Mid- and late-Holocene land-use changes inferred from pollen records, in a south-eastern Estonian upland area

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 146, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 51-73

  Niinemets, Eve ^a,b   Saarse, Leili ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

8200 cold event; land use; SE Estonia; vegetation history

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BRONZE AGE; HOLOCENE; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; IRON AGE; LAND USE CHANGE; MESOLITHIC; NEOLITHIC; PALYNOLOGY; POPULATION DECLINE; RADIOCARBON DATING; THERMOPHILY; TREE; UPLAND REGION; VEGETATION HISTORY;

BALTIC STATES; ESTONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE;

CANNABIS; CEREALIA;

EID: 34548232306     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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