Multi-disciplinary evidence of the Holocene history of a cultivated floodplain area in the wetlands of northern Colombia

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 161-174

  Berrío, Juan Carlos ^a   Boom, Arnoud ^b   Botero, Pedro José ^c   Herrera, Luisa Fernanda ^d   Hooghiemstra, Henry ^a   Romero, Freddy ^d   Sarmiento, Gustavo ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c Fundación Terra Preta   (Colombia)

^d Fundacion Erigaie   (Colombia)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Colombia; Holocene; Multi disciplinary analysis; Palynology; Pre Hispanic raised fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035486612     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006928     Document Type: Article

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