Changes of environments and human activity at the Sannai-Maruyama ruins in Japan during the mid-Holocene Hypsithermal climatic interval

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 9-10, 2009, Pages 964-974

  Kawahata, Hodaka ^a,b,c   Yamamoto, Hisashi ^c   Ohkushi, Ken'ichi ^d   Yokoyama, Yusuke ^a   Kimoto, Katsunori ^e   Ohshima, Hideki ^f   Matsuzaki, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f Palynosurvey Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRE HAZARDS; FOOD SUPPLY; FORESTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC CARBON; SEAWATER; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE WATERS; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES;

ALKENONE; ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES; ENVIRONMENTAL RECORDS; HIGH PRODUCTIVITIES; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN COMMUNITIES; HUMAN HABITATIONS; LOCAL CLIMATES; MARINE ENVIRONMENTS; MARINE RESOURCES; MESOPOTAMIA; QUERCUS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCES; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE RISE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBONS; VERTICAL MIXING; WATER COLUMNS; YANGTZE RIVERS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; HYPSITHERMAL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

AOMORI; ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; MUTSU BAY; TOHOKU;

CASTANEA; CYCLOBALANOPSIS; QUERCUS;

EID: 62749135971     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.12.009     Document Type: Article

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