Climate and human-environment relationships on the edge of the Tenaghi-Philippon marsh (Northern Greece) during the Neolithization process

Quaternary International

Volumn 403, Issue , 2016, Pages 237-250

  Glais, Arthur ^a   López Sáez, José Antonio ^b   Lespez, Laurent ^c   Davidson, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

Author keywords

Human impact; NE Greece; Neolithic; Palynology; SE Balkans; Wetland

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MARSH; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NEOLITHIC; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BALKANS; CENTRAL MACEDONIA; GREECE; SERRAI [CENTRAL MACEDONIA]; TENAGHI PHILIPPON;

EID: 84940706716     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.07.032     Document Type: Article

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