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100			_aDietre, Benjamin _951859
245			_aSteady transformation of primeval forest into subalpine pasture during the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age 2300−1700 BC in the Silvretta Alps, Switzerland/
260			_bSage, _c2020.
300			_aVol. 30, issue 3, 2020 ( 355–368 p.).
520			_aThe question of the origin of Alpine farming and pastoral activities associated with seasonal vertical transhumance and dairy production in the Silvretta Alps (Eastern Switzerland) has recently benefitted from renewed interest. There, pastoral practises began during the Late Neolithic (2300 BC), but alpine dairy farming was directly evidenced so far only since the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age (1300–500 BC). The vegetation development, timberline shifts at 2280 m a.s.l. and environmental conditions of the subalpine Urschai Valley (Canton of Grisons, Switzerland) were reconstructed for the small (8 m2) Plan da Mattun fen based on palynological and geochemical analyses for the last six millennia. The X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyses are among the first ones performed on a European peatland in such altitudes. A high Rb/Sr ratio in the fen peat sediments revealed an increase in catchment erosion during the time when the forests of the Upper Urschai Valley were steadily diminished probably by fire and livestock impact (2300–1700 BC). These landscape openings were paralleled by increasing micro-charcoal influx values, suggesting that prehistoric people actively set fire on purpose. Simultaneously, palynological evidence for pastoralism was revealed, such as pollen from typical herbs indicating livestock trampling, and abundant spores from coprophilous fungi. Since then, vertical transhumance and pastoral activities remained responsible for the open subalpine landscape above 2000 m a.s.l., most probably also in the context of milk and dairy production since 1300 BC, which is characteristic for the European Alps until today.
700			_aReitmaier, Thomas _958843
700			_aWalser, Christoph _958844
700			_aWarnk, Theresa _958845
700			_aUnkel, Ingmar _958743
700			_aHajdas, Irka _951861
700			_aLambers, Karsten _958846
700			_aReidl, Daniel _958847
700			_aHaas, Jean Nicolas _951863
773	0		_012756 _917200 _dLondon: Sage Publication Ltd, 2019. _tHolocene/ _x09596836
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0959683619887419
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