[HTML][HTML] Do small landforms have large effects? A review on the legacies of pre-industrial charcoal burning

T Raab, A Raab, A Bonhage, A Schneider, F Hirsch… - Geomorphology, 2022 - Elsevier
Relict charcoal hearths (RCHs) are small, anthropogenic landforms resulting from past
charcoal burning and reaching significant land coverage in pre-industrial mining areas. We …

Historical soil erosion by water in Germany: scales and archives, chronology, research perspectives

S Dreibrodt, C Lubos, B Terhorst, B Damm… - Quaternary …, 2010 - Elsevier
The published record of historical soil erosion by water in Germany as deduced from dated
slope deposits (n= 306), alluvial sediments (n= 120) and lake sediments is summarized in …

Consistency of plant-specific n-alkane patterns in plaggen ecosystems: A review

FMSA Kirkels, B Jansen, K Kalbitz - The Holocene, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Plaggen soils, formed by various vegetational inputs during century-long plaggen (ie sod)
application, comprise remarkably stable organic matter. Source identification could …

Holocene aeolian dynamics in the E uropean sand‐belt as indicated by geochronological data

JF Tolksdorf, K Kaiser - Boreas, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Aeolian sands are widespread in the E uropean sand‐belt. While there is a consensus
about the timing of increased aeolian activity and, in contrast, of surface stabilization during …

The effects of micro-habitats and grazing intensity on the vegetation of burial mounds in the Kazakh steppes

B Deák, C Tölgyesi, A Kelemen, Z Bátori… - Plant Ecology & …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Burial mounds (kurgans) of Eurasian steppes are man-made habitat islands
that have the potential to harbour rich plant diversity due to micro-habitats associated with …

Combining pollen and charcoal: evaluating Holocene vegetation composition and dynamics

O Nelle, S Dreibrodt, Y Dannath - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2010 - Elsevier
Pollen analysis reveals vegetation change on a local and regional level over (ideally)
continuous time spans but with complications when it comes to the reconstruction of spatially …

Are mid-latitude slopes sensitive to climatic oscillations? Implications from an Early Holocene sequence of slope deposits and buried soils from eastern Germany

S Dreibrodt, J Lomax, O Nelle, C Lubos, P Fischer… - Geomorphology, 2010 - Elsevier
On a straight slope within the lake catchment of Kleiner Tornowsee (Brandenburg, Germany)
a sequence of slope sediments has been deposited during the Late Glacial, the Early …

[HTML][HTML] Middle Bronze Age land use practices in the northwestern Alpine foreland–a multi-proxy study of colluvial deposits, archaeological features and peat bogs

S Scherer, B Höpfer, K Deckers, E Fischer, M Fuchs… - Soil, 2021 - soil.copernicus.org
This paper aims to reconstruct Middle Bronze Age (MBA; 1600–1250 BCE) land use
practices in the northwestern Alpine foreland (SW Germany, Hegau). We used a multi-proxy …

Linking forest cover, soil erosion and mire hydrology to late-Holocene human activity and climate in NW Spain

N Silva-Sánchez, A Martínez Cortizas… - The …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Forest clearance is one of the main drivers of soil erosion and hydrological changes in
mires, although climate may also play a significant role. Because of the wide range of factors …

What's in a colluvial deposit? Perspectives from archaeopedology

S Scherer, K Deckers, J Dietel, M Fuchs, J Henkner… - Catena, 2021 - Elsevier
Colluvial deposits are considered as sedimentary archives for the reconstruction of the
sedimentation and climate history, past pedogenesis and phases of land use. However, the …