Archeology and the anthropocene

Anthropocene

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-7

  Erlandson, Jon M ^a   Braje, Todd J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerating technological change; Anatomically modern humans; Historical ecology; Hominin evolution and dispersals; Human impacts; Population growth

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CULTURAL CHANGE; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; POPULATION GROWTH; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84906828338     PISSN: 22133054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ancene.2014.05.003     Document Type: Article

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