Records on Anthropogenic Environmental Changes in Small River Valleys in the Vicinity of Łowicz (Central Poland): Their Significance for the Reconstruction of Late Holocene Settlement Tendencies

Abstract

Based on palaeobotanical analyses of organic deposits, as well as geomorphological and geological studies at four sites in various geomorphological locations in relation to tributaries of the Bzura River, the presence of traces of human activity, its intensiveness, and classification to cultural levels were analysed. A pattern of later and later settlement in areas remote from the axis of the Warsaw–Berlin streamway was observed along with the gradual introduction of settlement from river valley bottoms to watershed zones.