Peat records of human impacts on the atmosphere in Northwest China during the late Neolithic and Bronze Ages

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 286, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 17-22

  Yu, Xuefeng ^a,b   Zhou, Weijian ^a   Liu, Xiaoqing ^c   Xian, Feng ^a   Liu, Zhao ^a,d   Zheng, Yanhong ^b   An, Zhisheng ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Research and Design Institute of Environmental Science of Shaanxi Province   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Atmospheric environment; China; Hongyuan peatland; Human impacts; Neolithic Bronze Age; Peat

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCHAEOLOGY; BACKGROUND LEVEL; BRONZE AGE; HEAVY METAL; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NEOLITHIC; PEATLAND; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CHINA;

EID: 74449088891     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.11.034     Document Type: Article

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