• Böhringer See, western Lake Constance (Germany): an 8500 year record of vegetation change 

      Lechterbeck, Jutta; Rösch, Manfred (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-09)
      During the last 35 years, a number of high-resolution pollen diagrams were made for the western Lake Constance area. Up to now, 12 such records exist, most of them covering the time from the early Neolithic to the present, ...
    • Historical Spruce Abundance in Central Europe: A Combined Dendrochronological and Palynological Approach 

      Seim, Andrea; Marquer, Laurent; Bisson, Ugo; Hofmann, Jutta; Herzig, Franz; Kontic, Raymond; Lechterbeck, Jutta; Muigg, Bernhard; Neyses-Eiden, Mechthild; Rzepecki, Andreas; Rösch, Manfred; Walder, Felix; Weidemüller, Julia; Tegel, Willy (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Spruce is the most cultivated tree species in modern forestry in Central Europe, since it has the ability to grow on many soil types with profitable biomass accumulation. However, even-aged and uniform spruce forests are ...
    • Intensification of agriculture in southwestern Germany between the Bronze Age and Medieval period, based on archaeobotanical data from Baden-Württemberg 

      Tserendorj, Gegeensuvd; Marinova, Elena; Lechterbeck, Jutta; Behling, Hermann; Wick, Lucia; Fischer, Elske; Sillmann, Marion; Märkle, Tanja; Rösch, Manfred (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      A system of farming with an alternation of land use between being cultivated or left fallow as grassland (Feldgraswirtschaft) developed in southwestern Germany since the Bronze Age. It involved fallow periods, where the ...
    • Late Neolithic Agriculture in Temperate Europe — A Long-Term Experimental Approach 

      Rösch, Manfred; Biester, Harald; Bogenrieder, Arno; Eckmeier, Eileen; Ehrmann, Otto; Gerlach, Renate; Hall, Mathias; Hartkopf-Fröder, Christoph; Herrmann, Ludger; Kury, Birgit; Lechterbeck, Jutta; Schier, Wolfram; Schulz, Erhard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-02)
      Long-term slash-and-burn experiments, when compared with intensive tillage without manuring, resulted in a huge data set relating to potential crop yields, depending on soil quality, crop type, and agricultural measures. ...
    • Middle Bronze Age land use practices in the northwestern Alpine foreland – A multi-proxy study of colluvial deposits, archaeological features and peat bogs 

      Scherer, Sascha; Höpfer, Benjamin; Deckers, Katleen; Fischer, Elske; Fuchs, Markus; Kandeler, Ellen; Lechterbeck, Jutta; Lehndorff, Eva; Lomax, Johanna; Marhan, Sven; Marinova, Elena; Meister, Julia; Poll, Christian; Rahimova, Humay; Rösch, Manfred; Wroth, Kirsten; Zastrow, Julia; Knopf, Thomas; Scholten, Thomas; Kühn, Peter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06)
      This paper aims to reconstruct Middle Bronze Age (MBA; 1600–1250 BCE) land use practices in the northwestern Alpine foreland (SW Germany, Hegau). We used a multi-proxy approach including the analysis of biogeochemical ...