Is Neolithic land use correlated with demography? An evaluation of pollen-derived land cover and radiocarbon-inferred demographic change from Central Europe

Holocene

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1297-1307

  Lechterbeck, Jutta ^a   Edinborough, Kevan ^b   Kerig, Tim ^b,c   Fyfe, Ralph ^d   Roberts, Neil ^d   Shennan, Stephen ^b  

^a Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden Württemberg   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

demography; Holocene; Lake Constance; land cover reconstruction; Middle Europe; Neolithic; pollen; radiocarbon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907315170     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683614540952     Document Type: Article

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