PiereLeonFrederiks/MT_R_prehistoric_landscape_reconstruction: landscape_reconstruction

This release contains R-scripts that can be implemented in the process of reconstructing a prehistorical landscape. They were used and developed as part of the master thesis with the title "Reconstruction of a bog covered prehistoric landscape near Wanna, District of Cuxhaven".

In landscape archaeology one of the main interests of research is to study past anthropogenic landscapes. In the Ahlen-Falkenberger Moor, District of Cuxhaven, Germany, beneath layers of peat lays one of those 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 this 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.