Prehistoric Settlement and Landscape Development in the Sandhill Belt of Southern Thy

Liversage, David; Robinson, David

doi:10.1080/0108464x.1993.10590071

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“…The pollen data from the Gjaevhul site also cover the Hvidbjerg dunefield, and indicate that the aeolian landscape was stabilized and covered by a nearly treeless heath in the Late Bronze Age and early Pre-Roman Iron (Early Iron) Age, (Liversage & Robinson 1995). This environment was suitable for farming and yearround settlement (Liversage & Robinson 1995).…”

Section: History Of Vegetation and Land Use -mentioning

confidence: 88%

“…In places the upper part of this palaeosol has been strongly modified by cultural impact. A sample from the base of the sand unit gave an OSL age of 2700 ±300 years, a sample from the middle part of the sand unit has an OSL age of 2200 in southern Thy (Liversage & Robinson 1995;Clemmensen et al 2001). It is the southernmost of a series of closely associated coastal dunefields between Limfjorden and Hanstholm (Fig.…”

Section: Lodbjerg Coastal Dunefieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Pollen data are also available from the Gjaevhul site at the Lodbjerg coastal cliff (Liversage & Robinson 1995). This pollen diagram covers the period immediately prior to the aeolian activity event considered here.…”

Section: Lodbjerg Coastal Dunefieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ploughsoils from the Late Bronze Age and the early Pre-Roman Iron (Early Iron) Age have been found at several locations along the coast (Liversage & Robinson 1995). According to Liversage & Robinson (1995) there was a marked increase in number of settlements along the coast in the Late Bronze Age. In spite of this high cultural pressure the aeolian landscape was stabi- (1993) and Noe-Nygaard (1995).…”

Section: Lodbjerg Coastal Dunefieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Large-scale aeolian sand movement on the west coast of Jutland, Denmark in late Subboreal to early Subatlantic time—a record of climate change or cultural impact?

Clemmensen¹,

Murray

Bech³

et al. 2001

GFF

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Section: History Of Vegetation and Land Use -mentioning

confidence: 88%

Section: Lodbjerg Coastal Dunefieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Lodbjerg Coastal Dunefieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Lodbjerg Coastal Dunefieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Large-scale aeolian sand movement on the west coast of Jutland, Denmark in late Subboreal to early Subatlantic time—a record of climate change or cultural impact?

Clemmensen¹,

Murray

Bech³

et al. 2001

GFF

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“…Interdisciplinary geoarchaeological studies have been conducted on such buried sites in the coastal dune area of Denmark (Courty and Nørnberg, 1985;Liversage and Robinson, 1995), but no such investigations have been carried out in the inland area of Djursland. This research is the first to document these successive events of landscape stability and instability in the Denmark interior from an earth-science point of view.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Soilscape and land‐use evolution related to drift sand movements since the bronze age in Eastern Jutland, Denmark

2007

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Quarry faces several kilometers long in the Glesborg area in Denmark show that Bronze Age farmers used a sustainable land-use system. Despite nutrient-poor soils, the Glesborg area was under a rotation system in which cropland alternated with grassland. Soil fertility was improved by the addition of household waste and probably also by locally obtained inorganic fertilizer. The soil surface was very stable, and local drift sand movement was limited. Toward the end of the Bronze Age, the landscape changed dramatically with the arrival of overwhelming amounts of drift sand, and farmsteads were abandoned. Subsequent land use on these poor fine sandy soils was no longer capable of maintaining a stable soil surface, and frequent erosion/sedimentation events of more local importance took place. The post-Bronze Age landscape may have been mainly a shifting mosaic of heathland with some temporary arable fields and deflation/accumulation areas. This landscape persisted up to about 200 years ago, when afforestation programs started

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The termination of the last major phase of aeolian sand movement, coastal dunefields, Denmark

Clemmensen¹,

Murray

2005

Earth Surf Processes Landf

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Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of sand samples from stabilized (or inactive) coastal dunes in Denmark provides information on the age of the termination phase of the last major aeolian activity period. A total of 26 sand samples were taken from four different coastal dunefields around the North Sea, Skagerrak and Kattegat coasts of Denmark. The OSL dates indicate that the last major phase of aeolian activity terminated between AD 1860 and 1905. Most of the dunes examined in this study were active around 1820, during a period documented to have been very stormy. A dune management scheme started around 1792, and this no doubt was a major cause of dunefield stabilization, but an overall decline of storminess, particularly spring and summer storminess, around the end of the 19th century must also have contributed to the increasing inactivity of coastal dunes. The new OSL dates on aeolian sand movement agree well with historical data and data from topographic maps on dune movement. This agreement supports the observation from earlier work that OSL dating of recent aeolian sand movement is accurate over the last few decades to centuries.

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Prehistoric Settlement and Landscape Development in the Sandhill Belt of Southern Thy

Cited by 19 publications

References 3 publications

Large-scale aeolian sand movement on the west coast of Jutland, Denmark in late Subboreal to early Subatlantic time—a record of climate change or cultural impact?

Large-scale aeolian sand movement on the west coast of Jutland, Denmark in late Subboreal to early Subatlantic time—a record of climate change or cultural impact?

Soilscape and land‐use evolution related to drift sand movements since the bronze age in Eastern Jutland, Denmark

The termination of the last major phase of aeolian sand movement, coastal dunefields, Denmark

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