Numerically derived evidence for late-Holocene climate change and its impact on human presence in the southwest Taurus Mountains, Turkey

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 425-438

  Bakker, J ^a,d   Kaniewski, D ^b,d   Verstraeten, G ^a,d   de Laet, V ^a,d   Waelkens, M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

'Little Ice Age'; 'Medieval Climate Anomaly'; numerical analyses; pollen; southwest Turkey

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CEREAL; CLIMATE VARIATION; CULTIVATION; HOLOCENE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PASTORALISM; POLLEN; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

BURDUR [TURKEY]; SAGALASSOS; TAURIDES; TURKEY;

EID: 84858174541     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611425546     Document Type: Article

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