The impact of mining activities on the environment reflected by pollen, charcoal and geochemical analyses

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1458-1467

  Breitenlechner, Elisabeth ^a   Hilber, Marina ^a   Lutz, Joachim ^b   Kathrein, Yvonne ^a   Unterkircher, Alois ^a   Oeggl, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b University of Tübingen and Curt Engelhorn Zentrum Archäometrie   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; MINING; PALEOECOLOGY; POLLEN; PREHISTORIC; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING;

AUSTRIA; SCHWAZ; TYROL;

EID: 77952547320     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2010.01.006     Document Type: Article

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