How Joannites' economy eradicated primeval forest and created anthroecosystems in medieval Central Europe

M Lamentowicz, K Marcisz, P Guzowski, M Gałka… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
During European states' development, various past societies utilized natural resources, but
their impact was not uniformly spatially and temporally distributed. Considerable changes …

Anthropogenic impact on the landscape of the Vishtynets Upland (Kaliningrad region, SE Baltic) in prehistory and Middle Ages: a multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental …

O Druzhinina, M Stančikaitė, L Gedminienė… - Quaternary …, 2023 - Elsevier
The paper deals with an overview of early anthropogenic impact on the landscapes of the
southeastern Baltic region and is based on the results of palaeolimnological and …

The role of Medieval road operation on cultural landscape transformation

M Słowiński, A Brauer, P Guzowski, T Związek… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Connecting pathways are essential for cultural and economic exchange. Commonly,
historians investigate the role of routes for cultural development, whereas the environmental …

Synthesis of palaeoecological data from the Polish Lowlands suggests heterogeneous patterns of old-growth forest loss after the Migration Period

S Czerwiński, K Marcisz, A Wacnik, M Lamentowicz - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Human impact on Central European forests dates back thousands of years. In this
study we reanalyzed 36 published pollen data sets with robust chronologies from Polish …

Geophysical survey at the frontier of medieval Iberia: The castles of Molina de Aragón and Atienza (Guadalajara, Spain)

G García‐Contreras, R Fry, RY Banerjea… - Archaeological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents the results of geophysical surveys conducted within two castles in
central Iberia: the fortifications of Molina de Aragón and Atienza, both located within the …

Reconstruction of the mid-to Late-Holocene history of vegetation and land-use in Petrešiūnai, north-east Lithuania: Implications from palaeobotanical and …

M Stančikaitė, A Simniškytė, Ž Skuratovič… - Quaternary …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study presents the results of multi-proxy investigations of mid-to late-Holocene
vegetation dynamics and land-use history associated with the Petrešiūnai archaeological …

Investigating the impact of anthropogenic land use on a hemiboreal lake ecosystem using carbon/nitrogen ratios and coupled-optical emission spectroscopy

N Stivrins, M Liiv, A Brown, RY Banerjea… - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic impacts on lake ecosystems have increased substantially towards the
present. However, the strength and timing in most cases are not evaluated in detail, missing …

Geoarchaeology and castlescapes: heritage management case studies in Spain and the eastern Baltic

RY Banerjea, GGC Ruiz, G Kalniņš, M Karczewski… - …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper promotes the application of geoarchaeology—joint studies using historical,
archaeological and heritage approaches—to the conservation and management practice of …

The environmental impact of cultural change: Palynological and quantitative land cover reconstructions for the last two millennia in northern Poland

A Brown, A Poska, A Pluskowski - Quaternary International, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents the first quantitative past land cover reconstructions for northern Poland
using the Landscape Reconstruction Algorithm (LRA), interpreted alongside traditional …

Was it 'terra desolata'? Conquering and colonizing the medieval Prussian wilderness in the context of climate change.

M Szal, M Kupryjanowicz, W Tylmann… - The …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs, charcoal and geochemical analyses of sediments from
Lakes Salęt and Ruskowiejskie (NE Poland) were used to reconstruct vegetation changes in …