Human response to palaeoenvironmental change and the question of temporal scale

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 292, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 192-200

  Holdaway, S J ^a   Fanning, P C ^b   Rhodes, E J ^c,e   Marx, S K ^d   Floyd, B ^a   Douglass, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dust; Holocene; Human environment interactions; Radiocarbon; Sea surface temperatures

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION; DATA SET; DUST; HOLOCENE; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 78449246001     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.03.043     Document Type: Article

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