LANDEVALUATIE IN DE PONTIJNSE REGIO (ZUID-LATIUM, ITALIË), DATERINGSPROBLEMEN ROND EEN BRONSTIJD-AKKERBOUWFASE

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The technique of land evaluation was used to reconstruct land use in the Pontine region in the Bronze Age. Pollen analysis and archeologi­cal finds made it clear that the importance of cereal farming in the Bronze Age was much greater than Puglisi (1959) stated. A pollen core taken in the now dry lake of Campo Verde in the Pontine Region offered proof of cereal farming before 3730 ±120 BP. However, the core showed a disturbed sediment with older deposits on top of younger ones. The 14C dates and the presence of Liguliflorae indicated a so­-called mirrored sediment, being the effect of lateral erosion of the lake shores. This may have been caused by denudation af the surroun­ding landscape as a result of cereal farming.