Paleoecological Archives Unraveling the Early Land-Use History at the Emergence of the Bronze Age Settlement of Bergamo (Italian Alps)
Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 276 (2020) 104205 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/revpalbo Paleoecological archives unraveling the early land-use history at the emergence of the Bronze Age settlement of Bergamo (Italian Alps) Cesare Ravazzi a,⁎, Roberta Pini a, Mattia De Amicis b, Lorenzo Castellano c, Roberto Comolli b, Davide Abu El Khair b, Giulia Furlanetto b, Diego Marsetti d,RenataPeregoa a Research Group on Vegetation, Climate and Human Stratigraphy, Lab. of Palynology and Palaeoecology, CNR-IGAG, Piazza della Scienza 1, 20126 Milano,Italy b Dept. of Environmental and Earth Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 1, 20126 Milano, Italy c New York University, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, East 84th Street, New York, USA d ECOGEO srl, via Fratelli Calvi 2, 24122 Bergamo, Italy article info abstract Article history: The hilltop town of Bergamo, at the southern fringe of the Italian Alps, represents a typical example of the stepped Received 12 February 2020 emergence of a prehistoric settlement developing into a proto-historic urban center in the Iron Age. We present Accepted 28 February 2020 here unprecedented multidisciplinary evidence based on several near-site stratigraphies, supported by a robust Available online 02 March 2020 radiocarbon chronology and by a continuous fine-resolution sedimentary and paleoecological record from a pond used for livestock watering, which was intercepted by drilling underneath the modern Catholic Cathedral. The Keywords: obtained chronostratigraphy documents the development of arable and fallow land including cereals, legumes Vegetation history Cultural landscape and livestock husbandry starting as early as 3355 yrs.
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