Late Pleistocene to Mid-Holocene landscape reconstruction in the western part of the Thessaloniki Plain, Greece: Evidence for environmental changes, and implications for human occupation

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie

Volumn 58, Issue , 2014, Pages 67-87

  Psomiadis, D ^a   Ghilardi, M ^a   Demory, F ^a   Delanghe Sabatier, D ^a   Bloemendal, J ^b   Yiu, C ^a  

^a CEREGE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

geoarchaeology; Holocene; Late Pleistocene; magnetic parameters; Neolithic; northern Greece; palaeoenvironment; sedimentology; Thessaloniki plain

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LANDSCAPE; NEOLITHIC; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

CENTRAL MACEDONIA; GREECE; THESSALONIKI [CENTRAL MACEDONIA];

EID: 84954476743     PISSN: 03728854     EISSN: 18641687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0372-8854/2013/S-00137     Document Type: Article

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