Pollen Spectra from Neolithic Grave Monuments in the Northern Netherlands (fig. 8)

Abstract

(p. 29)

Soil samples from the old surface below prehistorie barrows can yield useful pollenspectra. The influence of the local anthropogenic vegetation is naturally very strong in such spectra, but the regional vegetational phenomena can also be recognized and a correlation with pollen diagrams from lakes and bogs is generally possible. In Danish pollen diagrams Iversen and Troels-Smith have demonstrated at least two types of land occupation phases ('landnam'), pointing to two different agricultural systems.