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The Age and Origin of the Gelderse IJssel
Historic trading cities are located on the Gelderse IJssel and flourished in the late Middle Ages. Little is known about this river in the early Middle Ages and before, and there is considerable debate on the age and origin of the Gelderse IJssel as a Rhine distributary. A small river draining the surrounding Pleistocene uplands must have been present in the IJssel valley during most of the Holocene, but very diverse opinions exist as to when this local river became connected to the Rhine system (and thereby to a vast hinterland), and whether this was human induced or a natural process. We collected new AMS radiocarbon evidence on the timing of beginning overbank sedimentation along the lower reach of the Gelderse IJssel. Our data indicate onset of overbank sedimentation at about 950 AD in this reach. We attribute this environmental change to the establishment of a connection between the precursor of the IJssel and the Rhine system by avulsion. Analysis of previous conventional radiocarbon dates from the upper IJssel floodplain yields that this avulsion may have started ~600 AD. Our results contradict earlier suppositions, based on interpretation of archaeological data and historical accounts, that the Gelderse IJssel is much older and originated as a canal, dug under supervision of the Roman general DrususThe Gelderse IJssel is the third major distributary of the Rhine in the Netherlands and diverts on average similar to 15% of the Rhine discharge northward. Historic trading cities are located on the Gelderse IJssel and flourished in the late Middle Ages. Little is known about this river in the early Middle Ages and before, and there is considerable debate on the age and origin of the Gelderse IJssel as a Rhine distributary. A small river draining the surrounding Pleistocene uplands must have been present in the IJssel valley during most of the Holocene, but very diverse opinions exist as to when this local river became connected to the Rhine system (and thereby to a vast hinterland), and whether this was human induced or a natural process. We collected new AMS radiocarbon evidence on the timing of beginning overbank sedimentation along the lower reach of the Gelderse IJssel. Our data indicate onset of overbank sedimentation at about 950 AD in this reach. We attribute this environmental change to the establishment of a connection between the precursor of the IJssel and the Rhine system by avulsion. Analysis of previous conventional radiocarbon dates from the upper IJssel floodplain yields that this avulsion may have started similar to 600 AD. Our results contradict earlier suppositions, based on interpretation of archaeological data and historical accounts, that the Gelderse IJssel is much older and originated as a canal, dug under supervision of the Roman general Drusus
Verdronken dekzandgronden in Zuidelijk Flevoland (archeologische opgraving `A27-Hoge Vaart'); een interdisciplinaire studie naar de veranderingen van bodem en landschap in het Mesolithicum en Vroeg-Neolithicum
Bij een archeologische opgraving in Zuidelijk Flevoland is de bodemvorming en de vegetatieontwikkeling van een dekzandrug langs een diepe holocene stroomgeul onderzocht. Bodem en vegetatie kwamen in de loop van het Atlanticum onder sterke invloed van het grondwater te staan door de snel rijzende zeespiegel. Het landschap veranderde in een zoetwatergetijdengebied met sterk fluctuerende waterstanden. De oorspronkelijke bruine bosgrond degradeerde hierdoor tot een sterk verzuurde en hydromorfe zandgrond. Tussen 6000 en 5500 BP steeg de gemiddelde grondwaterstand in de dekzandrug met een snelheid van minstens 15 cm per eeuw. Rond 5500 BP werd de dekzandrug volledig overgroeid door rietveen
Palaeo-ecologisch onderzoek aan een bodemprofiel uit de locatie Almere Kasteel, gemeente Almere
Opdrachtgever: Tijs Blom Vastgoed BV, Eemnes
Palaeo-ecologisch onderzoek aan een bodemprofiel uit de locatie Almere Kasteel, Gemeente Almere
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Palynologisch onderzoek en dateringen van een Romeinse afvallaag bij Bodegraven
Opdrachtgever: AWN Rijnstreek
Palaeo-ecologisch onderzoek aan plaggen uit de wal van de Karolingische Ringwalburg van Domburg
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