A palynological contribution to the environmental archaeology of a Mediterranean mountain wetland (North West Apennines, Italy)

Holocene

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1517-1527

  Guido, Maria A ^a   Menozzi, Bruna I ^a   Bellini, Cristina ^b   Placereani, Sandra ^a   Montanari, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

charcoal; Holocene; landscape history; Liguria; peat deposition; pollen

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCHAEOLOGY; CHARCOAL; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONIFEROUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPLOITATION; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PASTURE; PEAT; PEATLAND; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLLEN; SILVICULTURE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WETLAND;

APENNINES; ITALY; LIGURIA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84885444753     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683613496294     Document Type: Article

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