Vorträge - Universität Salzburg

Abstracts Primus Conventus Austriacus Archaeometriae - MMIX
Settlement activities and woodland use in the Montafon during
the Bronze Age
Anton Stefan Schwarz 1 , Rüdiger Krause 2 & Klaus Oeggl 1
1
Institute of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Sternwartestrasse 15, A-6020 Innsbruck, +43-(0)512-507-5973,
Stefan.Schwarz@uibk.ac.at
2
Institute of Archaeology, University of Frankfurt, Grüneburgplatz 1, D-60629 Frankfurt am Main
This archaeobotanical case study from the Montafon (Vorarlberg, Austria) deals with
subsistence strategies and woodland uses during the Bronze Age and was conducted within
the course of the large-scale project HiMAT. In the vicinity of an already known and well
investigated Bronze aged fortified hilltop settlement another Bronze aged dwelling place was
excavated from 2005 to 2007. Archaeobotanical and anthracological analyses were conducted
on 18 systematically taken soil samples which date into the Early Bronze Age and into the
Middle Bronze Age. The results reveal the anthropogenic change of the local woodland over
time: The Early Bronze Age dominance of a spruce (Picea) forest mixed with beech (Fagus)
and maple (Acer) shifted into a more open spruce (Picea) dominated mixed forest with high
amounts of pioneers in the Middle Bronze Age. The presence of birch (Betula), hazel
(Corylus avellana), alder (Alnus) and rowan (Sorbus) indicate a previous and constant
anthropogenic opening of the forest. The complementary palynological studies from a nearby
mire and the archaeobotanical results from the fortified hilltop settlement reaffirm an
immense Bronze aged demand on farming land and timber.
Geochemische Charakterisierung von Kupfererzen aus der
Mitterbergregion und ihre Bedeutung als Rohstoffquelle in prähistorischer
Zeit
Joachim Lutz, Ernst Pernicka & Robert Pils
Curt-Engelhorn-Zentrum Archäometrie, D6.3, D-68159 Mannheim, +49-(0)621-2938949, joachim.lutz@cezarchaeometrie.de
Die Kupfererzvorkommen der Mitterbergregion wurden in prähistorischer Zeit intensiv
abgebaut, wie zahlreiche alte Bergbauspuren und Verhüttungsplätze belegen. In letzter Zeit
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