IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 2017: Changing Forests: Forest Management in Long Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, I

Organiser:	Bernhard Muigg, Institut für Forstwissenschaften, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Moderator/Chair:	David Wallace-Hare, Department of Classics, University of Toronto
Paper 2017-a	Dendroarchaeology and Forests: Detecting Early Medieval Forest Management Systems from Growth Patterns (Language: English) Bernhard Muigg, Institut für Forstwissenschaften, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Economics - Rural, Technology
Paper 2017-b	The Potential of Pollen-Based Vegetation Modelling to Assess Regional and Local Forest Cover / Composition / Diversity and Management in the Past: A Case Study in Southern Sweden (Language: English) Laurent Marquer, Terrestrial Palaeoclimates Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie Mainz Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Economics - Rural, Geography and Settlement Studies
Abstract	Forests often represented border areas between cultivated land and wilderness and typically contained key resources the ownership of which was hotly contested and controlled. As hubs of changing and contested resources, forests expanded, contracted, and disappeared for a variety of reasons in the premodern age. The Changing Forests session series provides a cross-disciplinary approach examining forest use in a less studied but crucially important period for understanding forest dynamics, Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (3rd-10th century CE). Session I examines ways of assessing the growth of Late Antique and Early Medieval forests.