Original title: Dendrochronology improves understanding of the charcoal production history, increasing the tourist potential in the Drahany Highlands
Authors: Rybníček, Michal ; Bajer, A. ; Friedl, M. ; Knott, R. ; Kočár, Petr ; Kučera, A. ; Novák, J. ; Vavrčík, H. ; Kolář, Tomáš
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: Public recreation and landscape protection – with environment hand in hand…, Křtiny (CZ), 20220509
Year: 2022
Language: eng
Abstract: Over the last two years, three selected forest sites from Drahany Highlands were examined for traces of human activity. The most frequent traces found, and common to all three sites, were remains of charcoal production. This paper provides an anatomical and dendrochronological analysis of the charcoals found in two charcoal pile remains from each site. The species composition of the charcoals at the southern site was dominated by oak, followed by birch and hornbeam. Fir was more common than oak, beech, poplar, birch and hornbeam at the central site. Fir and beech were found at the northern site. By using dendrochronology, 23 fir, oak and beech charcoals were dated with the oldest sample coming from a central site and dated from the period 1753–1758. Charcoals from the three other charcoal piles fell into the first half of the 19th century. Radiocarbon dating of charcoals selected gave a very wide age range (1640–1955), except for one case (1399–1435). Providing information on the age of a charcoal pile can help raise public awareness and interest in viewing the sites where charcoal burners used to be active in the forests.
Keywords: Charcoal pile; culture heritage; tourism; tree rings; wood species
Host item entry: Public Recreation and Landscape Protection With Environment Hand in Hand… Proceedings of the 13th Conference, ISBN 9788075098306

Institution: Global Change Research Institute AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at external website.
External URL: https://doi.mendelu.cz/pdfs/doi/9900/01/2300.pdf
Original record: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0339398

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