![]() ![]() ![]() The herds of ice-age steppe animals such as reindeer or mammoth were replaced by forest animals, e.g., deer and wild boar. The Mesolithic began with the Holocene, the present warm period, about 11,700 years ago-and the climatic change at that time also brought about reforestation, especially with pine, birch, and hazel. The researchers paid particular attention to fires used by Stone Age hunters and gatherers In their study, published in the Journal of Quaternary Science, the scientists investigate to what extent climate or anthropogenic factors played a role in the development of the vegetation landscape of the Ammer Valley over the past 11,500 years. ![]() The data were then correlated with results from the Mesolithic scattered finds from Rottenburg-Siebenlinden excavated by the Baden-Wuerttemberg Landesamt für Denkmalpflege (State Office for Monument Preservation). This is shown by environmental data generated by scientists from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment (S-HEP) at the University of Tübingen on the basis of two drill cores from the Ammer Valley. Credit: Martin EbnerĪs early as 9,500 years ago, people in Europe used slash-and-burn methods to make land usable for agriculture. Using pollen analyses, micro and macro charcoal remains, and reconstruction of the paleoclimate from sediment cores, the research team studied the landscape evolution of the Ammer Valley. ![]()
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