dc.contributor.author
Demske, Dieter
dc.contributor.author
Tarasov, Pavel E.
dc.contributor.author
Leipe, Christian
dc.contributor.author
Kotlia, Bahadur S.
dc.contributor.author
Joshi, Lalit M.
dc.contributor.author
Long, Tengwen
dc.date.accessioned
2017-10-01
dc.date.available
2017-12-01T12:09:50.457Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/14541
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-18733
dc.description.abstract
This study is focused on a 3.55-m-long sediment core retrieved from Badanital
(i.e. the BT core) in 2008. Badanital (30°29′50″N, 78°55′26″E, 2083 m a.s.l.)
is a small lake located in the upper catchment area of the Ganges in Garhwal
Himalaya, northern India. The lake and the regional broad-leaved semi-
evergreen forests are under the influence of the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM)
and westerly associated cyclones. Palynological investigation of the BT core
revealed past vegetation changes reflecting both climate and human impact
during the last 4600 years. Maximum spread of oaks occurred during c. AD
550–1100 and c. AD 1400–1630, that is, the intervals which partly overlap with
the ‘Medieval Warm Period’ and the ‘Little Ice Age’, respectively. Three
intervals of decreased oak pollen percentages are attributed to (1)
continuously drier and cooler climatic conditions and fire activity (c.
2600–500 BC), (2) severe reduction in oak forests followed by secondary
succession of alder woods (c. AD 1150–1270) and (3) pre-modern settlement
activities since the British imperial occupation (after c. AD 1700). We argue
that the high percentages (i.e. up to 28%) of Humulus/Cannabis type and
Cannabis type pollen point to intense local retting of hemp c. 500 BC–AD 1050.
Based on our age model, Cannabis fibre production at Badanital is
contemporaneous with archaeological records of ancient hemp products from
different parts of Eurasia suggesting possible linkages to early trade and
knowledge exchange routes connecting India and the Himalaya with Central and
East Asia and possibly Europe.
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dc.rights.uri
http://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-green-route-%E2%80%93-open-access-archiving-policy
dc.subject
non-pollen palynomorphs
dc.subject
retting of hemp
dc.subject.ddc
500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie
dc.title
Record of vegetation, climate change, human impact and retting of hemp in
Garhwal Himalaya (India) during the past 4600 years
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation
The Holocene. - 26 (2016), 10, S. 1661-1675
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1177/0959683616650267
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
http://hol.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/06/03/0959683616650267
refubium.affiliation
Geowissenschaften
de
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FUDOCS_document_000000024764
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no
refubium.mycore.derivateId
FUDOCS_derivate_000000006945
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access