'Why they came'; the colonization of the coast of western Sweden and its environmental context at the end of the last glaciation

Oxford Journal of Archaeology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-28

  Schmitt, Lou ^a   Larsson, Stephan ^a   Schrum, Corrina ^b   Alekseeva, Irina ^c   Tomczak, Matthias ^d   Svedhage, Krister ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARCHIPELAGO; COLONIZATION; LAST GLACIATION; LATE GLACIAL; MESOLITHIC; PALEOLITHIC; PALYNOLOGY;

BOHUSLAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; VASTRA GOTALAND;

EID: 33646586365     PISSN: 02625253     EISSN: 14680092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2006.00246.x     Document Type: Article

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