Dissertation Research: Development of the Cultural Landscape Around Lough Gur, Ireland

论文研究：爱尔兰古尔湖周边文化景观的发展

• 批准号: 8913256
• 负责人: Herbert Wright
• 金额: $ 0.76万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-02-01 至 1991-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8913256&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Development; Cultural; Landscape

This research will investigate the development of the cultural landscape around Lough Gur, Co. Limerick, Ireland. It will be primarily based on analysis of lake sediments and archaeological sites from the Neolithic the Medieval period. These materials are particularly well suited for testing several hypotheses concerning vegetational and erosional changes resulting from human impact on the environment through time. The overall hypothesis states that Post-Boreal changes in the vegetation accompanied by erosion reflect local prehistoric and historic farming. Subsidiary hypotheses are: That the locality of vegetation disturbance in the lake catchment changes through time and can be traced by paleomagnetic analysis of the lake sediment. That the elm population was primarily affected by tree cutting during the early colonization of lighter soils by humans. That the relative frequency of algae in the sediment corresponds to fluctuations in lake catchment settlements. And that the elm decline is an outcome of disease and is not associated with erosion.

本研究将探讨爱尔兰利默里克湖周边文化景观的发展。它将主要基于对新石器时代、中世纪时期的湖泊沉积物和考古遗址的分析。这些材料特别适合于测试几个假设，这些假设是关于随着时间的推移人类对环境的影响而导致的植被和侵蚀变化。总的假设是，伴随着侵蚀的北半球后植被的变化反映了当地史前和历史上的农业。辅助假设是：湖泊流域内植被扰动的位置随时间变化，并可通过湖泊沉积物的古地磁分析来追踪。榆树种群主要是在人类早期殖民较轻土壤的过程中受到砍伐树木的影响。沉积物中藻类的相对频率与湖泊集水区聚落的波动相对应。榆树的衰退是疾病的结果，与侵蚀无关。