Anthropogenic impact on vegetation and environment during the Bronze Age in the area of Lake Durankulak, NE Bulgaria: Pollen, microscopic charcoal, non-pollen palynomorphs and plant macrofossils

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 141, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 165-178

  Marinova, Elena ^a   Atanassova, Juliana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

anthropogenic impact; Bronze Age; microscopic charcoal; non pollen palynomorphs; Northeast Bulgaria; plant macrofossils; pollen analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BRONZE AGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MICROFOSSIL; PALYNOMORPH; RADIOCARBON DATING; VEGETATION;

BLACK SEA; BULGARIA; DURANKULAK LAKE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AGROSTEMMA; AGROSTEMMA GITHAGO; ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CENTAUREA; CENTAUREA CYANUS; FUNGI; JUGLANS; SECALE CEREALE; VITIS; VITIS SP.;

EID: 33747160429     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.03.011     Document Type: Article

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