Keywords:
Environmental archaeology.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (303 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789401091763
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=3109385
Language:
English
Note:
Front -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Editor's notes -- Part One -- Introduction -- Forward to the past: changing approaches to Quaternary palaeoecology -- Radiocarbon dating and the palynologist: a realistic approach to precision and accuracy -- Great oaks from little acorns ... : precision and accuracy in Irish dendrochronology -- Part Two -- Peat bogs as sources of proxy climatic data: past approaches and future research -- Forest response to Holocene climatic change: equilibrium or non-equilibrium -- Isolating the climatic factors in early- and mid-Holocene palaeobotanical records from Scotland -- Radiocarbon dating of arctic-alpine palaeosols and the reconstruction of Holocene palaeoenvironmental change -- Part Three -- Earliest palynological records of human impact on the world's vegetation -- Vegetation change during the Mesolithic in the British Isles: some amplifications -- The development of high moorland on Dartmoor: fire and the influence of Mesolithic activity on vegetation change -- Models of mid-Holocene forest farming for north-west Europe -- The influence of human communities on the English chalklands from the Mesolithic to the Iron Age: the molluscan evidence -- Mesolithic, early Neolithic, and later prehistoric impacts on vegetation at a riverine site in Derbyshire, England -- Holocene (Flandrian) vegetation change and human activity in the Carneddau area of upland mid-Wales -- Early land use and vegetation history at Derryinver Hill, Renvyle Peninsula, Co. Galway, Ireland -- Part Four -- Rapid early-Holocene migration and high abundance of hazel -- The origin of blanket mire, revisited -- Climatic change and human impact during the late Holocene in northern Britain -- Palaeoecology of floating bogs and landscape change in the Great Lakes drainage basin of North America.
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Late-Quaternary climatic change and human impact: commentary and conclusions -- Index.
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