Summer temperature drives the lake ecosystem during the Late Weichselian and Holocene in Eastern Europe: A case study from East European Plain

Płóciennik, Mateusz; Mroczkowska, Agnieszka; Pawłowski, Dominik; Wieckowska‐lüth, Magda; Kurzawska, Aldona; Rzodkiewicz, Monika; Okupny, Daniel; Szmańda, Jacek; Mazurkevich, Andrey; Dolbunova, Ekaterina; Luoto, Tomi P.; Kotrys, Bartosz; Nazarova, L. S.; Syrykh, Liudmila; Krąpiec, Marek; Kittel, Piotr

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“…Simultaneously, Holocene cooling events resulted in periodic increases of the water level of lakes and mires (cf. Płóciennik et al 2022). This created successively favourable and less favourable conditions for human settlement (Kittel et al 2021;Wieckowska-Lüth et al 2021).…”

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A deep history within a small wetland: 13 000 years of human-environment relations on the East European Plain

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The transition to the Neolithic on the East European Plain was a very different process to the Western model, featuring a long-lasting hunter-gatherer economy and late introduction of agriculture. The authors present results from multiproxy research on a 13.5m-deep core of organic deposits from the Serteya mire as part of an international research project to understand human-environment relations in the Western Dvina Lakeland.

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“…< 20) of TOC/N ratio for deposits. The latter suggests that organic matter mainly came from algal phytoplankton 49 , 81 . Subcluster Y2 reflects habitat with higher detrital (K, Mg, Ca) and sulphide (Cu, Fe) element concentrations, grouping bottom samples from the RP W3(2) core up to 95 cm and samples of 39–37 cm depth from the RP W1 core (Fig.…”

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“…to track past water-level changes 47 , 48 , in such archaeological sites as Rozprza motte, various factors need to be considered, in particular human impact. In waterlogged sites, such as the Serteya Neolithic pile-dwelling, the human–environment relation can be tracked alongside the quantitatively reconstructed climatic background 22 , 49 . Palaeoecological methods are of great importance while tracking the history of the cities, like Gdańsk 50 and London 51 with the use of profiles of wet sediments.…”

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The spatial and temporal reconstruction of a medieval moat ecosystem

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Moats and other historical water features had great importance for past societies. The functioning of these ecosystems can now only be retrieved through palaeoecological studies. Here we aimed to reconstruct the history of a stronghold’s moat during its period of operation. Our spatio-temporal approach allowed mapping of the habitat changes within a medieval moat for the first time. Using data from four cores of organic deposits taken within the moat system, we describe ecological states of the moat based on subfossil Chironomidae and Ceratopogonidae assemblages. We found that over half (57%) of the identified dipteran taxa were indicative of one of the following ecological states: limnetic conditions with or without periodic water inflow, or marshy conditions. Samples representing conditions unfavourable for aquatic insects were grouped in a separate cluster. Analyses revealed that the spatio-temporal distribution of midge assemblages depended mostly on depth differences and freshwater supply from an artificial channel. Paludification and terrestrialization did not happen simultaneously across the moat system, being greatly influenced by human activity. The results presented here demonstrate the importance of a multi-aspect approach in environmental archaeology, focusing not only on the human environment, but also on the complex ecology of the past ecosystems.

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“…The remains of aquatic invertebrates are also often used in the study of archaeological sites located around water bodies. These include molluscs, water fleas (Cladocera) and non-biting midges (Chironomids), whose fossils can provide valuable information on environmental conditions (Pawłowski 2017), changes in water level (Płóciennik et al 2020;Kittel et al 2021, in press;Antczak-Orlewska et al 2022) and temperature (Płóciennik et al 2022;Antczak-Orlewska et al in press). The analysis of subfossil remains of water fleas also enables a detailed reconstruction of the stages of eutrophication of lakes attributable to settlement cultures' direct activity (Szeroczyńska 1998) or to their intentional activity in the immediate vicinity of lakes (e.g.…”

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How well multi-indicator palaeo-environmental studies meet the needs of research on settlements, on the example of the early medieval settlement complex in Szczecin: methodological problems and evaluating interpretation value

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The subject of the work is a reconstruction of environmental conditions in the Lower Oder River Valley in the early Middle Ages with use multi-proxy research. This was considered in terms of natural determinants of the development of hydrogenic habitats in the estuary section of a large lowland river, but at the beginning of a headland of natural morainic plateau known as Castle Hill in Szczecin. In a relatively small area, three different types of geochemical landscapes were distinguished that had specific functions in matter cycles, including the water cycle. The article mainly presents the results of geochemical studies for a series of biogenic deposits separated by a series of lacustrine sediments with a large admixture of mineral material. An attempt was also made to determine subfossil animal remains in the sediments.

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Summer temperature drives the lake ecosystem during the Late Weichselian and Holocene in Eastern Europe: A case study from East European Plain

Cited by 12 publications

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A deep history within a small wetland: 13 000 years of human-environment relations on the East European Plain

A deep history within a small wetland: 13 000 years of human-environment relations on the East European Plain

The spatial and temporal reconstruction of a medieval moat ecosystem

How well multi-indicator palaeo-environmental studies meet the needs of research on settlements, on the example of the early medieval settlement complex in Szczecin: methodological problems and evaluating interpretation value

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