Analysis of life conditions, settlement dynamics and human nutrition in medieval rural Brandenburg settlements

该项目旨在分别调查勃兰登堡褐煤矿区和柏林舍恩-费尔德机场所在地中世纪晚期聚落的生活状况。科学结果将是考古项目--勃兰登堡中世纪晚期土地整理和乡村聚落发展--在这些地方进行的综合评估的一部分。我们希望对地区属性和特征进行详细的分析和描述。此外，该项目将通过超区域比较，为德国和中欧的历史环境研究做出坚实的贡献。特别是将使用花粉分析来深入了解植被和聚落动态，并将使用植物学和动物学发现的评估来获得更多关于营养和经济的信息。将应用人类学方法调查人口的健康、来源和结构。结果将被放在历史的背景下。对地球和地貌发展的地质考古调查，以及根据气候条件和景观管理对水文和要素预算的分析，对中年农村的整体生活状况做出了重要贡献。全面调查的最终结果将是基于一个独特的数据库，通过应用跨学科方法编制的独特数据库重建中世纪农村生活。

The project aims at the investigation of the life conditions in late medieval settlements lo-cated in the Brandenburg brown coal pit mining area and the location of the Berlin Schöne-feld airport, respectively.The scientific results will be part of a comprehensive evaluation in connection with the re-search done in these places by an archaeological project The late medieval land consolida-tion and the development of rural settlements in Brandenburg GZ: SCHO 838/5-1, 2).We expect a detailed analysis and description of regional attributes and characteristics. In addition the project will aim at a solid contribution to the historical environmental research in Germany and Central Europe through supra regional comparisons.In particular pollen analysis will be used to get insight into vegetation and settlement dynam-ics and the evaluation of botanical and zoological finds will be used to get more information on nutrition and economy. Health, origin and structure of the population will be investigated by applying anthropological methods. The results will be folded into the historical context. Geoarchaeological investigation of earth and relief developments as well as the analysis of the hydrologic and element budget in dependence of the climate conditions and landscape management provides an important contribution to the overall rural life conditions in middle ages.Final result of the overall investigation will be the reconstruction of medieval rural life based on a unique database compiled by applying interdisciplinary methods.