[Palynological evidence of anthropogenic pressure: effect on pollination dynamics in the Evian area since the middle Neolithic: the pollen record of La Beunaz (971 m a.s.l., northern Alps, France)].
This paper presents a pollen diagram from La Beunaz peat-bog (southeast of Evian, Haute-Savoie, France), which provides the first detailed record of human impact on vegetation of the southern bank of Lake Geneva since the Middle Neolithic. The radiocarbon-dated pollen profile is correlated with micro-charcoal record and archaeological data. The results suggest that several phases of deforestations since 4615+75/-70 years BP occurred, in relation to human activities (agriculture, pastoralism). Tombs and vestiges of lacustrine villages indicate that the region was intensively and recurrently occupied by man during at that time.
IMEP, UMR CNRS 6116, bât. Villemin, domaine du Petit-Arbois, av. Philibert, BP 80, 13545 Aix-en-Provence cedex 04, France. frederic.guiter@univ.u-3mrs.fr
Frédéric
F
Guiter
Valérie
V
Andrieu-Ponel
Jacques-Louis
JL
de Beaulieu
Philippe
P
Ponel
Gérard
G
Nicoud
Bernard
B
Blavoux
D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis; D003710:Demography; D004777:Environment; D005580:Fossils; D005602:France; D005843:Geography; D018525:Germination; D063245:Plant Development; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena; D011058:Pollen / Q000502:physiology*
D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes