Population history and palaeoenvironment in the Skomantai archaeological site, West Lithuania: Two thousand years

Stančikaitė, Miglė; Bliujienė, Audronė; Kisielienė, Dalia; Mažeika, Jonas; Taraškevičius, Ričardas; Messal, Sebastian; Szwarczewski, Piotr; Kusiak, Jarosław; Stakėnienė, Rimutė

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2012.08.2108

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“…It is possible that to reduce this masking, other analytes (e.g., Fe, Mn, or Ti) can be used as reference elements or even complex nEF indices. Examples of such attempts have been shown earlier [25,112].…”

Section: Tracing Of Contamination Hotspots and Presumable Emission Sources Via Mapping Of Gi Valuesmentioning

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Geochemistry of the Dust Collected by Passive Samplers as a Tool for Search of Pollution Sources: The Case of Klaipėda Port, Lithuania

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Geochemical investigations of total suspended particulates (TSP) help detect hotspots and emission sources in port cities with stevedoring operations. The aim was to reveal these sources via geochemical indices (gI). TSP were collected in Klaipėda using original passive samplers in ten sites during four periods, during one of them, in ten additional sites near iron ore stevedoring (IOS). The contents of 22 elements (PHEs, crustal, Br, Cl) were determined by EDXRF in TSP and characteristic dust (CD) of stevedored iron ore, apatite, phosphorite, potassium fertilizers, and in waste incineration ash. Median Fe content in TSP near IOS was ~29%. The significant anthropogenic origin of clusters Fe–Cr, Sr–P, V–Ni–Zn–Cu, Pb–As, and Mg–Ca, Br–S–Cl was confirmed by gI mapping and analysis of CD. Significant temporal variability of Cl, S, Sr, Ni, Br, V, and Zn due to weather changes was revealed. Near IOS, significantly higher values of gI were found for Fe and Cr, while far from IOS, for K, Sr, Ti, Rb, Cu, Al, Si, Zr, Ca, Mg. Significantly higher values of normalized enrichment factor near IOS were not only for Fe and Cr, but also for As, Pb, S, Mn, Br, and Cl.

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Section: Tracing Of Contamination Hotspots and Presumable Emission Sources Via Mapping Of Gi Valuesmentioning

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Geochemistry of the Dust Collected by Passive Samplers as a Tool for Search of Pollution Sources: The Case of Klaipėda Port, Lithuania

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“…The discovered pollen grains were identified to the lowest possible taxonomic level, and no fewer than 1000 terrestrial pollen grains were counted per each pollen spectrum following Moore et al (1991). For the analysis of the human activity, clustering of the pollen taxa was performed as per Behre (1981), Berglund, Ralska-Jasiewiczowa (1986), Gaillard, Berglund (1988), Hammar (1999), Veski (1998), Poska et al (2004) and Stančikaitė et al (2008Stančikaitė et al ( , 2013.…”

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“…Ac-cording to different proxies, the noted phenomenon, i.e., first of all, the lowering of the mean temperature, started in about 1550 AD (Jones, Bradley 1992), 1350 AD (Hass 1996;Matthews, Briffa 2005) or even in 1250 AD (Luckman 1994;Wanner et al 2011), and lasted until around 1850 AD (Jones, Bradley 1992). It was accompanied by the concurrent abatement of the human-environmental interaction in the peripheral parts of the inhabited areas within the territory of the present-day Lithuania (Stančikaitė et al 2013(Stančikaitė et al , 2019. The fact that the well was abandoned can be explained by both social reasons and environmental changes.…”

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“…In Lithuania, the medieval period was archaeologically studied in numerous towns as well as at burial sites and hillforts as the most evident objects. Historical, archaeological, and environmental sources bear witness that social and economic innovations were exchanged and transmitted from past communities in cultural centres (towns) to those in peripheral settlements (Volkaitė- Kulikauskienė 1978Kulikauskienė , 1981Zabiela 1995;Kuncevičius 2005;Bumblauskas 2005;Stančikaitė et al 2009Stančikaitė et al , 2013Stančikaitė et al , 2019. The system of the infrastructure around Medieval towns indicates a certain level of the country's evolution from an area of separate settlements to the united State (Gudavičius 1991;Bumblauskas 2005;Alexandrowicz 2011).…”

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New insights into the medieval history of a non-urban territory: multidisciplinary investigations in SE Lithuania

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Motuza

Stančikaitė

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This paper presents results of the interdisciplinary investigations into the ancient wooden construction, presumably, a well, discovered near the Pamerkiai village, south-eastern Lithuania. The study aims at ascertaining the context (specific geological-geomorphological situation and the habitation history of this territory) of this comparably well-preserved and very uncommon find. The discovered wooden construction and its environment were investigated applying a multi-disciplinary approach combining the archaeological survey, which includes analysis of the collected artefacts, the dendrological examination of the timber used for construction, investigations of the plant macroremains and pollen found in the infilling material, and the 14C dating (conventional and AMS) of the organic material; and the geological-geomorphological characterization of the site. A new perspective to gain data about the infrastructure that might have existed in the area in the 15th century is provided: the integrated and interdisciplinary research is believed to reveal the natural and anthropogenic context. A discussion on the feasibility of tracing the origins of the modern Pamerkiai village is generated. It is alternatively hypothesized that the discovered wooden construction is part of the stopover place on the highroad that has been archaeologically unexplored.

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“…Maloney 1991; Penny et al 1996; Kealhofer & Penny 1998; Boyd & McGrath 2001; White et al 2004; Antoine et al 2015, 2016), migration patterns (e.g. Schmidt et al 2011; Vlaciky et al 2013; Stančikaitė et al 2013; Cupillard et al 2015), the role of people in constructing local ecologies (e.g. Kershaw 1974, 1986, 1994; Butzer 1996), settlement abandonment (e.g.…”

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Tracing the Networks of Past Societies in Palaeoenvironmental Research

Hall

Penny

2020

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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Population history and palaeoenvironment in the Skomantai archaeological site, West Lithuania: Two thousand years

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Geochemistry of the Dust Collected by Passive Samplers as a Tool for Search of Pollution Sources: The Case of Klaipėda Port, Lithuania

Geochemistry of the Dust Collected by Passive Samplers as a Tool for Search of Pollution Sources: The Case of Klaipėda Port, Lithuania

New insights into the medieval history of a non-urban territory: multidisciplinary investigations in SE Lithuania

Tracing the Networks of Past Societies in Palaeoenvironmental Research

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