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View article: Holocene overbank sedimentation in Central Europe between natural and human drivers – the Weiße Elster River (Central Germany)
Holocene overbank sedimentation in Central Europe between natural and human drivers – the Weiße Elster River (Central Germany) Open
Up to several meters thick fine-grained Holocene overbank deposits are ubiquitously found in most Western and Central European lowland floodplains. However, the interplay of different possible causes for their formation are not well unders…
View article: Biomolecular evidence for changing millet reliance in Late Bronze Age central Germany
Biomolecular evidence for changing millet reliance in Late Bronze Age central Germany Open
The Bronze Age of Central Europe was a period of major social, economic, political and ideological change. The arrival of millet is often seen as part of wider Bronze Age connectivity, yet understanding of the subsistence regimes underpinn…
View article: Holocene overbank sedimentation in Central Europe between natural and human drivers - The Weiße Elster River (Central Germany)
Holocene overbank sedimentation in Central Europe between natural and human drivers - The Weiße Elster River (Central Germany) Open
Up to several meters thick fine-grained Holocene overbank deposits are ubiquitously found in most Western and Central European lowland floodplains. However, despite their large importance for the geomorphological and geoecological floodpla…
View article: Large-scale investigations of Neolithic settlement dynamics in Central Germany based on machine learning analysis: A case study from the Weiße Elster river catchment
Large-scale investigations of Neolithic settlement dynamics in Central Germany based on machine learning analysis: A case study from the Weiße Elster river catchment Open
The paper investigates potentials and challenges during the interpretation of prehistoric settlement dynamics based on large archaeological datasets. Exemplarily, this is carried out using a database of 1365 Neolithic sites in the Weiße El…
View article: Holocene silt-clay overbank sedimentation between climate change and human activitiy within the fragile loess-covered Weiße Elster catchment in Central Germany
Holocene silt-clay overbank sedimentation between climate change and human activitiy within the fragile loess-covered Weiße Elster catchment in Central Germany Open
<p>The role of climatic or human forcing for Holocene silt-clay overbank sedimentation in Central Europe has been debated for decades. To date, former studies were often limited by rather low chronological resolutions of the fluvial …
View article: The fluvial architecture of buried floodplain sediments of the Weiße Elster River (Germany) revealed by a novel method combination of drill cores with two‐dimensional and spatially resolved geophysical measurements
The fluvial architecture of buried floodplain sediments of the Weiße Elster River (Germany) revealed by a novel method combination of drill cores with two‐dimensional and spatially resolved geophysical measurements Open
The complex and non‐linear fluvial river dynamics are characterized by repeated periods of fluvial erosion and re‐deposition in different parts of the floodplain. Understanding the fluvial architecture (i.e. the three‐dimensional arrangeme…
View article: High-Resolution Direct Push Sensing in Wetland Geoarchaeology—First Traces of Off-Site Construction Activities at the Fossa Carolina
High-Resolution Direct Push Sensing in Wetland Geoarchaeology—First Traces of Off-Site Construction Activities at the Fossa Carolina Open
Wetland environments, with their excellent conservation conditions, provide geoarchaeological archives of past human activities. However, the subsurface soil is difficult to access due to high groundwater tables, unstable sediments, and th…
View article: Overbank silt-clay deposition and intensive Neolithic land use in a Central European catchment – Coupled or decoupled?
Overbank silt-clay deposition and intensive Neolithic land use in a Central European catchment – Coupled or decoupled? Open
Hydro-sedimentary processes such as soil erosion, sediment transport, deposition, and re-deposition influence the environmental evolution of floodplains, especially in loess-covered catchments. Holocene floodplain deposits are thus a sourc…
View article: A novel combination of core drillings with 2D and 3D geophysical measurements helps to decipher the fluvial architecture of buried floodplain sediments of the Wei&#223;e Elster River (Central Germany)
A novel combination of core drillings with 2D and 3D geophysical measurements helps to decipher the fluvial architecture of buried floodplain sediments of the Weiße Elster River (Central Germany) Open
<p>Fluvial sediments are valuable archives of late Quaternary landscape evolution, paleoenvironmental changes and human-environmental interactions. However, given their complex and non-linear character their correct interpretation re…
View article: Sediment budgeting of short‐term backfilling processes: The erosional collapse of a Carolingian canal construction
Sediment budgeting of short‐term backfilling processes: The erosional collapse of a Carolingian canal construction Open
Sediment budgeting concepts serve as quantification tools to decipher the erosion and accumulation processes within a catchment and help to understand these relocation processes through time. While sediment budgets are widely used in geomo…
View article: 792 or 793? Charlemagne’s canal project: craft, nature and memory
792 or 793? Charlemagne’s canal project: craft, nature and memory Open
In autumn 793, Charlemagne visited the fossatum magnum (the ‘big ditch’ or canal) between the Rhine and Danube. Excavations, dendrochronology and a re‐reading of Carolingian Annals shed new light on the chronology and setting of this canal…
View article: 3D-Modelling of Charlemagne’s Summit Canal (Southern Germany)—Merging Remote Sensing and Geoarchaeological Subsurface Data
3D-Modelling of Charlemagne’s Summit Canal (Southern Germany)—Merging Remote Sensing and Geoarchaeological Subsurface Data Open
The Early Medieval Fossa Carolina is the first hydro-engineering construction that bridges the Central European Watershed. The canal was built in 792/793 AD on order of Charlemagne and should connect the drainage systems of the Rhine-Main …