4000 years of human impact and vegetation change in the central Peruvian Andes - With events parallelling the Maya record?

Antiquity

Volumn 70, Issue 270, 1996, Pages 824-833

  Chepstow Lusty, A J ^a   Bennett, K D ^a   Switsur, V R ^a   Kendall, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Cusichaca Trust Springfields   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; LAKE SEDIMENT; MAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; SEQUENCING; VEGETATION CHANGE;

PERU, ANDES; PERU, MARCACOCHA;

EID: 0030436324     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X0008409X     Document Type: Article

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