Soil Chemistry to Support Old Map Analysis of the Built-up Area of an Abandoned Settlement. Case Study from the Romanian Banat

Václav Fanta,Markéta Šantrůčková,Jan Horák

doi:10.24916/iansa.2020.1.8

Abstract

Soil Chemistry to Support Old Map Analysis of the Built-up Area of an Abandoned Settlement. Case Study from the Romanian Banat

Highlights

Landscape studies focused on land use and land cover changes have a tradition in all parts of Europe (Jepsen et al, 2015; Kuemmerle et al, 2016), as well as in selected regions and land categories (Forejt et al, 2017; Skaloš et al, 2011; Šantrůčková et al, 2015; Wulf et al, 2016)
The Romanian mountains seem to be a stable area in macroscopic analyses on a European scale (Jepsen et al, 2015; Kuemmerle et al, 2016), but important settlement and land use/land cover changes have occurred there since the nineteenth century (Cepraga, 2014; Romportl et al, 2014; Šantrůčková, Fanta, 2014; Kovář et al, 2019)
These changes were connected with the resettlement of Romanian mountains at the beginning of the nineteenth century, which caused an intensification of agriculture and

Summary

Introduction

The landscape is still changing, and many authors (Antrop, 2005; Dossche et al, 2016; Wulf et al, 2016) have stressed that landscape changes in Europe have accelerated from the end of the 18th century. The Romanian mountains seem to be a stable area in macroscopic analyses on a European scale (Jepsen et al, 2015; Kuemmerle et al, 2016), but important settlement and land use/land cover changes have occurred there since the nineteenth century (Cepraga, 2014; Romportl et al, 2014; Šantrůčková, Fanta, 2014; Kovář et al, 2019). These changes were connected with the resettlement of Romanian mountains at the beginning of the nineteenth century, which caused an intensification of agriculture and. We see the topic from another side: a lack of archaeological and paleoenvironmental methods being combined with purely historical topics – and with medieval and modern periods (at least in the central European area, where environmental archaeology researches prehistoric times)

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