Living on the good soil: Relationships between soils, vegetation and human settlement during the late Allerød period in Denmark

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 195-205

  Mortensen, Morten Fischer ^a   Henriksen, Peter Steen ^a   Bennike, Ole ^b  

^a National Museum of Denmark   (Denmark)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bromme Culture; Late glacial; Macrofossils; Palaeoecology; Vegetational development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897674366     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-014-0433-7     Document Type: Article

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