Hunter-gatherer responses to environmental change during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the southern North Sea basin: Final Palaeolithic-Final Mesolithic land use in northwest Belgium

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 454-471

  Crombé, Philippe ^a   Sergant, Joris ^a   Robinson, Erick ^a   De Reu, Jeroen ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belgium; Chronology; Hunter gatherer; Land use; Late Glacial; Mesolithic; Mobility; North Sea basin; Northwest Europe; Palaeoenvironment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960938094     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: 10902686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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