Assessing the role of winter grazing in historic land degradation, Mývatnssveit, northeast Iceland

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 471-502

  Simpson, Ian A ^a   Gumundsson, Garar ^b   Thomson, Amanda M ^a   Cluett, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Archaeology   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; GRAZING; HISTORICAL RECORD; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; SOIL EROSION; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; WINTER;

ICELAND;

EID: 2442702910     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.20006     Document Type: Article

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