenmoor, Schleswig‐Holstein, and Svanemose, Jutland

Cited by 38 publications

References 54 publications

Two decadally resolved records from north‐west European peat bogs show rapid climate changes associated with solar variability during the mid–late Holocene

Two decadally resolved records from north‐west European peat bogs show rapid climate changes associated with solar variability during the mid–late Holocene

Using palaeoecology to advise peatland conservation: An example from West Arkengarthdale, Yorkshire, UK

Later prehistoric vegetation dynamics and Bronze Age agriculture at Hobbister, Orkney, Scotland

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