A Neolithic yew bow in the Polish Carpathians. Evidence of the impact of human activity on mountainous palaeoenvironment from the Kamiennik landslide peat bog

Catena

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 141-153

  Margielewski, Włodzimierz ^a   Krapiec, Marek ^b   Valde Nowak, Paweł ^c   Zernitskaya, Valentina ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF NATURE CONSERVATION   (Poland)

^b AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d Institute for Nature Management   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Landslide peat bog; Middle and Late Holocene; Neolithic bow; Palaeoenvironmental changes; Polish Flysch Carpathians; Prehistoric human activity

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; FOSSIL RECORD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUNTING; LANDSLIDE; NEOLITHIC; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PEATLAND; PREHISTORIC; RADIOCARBON DATING; SOIL HORIZON; WOOD;

CARPATHIANS; POLAND;

TAXUS;

EID: 73849084547     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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