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. Undisturbed sediments are an important source for the reconstruction of theHolocene development of valleys. Wide floodplains with relatively smallrivers in a region settled since 5500 BCE offer opportunities forinvestigations regarding climatic and anthropogenic landscape change. In thecontext of a motorway construction, excavations were carried out by theSaxonian Heritage Office in the year 2015. At one of the sites it waspossible to get a view of the sediments of the Pleise valley lessthan 100 m distance from large cross sections described by Neumeister (1964) in a former open cast mine. Archaeological finds and features, plantremains and radiocarbon dating as well as micromorphological and geochemicalinvestigations helped to decipher the age and the characteristics of theHolocene sediments: above Weichselian loamy sands a sedge peat developed insmall depressions during the Preboreal and Boreal. The sands and the sedgepeat are covered by a “black clay”, which was still the topsoil during theAtlantic period. The sedimentation of 2.3 m thick overbank fines began after4000 BCE. A depth of 1 m below the surface a medieval Slavic find layer wasexcavated. These results show that sedimentation processes in the lowerPleise valley significantly changed after 4000 BCE. It is obvious thatthe increase in silty material in the floodplain is caused by the landclearance in the Neolithic period. More than half of the silty overbankfines were deposited before the Middle Ages began.

Holocene floodplain evolution in a central European loess landscape – geoarchaeological investigations of the lower Pleiße valley in NW Saxony