Open AccessRecords on Anthropogenic Environmental Changes in Small River Valleys in the Vicinity of Łowicz (Central Poland): Their Significance for the Reconstruction of Late Holocene Settlement Tendencies
Author(s) -
Jacek Forysiak,
Milena Obremska,
Juliusz Twardy
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
bulletin of geography. physical geography series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.149
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2300-8490
pISSN - 2080-7686
DOI - 10.2478/bgeo-2011-0001
Subject(s) - tributary , holocene , settlement (finance) , geology , archaeology , watershed , physical geography , river valley , geography , hydrology (agriculture) , cartography , geotechnical engineering , machine learning , world wide web , computer science , payment
Based on palaeobotanical analyses of organic deposits, as well as geomorphological and geological studies at four sites in various geomorphological locations in relation to tributaries of the Bzura River, the presence of traces of human activity, its intensiveness, and classification to cultural levels were analysed. A pattern of later and later settlement in areas remote from the axis of the Warsaw-Berlin streamway was observed along with the gradual introduction of settlement from river valley bottoms to watershed zones.