Linking past cultural developments to palaeoenvironmental changes in Estonia

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 315-327

  Sillasoo, Ülle ^a,b   Poska, Anneli ^c,d   Seppä, Heikki ^e   Blaauw, Maarten ^f   Chambers, Frank M ^g  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

^c TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Baltic Sea region; Early agriculture; Late Holocene; Palaeoclimate; Pollen analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649697333     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-008-0210-6     Document Type: Article

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