WOODPDLAKE

Archaeological Wooden Pile-Dwelling in Mediterranean European lakes: strategies for their exploitation, monitoring and conservation.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Waterlogged wood has been rarely studied in lakeside environments and the few examples are related to the glacial settlements. There are very few insights into wooden pile-dwelling (WPD) (wood degradation, dendrochronology, tree species, reconstruction of the landscape) in the context of volcanic and karstictectonic origin lakes in Mediterranean.

WOODPDLAKE’s main objective is to assess the impact of climate change and extreme climate events on the conservation and safeguard of pile dwellings in Mediterranean lakes. The research aims to be interdisciplinary merging environmental analysis of the lake (water quality and biological studies) into the investigation carried out on WPD.

Banyoles Lake (Spain)

Mezzano Lake (Italy)

Bolsena Lake (Italy)

PROJECT GOALS

1) To Establish and improve the knowledge base of WPD in lakeside environments of volcanic and karstic-tectonic origin in the Mediterranean coastal and inland areas in order to understand the sites’ formation processes and the implications for site conservation. 

2) Capitalize existing information on the selected case studies and establish a network of researchers studying lake environments, and combining results obtained by different disciplines will be in order to assess the impact of the current climate on lake and on pile-dwellings’ conservation. We would also like to assess the evolution of past climate conditions, with the possibility of formulating future scenarios. (read more)

1) To Establish and improve the knowledge base of WPD in lakeside environments of volcanic and karstic-tectonic origin in the Mediterranean coastal and inland areas in order to understand the sites’ formation processes and the implications for site conservation. 

2) Capitalize existing information on the selected case studies and establish a network of researchers studying lake environments, and combining results obtained by different disciplines will be in order to assess the impact of the current climate on lake and on pile-dwellings’ conservation. We would also like to assess the evolution of past climate conditions, with the possibility of formulating future scenarios. (read more)

3) Identifying daily monitoring processes to verify the effect of extreme climate events on the surrounding environment and to evaluate their effects on the sediment and the state of conservation of the archeological settlements.

4) To support innovative methodologies in wood research in cultural heritage like isotopes to obtain a more detailed and innovative framework for proxy data.

5) Increase local awareness (especially amongst stakeholders) on the historical, cultural and environmental value of the cultural wooden goods and establish a participatory decision-making process. We envision actions for the preservation and safeguard of this cultural heritage and its benefit to the public. We are also consolidating and exploring what it means to have “quality” “thematic” and “sensitive” tourism.

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