Impacts of palaeoclimate change 60 000-8000 years ago on humans and their environments in Europe: Integrating palaeoenvironmental and archaeological data

Quaternary International

Volumn 378, Issue , 2015, Pages 4-13

  Birks, Hilary H ^a   Gelorini, Vanessa ^b   Robinson, Erick ^b,d   Hoek, Wim Z ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY;

BELGIUM; EAST FLANDERS; GHENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84939574624     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.02.022     Document Type: Article

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