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Water and landscape management for 3,000 years in a mid-mountain area: evolution of the Gourgon mires complex (Massif Central, France) under anthropogenic and climate forcing

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In order to better understand the long-term management of water resource and its relationship with peatlands in mid-mountain areas, a research project was conducted in the mire complex of Gourgon, in the Forez Mountains (Eastern Massif Central, France). The peat growth response to global and local changes was reconstructed based (1) on the radiocarbon dating of basal peat layers, (2) on the study of macrofossils and (3) on palynological analyses of key peat cores. This palaeoecological approach provided new answers to understand the development of the uplands and to fill the gaps between archaeological sites. Three major steps were identified during the last 3,000 years: (i) cultivation and pastoral activities from the Iron Age to the Roman Times; (ii) afforestation and predominant grazing during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages; and (iii) major forest clearing motivated by cultivation needs (winter crops including rye – Secale cereale) during the Middle Ages. Comparison of lithological and palaeoecological data with topographical data and regional archaeological information highlighted that the anthropogenic diversion of streams, created to supply high-altitude farms, reduced the water flow in the valley and favoured the accumulation of peat for centuries. Thus, human activities were involved in the development of mire-valley ecosystems. This response of peatland ecosystems to human activities fits with a wider pattern of anthropogenically-induced peatlands in Central France. It underlines the importance of multidisciplinary and retrospective scientific studies in understanding the mechanisms of wetland evolution in the long-term.

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Acknowledgements

This research was funded by the University Jean Monnet of Saint-Etienne (University of Lyon, France), as well as by the University of Innsbruck (Austria). We thank Nils Lervy-Mayère for his help in the field and for the laboratory analysis, Emmanuel Gandouin together with Philippe Ponel (Aix-Marseille University, France), for their advice in the insect analysis, as well Werner Kofler (University of Innsbruck, Austria) for the chemical treatment of the palynological samples. We also thank two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments that helped us to improve this work, as well as Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu, John Daniell and Felix Bittmann for taking care of the editorial aspects of the article.

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  1. Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, ENTPE, UMR 5023 LEHNA, Vaulx-en-Velin, F-69518, France

    André-Marie Dendievel

  2. Univ Lyon, Université Jean Monnet, UMR CNRS 5600 EVS, 6 rue Basse des Rives, Saint-Etienne Cedex 02, F-42023, France

    Hervé Cubizolle

  3. Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Sternwartestrasse 15, Innsbruck, A-6020, Austria

    Benjamin Dietre & Jean Nicolas Haas

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Dendievel, AM., Cubizolle, H., Dietre, B. et al. Water and landscape management for 3,000 years in a mid-mountain area: evolution of the Gourgon mires complex (Massif Central, France) under anthropogenic and climate forcing. Veget Hist Archaeobot (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00959-5

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