کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1685854 1010576 2007 5 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Radiocarbon ages of soil charcoals from the southern Alps, Ticino, Switzerland
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی مواد سطوح، پوشش‌ها و فیلم‌ها
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Radiocarbon ages of soil charcoals from the southern Alps, Ticino, Switzerland
چکیده انگلیسی

Radiocarbon dating of macroscopic charcoal is a useful tool for paleoclimatic and paleoecologic reconstructions. Here we present results of 14C dating of charcoals found in charcoal-rich soils of Ticino and the Misox Valley (southern Switzerland) which indicate that the Late Glacial and early Holocene fires coincided with warm phases in the North Atlantic region and low lake levels in the Central Europe. Late Holocene charcoals found in these soils document an earlier than believed presence of sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) in southern Switzerland. Sweet chestnut trees play a key role in Mediterranean woodlands, and for longer than two millennia have been used as a food source. Based on palynological evidence it is commonly believed that in southern Switzerland C. sativa was first introduced 2000 years ago by the Romans, who cultivated it for wood and fruit production. Our results indicate that this tree species was present on the southern slopes of the Alps ∼1500 years earlier than previously assumed, and therefore was likely introduced independently from cultivation by the Romans.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms - Volume 259, Issue 1, June 2007, Pages 398–402
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