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Linking European building activity with plague history

Charpentier Ljungqvist, Fredrik (author)
Stockholms universitet,Historiska institutionen,University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Tegel, Willy (author)
Krusic, Paul J. (author)
Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för naturgeografi,University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Seim, Andrea (author)
Gschwind, Friederike M. (author)
Haneca, Kristof (author)
Herzig, Franz (author)
Heussner, Karl-Uwe (author)
Hofmann, Jutta (author)
Houbrechts, David (author)
Kontic, Raymond (author)
Kyncl, Tomáš (author)
Leuschner, Hanns Hubert (author)
Nicolussi, Kurt (author)
Perrault, Christophe (author)
Pfeifer, Klaus (author)
Schmidhalter, Martin (author)
Seifert, Mathias (author)
Walder, Felix (author)
Westphal, Thorsten (author)
Büntgen, Ulf (author)
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Elsevier BV, 2018
2018
English.
In: Journal of Archaeological Science. - : Elsevier BV. - 0305-4403 .- 1095-9238. ; 98, s. 81-92
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  • Variations in building activity reflect demographic, economic and social change during history. Tens of thousands of wooden constructions in Europe have been dendrochronologically dated in recent decades. We use the annually precise evidence from a unique dataset of 49 640 tree felling dates of historical constructions to reconstruct temporal changes in building activity between 1250 and 1699 CE across a large part of western and central Europe largely corresponding to the former Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Comparison with annual records of 9772 plague outbreaks shows that construction activity was significantly negatively correlated to the number of plague outbreaks, with the greatest decrease in construction following the larger outbreaks by three to four years after the start of the epidemics. Preceding the Black Death (1346-1353 CE) by five decades and the Great Famine (1315-1322 CE) by two decades, a significant decline in construction activity at c. 1300 CE is indicative of a societal crisis, associated with population stagnation or decline. Another dramatic decline in building activity coincides with the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648 CE) and confirms the devastating nature of this conflict. While construction activity was significantly lower during periods of high grain prices, no statistically robust relationship between the number of felling dates and past temperature or hydroclimate variations is found. This study demonstrates the value of dendrochronological felling dates as an indicator for times of crisis and prosperity during periods when documentary evidence is limited.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)
SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology (hsv//eng)
HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi (hsv//swe)
HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology (hsv//eng)
NATURVETENSKAP  -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)
NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Cultural heritage
Dendrochronology
Felling dates
Historical demography
Late Medieval Crisis
Thirty Years' War
Yersinia pestis

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