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

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Mikkelsen, Jari Hinsch Langohr, Roger Macphail, Richard I.

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. (c) 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Publication date 2007
Language Anglais
Journal information "Geoarchaeology : an international journal" - Vol. 22, no. 2, p. 155-179 (2007)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc (Hoboken)
issn 0883-6353
e-issn 1520-6548
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL
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Bibliographic reference Mikkelsen, Jari Hinsch ; Langohr, Roger ; Macphail, Richard I.. Soilscape and land-use evolution related to drift sand movements since the bronze age in Eastern Jutland, Denmark. In: Geoarchaeology : an international journal, Vol. 22, no. 2, p. 155-179 (2007)
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