Abrupt Holocene climate change as an important factor for human migration in West Greenland

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 9765-9769

  D'Andrea, William J ^a,d   Huang, Yongsong ^a   Fritz, Sherilyn C ^b   Anderson, N John ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Arctic; Biomarker; Paleoclimatology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIVILIZATION; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GREENLAND; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION;

CARBON; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GREENLAND; HUMANS; ICE COVER; IRELAND; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 79960026444     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1101708108     Document Type: Article

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