3D-Landscape Modeling and Environmental Reconstruction

Authors:
Andreas Bauerochse, Andreas Niemuth

Book:
Proceedings of the 14th International Peat Congress

Venue:
Stockholm

Keywords:
iron-age, landscape-modelling, northwest-germany, peatland

Documentfile:
Bauerochse 2012: 3D-Landscape Modeling and Environmental Reconstruction

Summary:

Theme I.  Inventory, stratigraphy and conservation of mires and peatlands

SUMMARY

In accordance with archaeological investigations conducted after the discovery of an Iron Age bog body, a 3D-landscape model of the Grosses Moor near Uchte (Lower Saxony, Germany) was developed. It shows the extension of the peatland during the middle of the first millenium BC. More than 5000 soil profiles taken during the last 60 years were stratigraphically synchronized and used for the reconstruction of the Iron Age landscape.