Short-term mid-Holocene climatic deterioration in the West Mediterranean region: Climatic impact on Neolithic settlement pattern?

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Supplementband

Volumn 142, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-17

  Zielhofer, Christoph ^a   Linstädter, Jörg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; HUMIDITY; LAND USE; NEOLITHIC; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PASTORALISM; SETTLEMENT PATTERN;

AFRICA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUNISIA;

EID: 33845744374     PISSN: 00442798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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