Simulating the nature of vegetation communities at the opening of the Neolithic on Achill Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland - the potential role of models of pollen dispersal and deposition

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 144, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 135-144

  Caseldine, Chris ^a   Fyfe, Ralph ^b   Langdon, Catherine ^a   Thompson, Gareth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ireland; landscape reconstruction; modelling; Neolithic; pollen analysis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DISPERSAL; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NEOLITHIC; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; STOCHASTICITY; VEGETATION;

ACHILL ISLAND; CONNACHT; COUNTY MAYO; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

ULMUS;

EID: 33947187314     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.07.002     Document Type: Article

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