The formation of the cultural landscape of the Karst in the Bronze Age
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https://doi.org/10.3986/AV.77.11Keywords:
Karst, Bronze Age, cultural landscape, pastoralism, dolines, airborne laser scanning, sedimentationAbstract
The paper examines the formation of the Bronze Age cultural landscape in the Karst region. We introduce new data on the long-term history of the Karst landscape by combining two complementary sources. First, we analyse data from sediment infills in dolines, which provide a diachronic view of past landscape development, and confront these with data from airborne laser scanning. The focus is on the transformation episode in the second and third millennia BCE, when extensive clearing and the formation of a cultural landscape centred on livestock herding took place. The next major transformation occurred only in the last millennium, particularly after 1500 CE.
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