Deserted Britain: Declining populations in the British Late Middle Pleistocene

Antiquity

Volumn 76, Issue 292, 2002, Pages 388-396

  Ashton, Nick ^a   Lewis, Simon ^b  

^a BRITISH MUSEUM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Britain; Demography; Middle Pleistocene; Oxygen Isotope Stages 6 4

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; HABITAT; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DECLINE; SEA LEVEL;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0036078843     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00090505     Document Type: Article

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