Scales of transformations-Modelling settlement and land-use dynamics in late antique and early medieval Basel, Switzerland.

ABSTRACT: Multicomponent environmental models have increasingly found their way into archaeological research. Mostly, these models aim to understand human patterns as a result of past climatic and environmental conditions over long-term periods. However, major limitations are the low spatial and temporal resolution of the environmental data, and hence the rather static model output. Particular challenges are thus the number of chosen variables, the comprehensiveness of the explanatory parameters, and the integration of socio-cultural decision-making into the model. Here, we present a novel approach to generate annually resolved landcover variability using a broad variety of climatic, geological, hydrological, topographical, and dendrochronological data composites (Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI

SUBMITTER: Kempf M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9891536 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature