Mid and late holocene land-use changes in the Ötztal alps, territory of the neolithic iceman "Ötzi"

Quaternary International

Volumn 353, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 17-33

  Festi, Daniela ^a   Putzer, Andreas ^a   Oeggl, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BRONZE AGE; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; NEOLITHIC; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY;

EID: 84923163392     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.052     Document Type: Article

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