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Goettingen, Germany

Ormskirk, UK

Maldives, Maldives

Poznan, Poland

Portsmouth, UK

A high-resolution Late Pleistocene and Middle to Late Holocene pollen profile of regional significance is presented. The coring site is located in a mire between two lakes. Ober- and Unter-?ckersee, in Brandenburg, north-eastern Germany. The study was carried out in an archaeological context. It provides information about the history of vegetation, climate and human impact in the ?cker river valley and the surrounding hills, the Uckerm?rker H?gelland. Hence, it is an important contribution for the reconstruction of the past vegetation of this area of Brandenburg.

In connection with the excavation of an early Iran Age settlement on the Neuenhagener Oderinsel (Niederes Oderbruch), a hIgh-resolution pollen diagram has been created wich covers the Late Neolthic through the Medieval periods. The diagram shows clearly, in addition to partly natural change in the development of the forest, the influence of man on the vegetation. Three prehistoric settlement phases can be recognised (Late Neolithic, Late Bronze Age/pre-Roman Iron Age, Roman Iran Age), for which pollen-analytic evidence provides proof of farming and stock breeding.

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Mysore, Karnataka, India