Quantitative reconstruction of climatic variations during the Bronze and early Iron ages based on pollen and lake-level data in the NW Alps, France

• Published in: Quaternary International
• Main Authors: Magny, Michel, Peyron, Odile, Gauthier, Emilie, Rouèche, Y., Bordon, A., Billaud, Yves, Chapron, Emmanuel, Marguet, A., Petrequin, P., Vannière, Boris
• Other Authors: Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249) (LCE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC), Département des Recherches Archéologiques Subaquatiques et Sous-Marines Marseille (DRASSM), Ministère de la Culture (MC), Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans (ISTO), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Université de Tours (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich), French CNRS (Programme Environnement et Climats du Passé) and by the EU (ACCROTELM project, under the leadership of F. Chambers)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2009
• Subjects: [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces; environment; [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes; Jura; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://insu.hal.science/insu-00446344; https://insu.hal.science/insu-00446344/document; https://insu.hal.science/insu-00446344/file/Magny-2009.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2008.03.011

International audience Vegetation and lake-level data from the archaeological site of Tresserve, on the eastern shore of Lake Le Bourget (Savoie, France), are used to provide quantitative estimates of climatic variables over the period 4000-2300 cal BP in the northern French Pre-Alps, and to examine...