Landscape archaeological investigations near Wanna, district Cuxhaven, Germany - main

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In the Ahlen-Falkenberger Moor, District of Cuxhaven beneath layers of peat lays a conserved prehistoric landscapes. For a long time it was assumed that due to its boggy environment the terrain was uninhabited. The ongoing severe peat shrinkage initially caused by the cultivation in the early 20th century revealed megalithic tombs in the bog. Numerous sites of the Funnel Beaker Culture such as megalithic tombs as well as settlements and flat graves can be documented in the surrounding areas. It is the aim of the authors thesis as part of the project "Preserved in the bog" at the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research to reconstruct the Neolithic landscape based on a combination of archaeological, botanical and geological methods. The sediment descriptions of 215 auger corings provided the groundwork for the reconstruction of the prehistoric landscape. This data set was created as part of the drilling work for the author's master thesis.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.953788
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.953792
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Provenance
Creator Frederiks, Pière Leon ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Contributor Niedersächsisches Institut für historische Küstenforschung, Wilhelmshaven
Publication Year 2023
Funding Reference Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur https://doi.org/10.13039/501100010570 Crossref Funder ID Pro*Niedersachsen Preserved in the bog - relics of prehistoric settlement landscapes in the Elbe-Weser triangle
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Resource Type Dataset
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Size 1935 data points
Discipline Ancient Cultures; Archaeology; Humanities
Spatial Coverage (8.784 LON, 53.696 LAT); Wanna, Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-07-23T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-11-29T00:00:00Z