Vegetations- und Nutzungsgeschichte des Karwendels vom Mesolithikum bis in die Neuzeit

Abstract

Archaeological surveys and excavations as well as pollen analyses in the Karwendel Mountains prove that humans have always frequented this mountain range situated between Tyrol (Austria) and Bavaria (Germany) since the Mesolithic. However, the human impact on the natural vegetation in the heart of the mountain range remained very modest until modern times. Even a pastoral use of this marginal landscape is only attested with certainty since the Roman era although the Karwendel Mountains are adjacent to the Inn valley, which played an important role as a transalpine communication route since the Mesolithic and was increasingly densely populated since the Bronze Age.