Sascha Scherer

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz | JGU · Institute of Geography

The performance of Soxhlet (SOX), microwave-assisted (MAE) and accelerated-solvent extraction (ASE) in the analysis of faecal lipid biomarkers (FLB, Δ5-sterols, stanols, stanones) from archaeological soils was investigated to assess effectiveness and reproducibility of the extraction methods. Results from two Anthrosols that were analysed in six re...

The ongoing evaluation of one of the most extensively investigated settlements of the Middle Bronze Age in Baden-Württemberg provides insights into the settlement system of this period. It is only since the last two or three decades that settlements from the middle of the second millennium BCE have been found more frequently in Baden-Württemberg a...

Im Jahr 2016 wurde bei Rettungsgrabungen im Bereich eines mittelbronzezeitlichen Siedlungsareals bei Engen-Anselfingen (Lkr. Konstanz/D) ein knapp 2 kg schweres Gusskuchenfragment geborgen. Nachdem in der Frühbronzezeit in Mitteleuropa noch elaboriertere, ring- und spangenförmige Kupferbarren zirkulierten, wurde ab der Mittelbronzezeit vermehrt mit...

This paper aims to reconstruct Middle Bronze Age (MBA; 1600–1250 BCE) land use practices in the northwestern Alpine foreland (SW Germany, Hegau). We used a multi-proxy approach including the analysis of biogeochemical proxies from colluvial deposits and buried topsoils in the surroundings of the well-documented settlement site of Anselfingen and of...

Palaeoecology Bronze Age Hegau

We review and contrast three frameworks for analyzing human-land interactions in the Holocene: the traditional concept of favored and disfavored landscapes, the new concept of ResourceCultures from researchers at University of Tübingen, and complex adaptive systems, which is a well-established contemporary approach in interdisciplinary research. Fo...

Bronze Age Palaeoecology of the Hegau

This paper aims to reconstruct Middle Bronze Age (MBA) land use practices in the north-western Alpine foreland (SW Germany, Hegau). We used a multi-proxy approach including the biogeochemical proxies from colluvial deposits in the surrounding of the well-documented settlement site of Anselfingen and offsite pollen data from two peat bogs. This appr...

Colluvial deposits are considered as sedimentary archives for the reconstruction of the sedimentation and climate history, past pedogenesis and phases of land use. However, the human contribution to the formation of colluvial deposits is mainly based on assumptions derived from the local chronostratigraphy and archaeology. For this reason, there is...

What data do colluvial deposits provide to portray land use practices in Bronze Age (~2200-800 BCE?) Can small-scale movements and local impact on landscape be identified for the Bronze Age agricultural society? Are differences and shifts between allegedly favorable and unfavorable regions ascertainable? To examine these questions, the authors comb...

What data can be collected to portray particular land use practices in Bronze Age (∼2200-800 BCE)? And how can the Bronze Age agricultural society be described? Are small-scale movements and local impact on landscape as-certainable for these populations? Can differences and shifts between allegedly favorable and unfavorable regions be identified? T...