MARINEGEOLOGY & GLACIOLOGY

From forgotten outskirts to royal hunting ground – NE Zealand during the last 3,000 yearsd gennem de sidste 3000 år

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The overall aim of the project is to elucidate the landscape and settlement development in northeast Zealand over the last 3,000 years by means of geological, archaeological and historical-geographical methods. The geological part of the project includes palaeoecological studies of sediment cores extracted from two lakes in the area in order to elucidate: i. Changes in vegetation and land-use during the last three millennia (as revealed by pollen and macrofossil analyses), ii. Changes in nutritional status of the lakes (as revealed by pigment and diatom analyses), and iii. Changes in climate (as revealed by stable isotope analyses).

Institutions involved in the project:
GEUS; Hørsholm Egns Museum; SAXO Institute-Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Copenhagen