Late Holocene geoarchaeological investigation of the Middle Thames floodplain at Dorney, Buckinghamshire, UK: An evaluation of the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and Saxon landscapes

Geomorphology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 471-483

  Parker, Adrian G ^a   Lucas, Alex S ^b   Walden, John ^c   Goudie, Andrew S ^d   Robinson, Mark A ^d   Allen, Tim G ^e  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e Oxford Archaeology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental magnetism; Geoarchaeology; Late Holocene; Middle Thames; Palaeochannels

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; BRONZE AGE; CHANNEL FLOW; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IRON AGE; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; MEDIEVAL; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCHANNEL; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENTATION; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE; DORNEY; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; THAMES RIVER [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 53049107586     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.04.029     Document Type: Article

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