A5077492773- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Historical and Archaeological Studies
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Marine and environmental studies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Medieval European History and Architecture
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Linguistics and language evolution
- Archaeological and Geological Studies
- German Literature and Culture Studies
- Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
University of Bern
2014-2025
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research
2013-2025
Yale University
2023
Swiss Archaeology
2019-2020
University of Ferrara
2020
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar
2020
University of Coimbra
2020
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
2020
Rzeszów University
2020
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
2020
Abstract Here we present the first high-resolution continuous palaeoecological study from Greece covering Mesolithic–Neolithic transition at Limni Zazari, a small lake in western Macedonia. We how interactions between vegetation and climate might have affected introduction of agriculture to Europe ca. 8500 years ago. found that mixed deciduous oak woodlands established around once moisture availability began increase ~10,300 cal yr BP. Between 8600 8000 BP, change, causing drier conditions,...
Genetic studies of Neolithic and Bronze Age skeletons from Europe have provided evidence for strong population genetic changes at the beginning end period. To further understand implications these in Southern Central Europe, we analyze 96 ancient genomes Switzerland, Germany, Alsace region France, covering Middle/Late to Early Age. Similar previously described other parts early 3rd millennium BCE, detect an arrival ancestry related Late pastoralists Pontic-Caspian steppe Switzerland as...
In the last decade, ancient DNA research has grown rapidly and started to overcome several of its earlier limitations through Next-Generation-Sequencing (NGS). Among other advances, NGS allows direct estimation sample contamination from modern sources. First NGS-based approaches estimating measured heterozygosity. These measurements, however, could only be performed on haploid genomic regions, i.e. mitochondrial genome or male X chromosomes, but provided no measures in nuclear females with...
Anthropogenic pollen indicators in records are an established tool for reconstructing the history of human impacts on vegetation and landscapes. They also used to disentangle influence activities climatic variability ecosystems. The comprehensive anthropogenic pollen-indicator approach developed by Behre (1981) has been widely used, including beyond its original geographical scope Central Western Europe. Uncritical adoption this other areas is risky because adventives (plants introduced with...
The reconstruction of human impact is pivotal in palaeoecological studies, as humans are among the most important drivers Holocene vegetation and ecosystem change. Nevertheless, separating anthropogenic footprint on dynamics from climate other environmental factors (disturbances such fire, erosion, floods, landslides, avalanches, volcanic eruptions) a challenging still largely open issue. For this purpose, palynologists mostly rely cultural indicator pollen types related indices that consist...
Abstract The European Alps are very sensitive and vulnerable to climate change. Recent improvements in Alpine glacier length records reconstructions from annually laminated sediments of Lake Silvaplana give the opportunity investigate relationship between these two data sets climate. Two different time frames considered: last 500–1000 years as well 7400 years. First, we found good agreement archives during past millennium: mass accumulation rates biogenic silica concentration largely phase...
Abstract Natural succession trajectories of Central European forest ecosystems are poorly understood due to the absence long‐term observations and pervasive effects past human impacts on today's vegetation communities. This knowledge gap is significant given that currently expanding in Europe as a consequence global change. Annually laminated sediments were extracted from two small lowland lakes (Moossee 521 m a.s.l.; Burgäschisee 465 a.s.l.) Swiss Plateau. We combine high‐resolution...
Abstract. Since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; end ca. 19 000 cal BP) central European plant communities have been shaped by changing climatic and anthropogenic disturbances. Understanding long-term ecosystem reorganizations in response to past environmental changes is crucial draw conclusions about impact of future climate change. So far, it has difficult address post-deglaciation timing dynamics due a lack well-dated continuous sediment sequences covering entire period after LGM. Here, we...
Abstract Abrupt radiocarbon ( 14 C) excursions, or Miyake events, in sequences of measurements from calendar-dated tree-rings provide opportunities to assign absolute calendar dates undated wood samples contexts across history and prehistory. Here, we report a tree-ring C-dating study the Neolithic site Dispilio, Northern Greece, waterlogged archaeological on Lake Kastoria. Findings secure an absolute, time using 5259 BC event, with final ring 303-year-long juniper chronology dating 5140 BC....
Only a few sites in the Alps have produced archaeological finds from melting ice. To date, prehistoric four dating Neolithic period, Bronze Age, and Iron Age been recovered small ice patches (Schnidejoch, Lötschenpass, Tisenjoch, Gemsbichl/Rieserferner). Glaciers, on other hand, yielded historic frozen human remains that are not more than hundred years old (three glacier mummies 16th to 19th century military World Wars I II). Between 2003 2010, numerous were patch Schnidejoch Bernese...
The discovery of a Neolithic dolmen in Switzerland with inhumations, dating between 3500 and 3000 BCE, was an exceptional finding. To provide best conditions for subsequent studies on the archaeological remains our interdisciplinary team decided to apply 3D documentation. Depending different factors, two scanning systems four scanners photogrammetry were applied obtained data combined. Detailed excavation plans simultaneously reduction time without loss information result. A virtual...
Here, we use 7437 stable oxygen (δ 18 O) isotope ratios extracted from 192 living and relict Alpine trees to reconstruct trends extremes in European summer hydroclimate 8980 before the present 2014 Common Era. Our continuous tree-ring δ O record reveals a significant long-term drying trend over much of Holocene ( P < 0.001), which is line with orbital forcing independent evidence proxy reconstructions model simulations. Wetter conditions early-to-mid coincide African Humid Period, whereas...
Efforts to drain Lake Maliq, in the Korça Basin of eastern Albania, during 1940s and 1950s revealed waterlogged wooden structures that were excavated 1970s identified as Neolithic pile-dwellings. Fifty years later, new excavations are exposing exceptional organic preservation complex stratigraphy Dunavec site. Through a combination dendrochronological radiocarbon dating, authors provide first secure absolute dates for structures, placing early activity at site within beginning fifty-third...
The Iron Age cemetery of Münsingen in Switzerland with 220 abundantly equipped burials marked a milestone for research. horizontal spread throughout the time its occupancy laid foundation chronology system Late Age. Today, skulls 77 individuals and some postcranial bones are still preserved. aim study was to obtain information about diet, mobility social stratification individuals. Stable isotope ratios carbon, nitrogen sulphur were analysed 63 For all them, C3 plants found be staple food....
ABSTRACT High-resolution sediment chronologies with the best possible time control are essential for comparing palaeoecological studies independent high-precision climatic, archaeological or historic data in order to disentangle causes and effects of past environmental, ecological societal change. We present two varved lake sequences from Moossee Burgäschisee (Swiss Plateau) that have developed Bayesian models radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating terrestrial plant macrofossils extracted samples...