RESNIKOV PREKOP. The oldest pile-dwelling settlement in the Ljubljansko barje

Alexandra A. GOLYEVA

Palaeoecological reconstructions based on the biomorphic analysis.
A case study: Resnikov prekop

Abstract

Biomorphic analysis is the microscopic investigation of detritus, phytoliths and other remains of biota for the reconstruction of ancient pedogenic conditions. Each biomorph is associated with certain types of landscape, and provides information on conditions of landscape evolution. Biomorphic analysis enables the researcher to obtain complementary information about the genesis of different sequences. Furthermore it can give information about the origin of parent material. It is important that identification of erosional and accumulative events can be obtained by the study of biomorphs. Also determination of the composition of local and regional plant communities is possible. Biomorphic data give an unambiguous, complimentary picture of the genesis of a sequence; their integrated analyses make it possible to reveal different events in the development of landscape.

As examples, samples were studied from Resnikov prekop, Ljubljansko barje. The palaeoecological reconstructions show the polygenetic origin of the region.

Key words: Resnikov prekop, Ljubljansko barje, Slovenia, phytoliths, diatoms, spicules, biomorph analysis, reconstructions

Sponge spicule from the sample 2.
Photo: A. Golyeva.

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2006, (Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae, 10), 156 pp, 88 b/w drawings, photos, tables, graphs and maps, 20 x 29 cm, hardcover, ISBN 961-6568-40-X.

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