From foraging to farming in the Great Mazurian Lake District: Palynological studies on Lake Miłkowskie sediments, northeast Poland

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 187-203

  Wacnik, Agnieszka ^a  

^a W SZAFER INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Early Cerealia type pollen; Human impact; Mesolithic Neolithic and Neolithic Bronze Age transitions; Northeast Poland; Vegetation history

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CEREALIA;

EID: 63949086484     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-008-0196-0     Document Type: Article

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