- VEGA 2/0031/23 Analysis and evaluations of the environmental history of selected types of Slovak landscape from the early prehistory to the present (1.1.2023 – 31.12.2026)
By using natural resources, ecosystem services and activities, man directly or indirectly affects the natural environment and the quality of its components, within a time and space framework. The extent and intensity of human influence on the landscape has been changing over the centuries, depending on current period. To identify the degree of human influence on the landscape, it is essential to get know the original landscape, which has not been significantly affected by man. As such, a landscape no longer exists in the Central Europe; it needs to be scientifically reconstructed in some way. The aim of the project is to reconstruct the landscape, in model areas representing selected types of the Slovak landscape, in several periods of historical and archaeological past and to evaluate the consequences of human activities in them. It is important to analyse the relationship between man and his environment over the time.