scholarly journals Palynological investigations at the Late Bronze–Early Iron Age lakeshore settlement of Luokesa 1 (Moletai District, Lithuania): a contribution to the Middle-Late Holocene vegetation history of the south-eastern Baltic regions

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annekäthi Heitz-Weniger
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Vegetation History ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
The South ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The South ◽  
Eastern Baltic

scholarly journals Submarginal drumlin formation and late Holocene history of Fláajökull, southeast Iceland

2016 ◽  
Vol 57 (72) ◽  
pp. 128-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sverrir Aðalsteinn Jónsson ◽  
Ívar Örn Benediktsson ◽  
Ólafur Ingólfsson ◽  
Anders Schomacker ◽  
Helga Lucia Bergsdóttir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Holocene ◽  
Abrupt Change ◽  
Sedimentary Structure ◽  
The South ◽  
Terminal Position ◽  
Glacial Retreat ◽  
Outlet Glacier ◽  
Glacier Forefield ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
History Of

ABSTRACTFláajökull is a non-surging outlet glacier draining the south-eastern part of the Vatnajökull, southeast Iceland. Fláajökull was stationary or advanced slightly between 1966 and 1995 and formed a prominent end moraine. Glacial retreat since then has revealed a cluster of 15 drumlins. This study focuses on the morphology and sedimentology of the drumlins. They are 100–600 m long, 40–130 m wide, and have cores of glaciofluvial sediment or till. The drumlins are draped by ~1 m thick, massive subglacial traction till. The glacier forefield is characterized by a number of arcuate and saw-tooth, terminal and recessional moraine ridges, overridden moraines with fluted surfaces, and glaciofluvial outwash. Some of the drumlins extend towards the 1995 end moraine but terminate abruptly at the moraine and are not observed in front of it. This suggests that they were formed sub-marginally during the 1966–1995 terminal position. The sedimentary structure of the drumlins is best explained by the sticky spot model. Dating and dendrochronological analyses of birch logs found on the surface of one of the drumlins indicate that the valley was forested about 2100 calendar year BP, after which the glacier started to reform, possibly due to an abrupt change in climate.

scholarly journals The Early Iron Age in South Italy

1907 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 284-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Peet
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Central Italy ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
The South ◽  
Po Valley ◽  
South Italy ◽  
History Of

To theorize with regard to the development of South Italy in prehistoric times is at once easy and dangerous: easy because the ascertained facts to be accounted for are few, dangerous because the chance of new and disconcerting discoveries is greatest in an unexplored territory. At the same time the theory which is at present most widely held with regard to the early iron age in South Italy is not entirely convincing. Until recently the history of South Italy in pre-Roman times was almost a complete blank, no explanation being possible because there were no facts to be explained. But the discoveries at Torre del Mordillo, Spezzano Calabrese, Piedimonte d'Alife, Cuma, Suessola, and other places have lately provided a certain basis for construction. Very few attempts, however, have been made to supply the explanation of these data; indeed archaeologists were already well employed upon the far more copious material of Northern and Central Italy. But in 1899 interest in the south of the Peninsula was heightened by Quagliati's discovery of a terramara at Tarentum. To anyone who has examined the immense mass of material from this site there can be no particle of doubt that the terramara of Scoglio del Tonno at Tarentum is exactly identical in type with the terremare of the Po valley.

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