Medieval Farming Practices in Deserted Villages Can be Determined Based on the Nitrogen Isotopic Signature in Recent Forest Soils

Součková, Kateřina; Klír, Tomáš; Hejcman, Michal

doi:10.24916/iansa.2013.1.4

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“…Our evidence supports the hypotheses that the natural development of the local soils began to be influenced during the Neolithic period mostly by working of the soil through tillage and through addition of organic matter as fertiliser. The presence of ‘fertilisers’ at Přízřenice – Modřice is attested by the heterogeneity of grain size changes in the soil and by materials which originate in household or settlement waste (Gojda and Hejcman, 2012; Hejcman et al, 2013; Součková et al, 2013; Uprety et al, 2009). The material includes small-sized and weathered pottery and daub fragments, wood charcoal, charred seeds of crops and weeds and animal bone fragments, fragments of occupation surfaces and aggregates of anthropogenic origin.…”

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Human-induced prehistoric soil buried in the flood plain of Svratka River, Czech Republic

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The natural setting and prehistoric human activity on Holocene floodplains in Central Europe is a compelling issue from several points of view. This environment presents an important sedimentary archive reflecting past human behaviour in interactions with climate change. Two sedimentary sections recorded in the alluvial zone of Svratka River (Moravia) with a buried soil dated to the time span between the Neolithic and Late Bronze Age, and comprising one paleo-catena, were investigated using a multiproxy approach. The buried paleo-catena presents evidence of long-term (ancient) soil development, and the use of the site for human settlement and farming ca. 4500 BC until 1000 BC. Buried soil horizons indicate (climate) stability, which according to archaeological evidence lasted for at least 3500 years, until at least 1000 BC. The architecture and the lithology of the river floodplain changes approximately 0 AD. Anthropogenic settlement activity was not detected at the site in the subsequent period, and this is very likely to be associated with increased sedimentation rates and less optimal conditions for human settlement.

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Human-induced prehistoric soil buried in the flood plain of Svratka River, Czech Republic

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“…Despite intensive research of the deserted medieval settlements and their surface relicts especially (summarized in Čapek -Holata 2017; e.g., Smetánka -Klápště 1981;Smetánka 1988;Černý 1992;Vařeka et al 2006;Klír 2016;Mazáčková -Doležalová -Těsnohlídek 2016), only little attention has been paid to the impact on the soil environment by archaeology or by natural sciences with a minimal focus on the previous field's environment (with a few exceptions e.g. Klír 2008;Sklenička et al 2009;Součková et al 2013). Central European deserted medieval settlements offer interesting possibilities of research of human impact in time and space.…”

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Effect of medieval farming activities on elemental composition of soils – case study of deserted village Regenholz (Czech Republic)

Janovský¹

2022

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Regenholz is a deserted medieval village existing approximately between the 13th and 15th centuries. It originated in the colonisation period when the villages were usually founded in upland regions of Central Europe in the High Middle Ages. The study presents the results of a research based on geochemical and spatial analyses of one of the village’s field areas. The aim of the study was to reveal the spatial characteristics of the elemental composition of the previously ploughed soils which are now covered by forest. The analysed field area comprised bundles of 13 strip plots, which were approximately from 30 to 40 meters (up to 60 meters in two cases) wide and 300 meters long. The village and its fields were adjacent to the village Lovětín, which was analysed and published earlier. This made it possible to compare the geochemistry of the deserted fields of both villages with the same natural conditions and historical development. The soil samples were measured for elemental composition by portable XRF. The composition was dominated by elements generally interpreted as past human activity indicators: P, Zn, Mn, and Sr. Past human presence was represented mainly by Cu and partially by Mn content (P and Sr showed similar trends). The obtained results were compared with the data from the adjacent village Lovětín: the results were similar just by comparing the PCA data. The past human activity indicators reached less spatial diversity than those of natural factors.

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“…Davidson et al 2007, where the P values were higher in the infield than in the outfield); 2) the sampling is linear, but the fields are not sampled to a sufficient length (e.g. by Součková et al 2013 who found a decreasing trend of δ 15 N in the Spindelbach fields). The indications of a decreasing trend were also based on historic evidence.…”

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“…These excavations and researches have only partly been published up to now. Two smaller researches were performed in the area of the fields: sampling for measuring δ 15 N values in 2011 (Součková et al 2013) and excavation of the terrace steps (strip no. 8, distance 50 m: two probes of 10×1×0.4 m) in 2013.…”

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Pedogenesis, Pedochemistry and the Functional Structure of the Waldhufendorf Field System of the Deserted Medieval Village Spindelbach, the Czech Republic

Horák¹,

Klír²

2017

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Medieval Farming Practices in Deserted Villages Can be Determined Based on the Nitrogen Isotopic Signature in Recent Forest Soils

Cited by 5 publications

References 26 publications

Human-induced prehistoric soil buried in the flood plain of Svratka River, Czech Republic

Human-induced prehistoric soil buried in the flood plain of Svratka River, Czech Republic

Effect of medieval farming activities on elemental composition of soils – case study of deserted village Regenholz (Czech Republic)

Pedogenesis, Pedochemistry and the Functional Structure of the Waldhufendorf Field System of the Deserted Medieval Village Spindelbach, the Czech Republic

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