Le plateau littoral du Bas-Léon (nord Finistère, Bretagne) au Ier millénaire avant notre ère : perspectives pour une lecture croisée sur les dynamiques du peuplement et du paysage

Daire, Marie-Yvane; Marguerie, Dominique; Fily, Muriel; Baudry, Anna; Quesnel, Laurent; Arbousse-Bastide, Tristan

doi:10.4000/norois.3685

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“…Various sites are situated in coastal areas (e.g. Baudry and Daire, 2013 ; Daire et al, 2011 ; Menez et al, 1990 ). The average distance between settlements is 500–2000 m, but in some microregions, contemporary sites from the last two centuries BC are only a few hundred meters apart ( Le Bihan et al, 1990 ; Menez and Lorho, 2013 ).…”

Section: Results: Iron Age Habitation and Land-use Patternsmentioning

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Land use, settlement, and plant diversity in Iron Age Northwest France

2017

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Various studies using pollen stratigraphies have demonstrated significant correlations between Holocene plant diversity, climate, and human activities. Studies that have analyzed longer Holocene timescales tend to discuss cultural data very superficially. This is remarkable because detailed insights into past human activities may be key to gain an understanding of the observed trends in biodiversity. This study aims to reconstruct and explain spatio-temporal trends in past plant diversity (alpha, temporal, and spatial beta diversity) by integrating data on vegetation dynamics, human subsistence economy, and land-use patterns. The landscape of Northwest France during the greater part of the Iron Age and the start of the Roman period (600 BC–AD 100) is selected as a case study. In total, 30 high-quality pollen-stratigraphical sequences allow for the reconstruction of the main long-term trends in plant diversity and more generally of the changing fabric of the landscape. Additionally, increasingly detailed images of the Iron Age rural landscape are available because of a steep increase in archaeological data (aerial photography, surveys, and excavations). These different types of data are integrated and used as input for a wider discussion on the relation between human activities and plant diversity. In general, the taxonomic richness increases steadily during the period under study. Some spatio-temporal differences are observed. The increasing richness values correspond with the growing impact of human activities on the landscape. Archaeologically documented land-use changes on smaller timescales are less clearly reflected in the richness values and vegetation dynamics, which might result from the (large-scale) research design.

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Section: Results: Iron Age Habitation and Land-use Patternsmentioning

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“…Le Bihan et al, 1990 ; Menez, 1993 ) and coastal regions (e.g. Daire, 2009 ; Daire et al, 2011 ; Hyvert and Le Bihan, 1990 ). The latter also harbor numerous salt production sites scattered along the coastline ( Daire, 2003 ).…”

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Land use, settlement, and plant diversity in Iron Age Northwest France

2017

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“…Brittany's coasts are escarped, with intertidal zones that provide both shelter and fishery facilities which have favoured human settlement and economic development (Daire et al, 2011). Nevertheless, the human settlement chronology in Brittany is still obscure because of the scarcity of well-dated and continuous palynological records.…”

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Coastal palaeoenvironmental record of the last 7 kyr BP in NW France: Sub-millennial climatic and anthropic Holocene signals

Fernane

Gandouin

Penaud³

et al. 2014

The Holocene

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“…The impact of human activities on the environment, which began in the Neolithic, intensified during the Bronze Age due to the development of agricultural practices and crafts (Marguerie 1995; Gaudin 2004; Daire et al 2011), even though there is evidence for some of these practices from the end of the Middle Neolithic. Cereal pollen, therefore, only appeared in the pollen spectra studied by Morzadec-Kerfourn (1974) at the beginning of the Middle Bronze Age on the northern Finistère coastline.…”

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Landscape Evolution and Human Settlement in the Iroise Sea (Brittany, France) during the Neolithic and Bronze Age

Pailler

Stéphan²,

Gandois

et al. 2014

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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International audienceThe Molène archipelago appears to be particularly rich in Neolithic and Bronze Age remains and an exceptional concentration of megaliths has been brought to light. Several settlements are confirmed by dry-stone structures or by shell middens. These data give precious indications on the occupation chronology of the area. Moreover they allow us, for the first time in Brittany, to reconstruct everyday life during the late Prehistoric period.A prerequisite to this reconstruction was a better understanding of the evolution of the environment during this period, which locally implies a better knowledge of paleogeographic changes related to Holocene sea-level rise as well as on floral and faunal resources. The results obtained through paleogeographic reconstructions show that the archipelago since 4500 BC was already disconnected from the mainland. The megalithic monuments must therefore have been erected and used by islanders present on the archipelago from the middle of the 5th to the 2nd millennium BC. The distribution of the megalithic tombs reveals landscape occupation strategies which respond to both cultural choices and natural constraints. Throughout the entire period, geographic isolation has continued to increase, although it did not imply strong cultural specificities. Nevertheless, the increasing remoteness of the islands has fostered the search for livelihoods based on the intense exploitation of coastal resources. Despite their focus on the sea, these people did not neglect what inland areas could offer as evidenced by the early agro-pastoral practices in the archipelago

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Le plateau littoral du Bas-Léon (nord Finistère, Bretagne) au Ier millénaire avant notre ère : perspectives pour une lecture croisée sur les dynamiques du peuplement et du paysage

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Land use, settlement, and plant diversity in Iron Age Northwest France

Land use, settlement, and plant diversity in Iron Age Northwest France

Coastal palaeoenvironmental record of the last 7 kyr BP in NW France: Sub-millennial climatic and anthropic Holocene signals

Landscape Evolution and Human Settlement in the Iroise Sea (Brittany, France) during the Neolithic and Bronze Age

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