Middle Holocene rapid environmental changes and human adaptation in Greece

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 227-244

  Lespez, Laurent ^a   Glais, Arthur ^b   Lopez Saez, José Antonio ^c   Le Drezen, Yann ^a   Tsirtsoni, Zoï ^d   Davidson, Robert ^b   Biree, Laetitia ^b   Malamidou, Dimitra ^e  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉOGRAPHIE PHYSIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^c INSTITUTO DE HISTORIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^e Ephorate of Antiquities Drama   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bronze Age; Climate change; Fluvial system; Human adaptation; Mediterranean; Mid Holocene; Neolithic; Non Pollen Palynomorphs; Pollen; South East Balkans

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOLOGY;

BALKANS; BRONZE AGE; FLUVIAL SYSTEMS; HOLOCENES; HUMAN ADAPTATION; MEDITERRANEAN; NEOLITHIC; PALYNOMORPHS; POLLEN;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NEOLITHIC; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOMORPH; POLLEN;

BALKANS; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84977912990     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2016.02.002     Document Type: Article

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