New perspectives on Holocene landscape development in the southern English chalklands: The upper Allen valley, Cranborne Chase, Dorset

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 109-134

  French, C ^a   Lewis, H ^b   Scaife, R ^c   Allen, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d WESSEX ARCHAEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BRONZE AGE; HOLOCENE; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MESOLITHIC; NEOLITHIC; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PREHISTORIC; WOODLAND;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; CHASE; DORSET [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 13844289484     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.20039     Document Type: Article

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