

Throughout Europe, wartime captives were commonly forced into slavery. Europe and the Mediterranean world were part of a highly interconnected network of slave trading. Soils with lower water retention capacity were not colonized until the eleventh century, which may signify the transition at that time to a higher level of agricultural organisation and wheat as a staple cereal food. Slavery, or the process of restricting peoples’ freedoms, was widespread within Medieval Europe.

Such soils were particularly suitable for the cultivation of barley, which is known to have been one of the most important staple crops of the period, especially in colder climate such as subalpine. Slavonia enjoys a moderate continental climate with relatively low precipitation. In the west, the region consists of the Sava and Drava valleys and the mountains surrounding the Poega Valley, and plains in the east. It revealed that early medieval settlers were drawn to light soils with high water retention capacity. Slavonia is located in the Pannonian Basin, largely bordered by the Danube, Drava, and Sava rivers. Our approach is demonstrated by a case study focusing on early medieval settlements in the context of agricultural land use in the subalpine microregion of Bled (Slovenia). and in the 10th century it came under Germany as part of the medieval empire (later the Holy Roman Empire). The second is the modified landform classification, a combination of topographic position index and visual geomorphological analysis, which amalgamates two of the most important predictive variables for the distribution of plant species. Slovenia, officially Republic of Slovenia, Country, northwestern Balkans region, central Europe. The first is the modified wetness index, which combines the LiDAR-derived precision with the accuracy of the effective field capacity of the soil to obtain a very realistic predictor of soil quality. We introduced two methodological innovations. Being the largest medieval castle in Slovenia, Celje Castle is standing on a 407 m high hill, offering a magnificent view of the city of Celje. We combined information from LiDAR-derived DEM derivatives with archaeological, geological, and soil data. To this end, we took an innovative approach to using LiDAR data as a means of discovering, documenting, and interpreting agricultural land use systems by looking for significant environmental variation within a microregion. How well do you know the medieval art of Slovenia Take a quiz. However, its use for landscape reconstruction and understanding archaeological sites in their environmental context is still underutilised. Read our short e-book and learn about medieval art in the Slovenian lands. The use of topographic airborne LiDAR data has become an essential part of archaeological prospection, particularly as a tool for detecting archaeological features in the landscape.
