Wild or cultivated Olea europaea L. in the eastern Mediterranean during the middle-late Holocene? a pollen-numerical approach

Holocene

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1039-1047

  Kaniewski, David ^a,b,c   Paulissen, Etienne ^c   van Campo, Elise ^a,b   Bakker, Johan ^c   van Lerberghe, Karel ^c   Waelkens, Marc ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b Institut National Polytechnique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Holocene; Numerical analyses; Olea europaea L.; Pollen; Southwest Turkey; Syrian lowland

Indexed keywords

BRONZE AGE; COLLAPSE; CULTIVATION; EVERGREEN TREE; FRUIT; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY;

ASIA; BURDUR [TURKEY]; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; SAGALASSOS; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; TURKEY;

OLEA EUROPAEA;

EID: 70350502186     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683609341000     Document Type: Article

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