Environmental changes and human land-use interactions in ancient Thrace during the Iron Age: The impact of Greek colonization

• Název práce v češtině: Vzájemné vztahy změn přírodního prostředí a člověka ve starověké Thrákii v době železné: vliv řecké kolonizace
• Název v anglickém jazyce: Environmental changes and human land-use interactions in ancient Thrace during the Iron Age: The impact of Greek colonization
• Klíčová slova: klima, vegetace, zemědělství, Thrákie, Pistiros, krajina
• Klíčová slova anglicky: climate, vegetation, agriculture, Thrace, Pistiros, landscape
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2014/2015
• Typ práce: diplomová práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Ústav pro klasickou archeologii (21-UKAR)
• Vedoucí / školitel: prof. PhDr. Peter Pavúk, Ph.D.
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd.
• Datum přihlášení: 29.06.2015
• Datum zadání: 17.07.2015
• Schválení administrátorem: zatím neschvalováno
• Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: 26.05.2016
• Datum a čas obhajoby: 16.09.2016 09:00
• Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: 22.08.2016
• Datum proběhlé obhajoby: 16.09.2016
• Odevzdaná/finalizovaná: odevzdaná studentem a finalizovaná
• Oponenti: prof. PhDr. Jan Bouzek, DrSc.

Zásady pro vypracování

The thesis deals with environmental conditions and human settlement development during the first millennium B.C. in the region of ancient Thrace. The study will focus on changing character of regional climate and its impact on local landscape transformation and human society. A further emphasis will be placed on the Greek influence on the Thracian economic growth. Both environmental and anthropogenic factors have played a significant role in transforming the agriculture. Finally, the thesis will summarize the results of environmental analyses carried out within the interdisciplinary archaeological research at the site of the ancient Greek inland emporium Pistiros (Adjiyska Vodenitsa, Bulgaria) which will be used as a case study.

- History of research, environmental archaeology in Bulgaria
- Historical background of the Thracian region
- Climate development and changes during the Bronze Age/Iron Age
- Landscape, vegetation
- Types of sites in Bulgaria during the Iron Age
- Agriculture- Thracian sites
- Greek inland emporia (imports, organic material)
- Human impact on landscape- changes in Bulgaria after the Greek colonization (vegetation, agriculture, imports, land-use intensity)
- The case of Adjiyska Vodenitsa (ancient Pistiros): methods, paleoenvironmental proxy data, role in Greek and Thracian world

Seznam odborné literatury

Bouzek, J. – Domaradzki, M. – Archibald, Z. (eds.) 1996: Pistiros I. Excavations and Studies. Prague.
Bouzek, J. – Domaradzka, L. – Archibald, Z. (eds.) 2002: Pistiros II. Excavations and Studies. Prague.
Bouzek, J. – Domaradzka, L. – Archibald, Z. (eds.) 2007: Pistiros III. Excavations and Studies. Prague.
Bouzek, J. – Domaradzka, L. – Archibald, Z. (eds.) 2010: Pistiros IV. Excavations and Studies. Prague.
Bouzek, J. – Domaradzka, L. – Archibald, Z. (eds.) 2013: Pistiros V. Excavations and Studies. Prague.
Chiverrell, R.C. – Archibald, Z.H. 2009: Human activity and landscape change at Adjiyska Vodenitsa, central Bulgaria. Géomorphologie 4, 287-302.
Drake, B. L. 2012: The influence of climatic change on the Late Bronze Age Collapse and the Greek Dark Ages. Journal of Archaeological Science 30, 1-9.
Marinova, E. – Kirleis, W. – Bittmann, F. 2012 : Human Landscapes and Climate Change during the Holocene (editorial). Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 21, 245-248.
Marinova, E. – Tonkov, S. –Bozilova, L. –Vajsov, I. 2012: Holocene anthropogenic landscapes in the Balkans: the palaeobotanical evidence from southwestern Bulgaria. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 21, 413-427.
Stout, E.C. – Beck, C.W. – Naliboff, L.C. – Phillips, A.J. 2003: Organic residues in pottery from the Greek settlement of Pistiros, Bulgaria. Studia Hercynia 7, 81-114.