Middle Bronze Age land use practices in the north-western Alpine foreland – A multi-proxy study of colluvial deposits, archaeological features and peat bogs

This paper aims to reconstruct Middle Bronze Age (MBA) land use practices in the north-western Alpine foreland (SW 35 Germany, Hegau). We used a multi-proxy approach including the biogeochemical proxies from colluvial deposits in the surrounding of the well-documented settlement site of Anselfingen and offsite pollen data from two peat bogs. This approach allowed in-depth insights into the MBA subsistence economy and shows that the MBA in the north-western Alpine foreland https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2020-84 Preprint. Discussion started: 6 January 2021 c © Author(s) 2021. CC BY 4.0 License.