Corrigendum to: Neolithic to Bronze Age (4850-3450 cal. BP) fire management of the Alpine Lower Engadine landscape (Switzerland) to establish pastures and cereal fields (The Holocene, (2017), 27, 2, (181-196), 10.1177/0959683616658523);Neolithic to Bronze Age (4850–3450 cal. BP) fire management of the Alpine Lower Engadine landscape (Switzerland) to establish pastures and cereal fields

Holocene

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 181-196

  Dietre, Benjamin ^a   Walser, Christoph ^b,c   Kofler, Werner ^a   Kothieringer, Katja ^c   Hajdas, Irka ^d   Lambers, Karsten ^c,e   Reitmaier, Thomas ^b   Haas, Jean Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Hunting and Fishing Services of the Canton of Grisons   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

European Alps; Holocene fire ecology; Neolithic to Bronze Age fire management; pollen and non pollen palynomorphs; prehistoric crop cultivation and pastoral activities; statistical cross correlations

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BRONZE AGE; CEREAL; CULTIVATION; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; DEFORESTATION; FIRE HISTORY; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FUNGUS; IRON AGE; MEDIEVAL; NEOLITHIC; PALYNOMORPH; PASTORALISM; PASTURE; RECONSTRUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALPS; ENGADIN; GRAUBUNDEN; SWITZERLAND;

FUNGI; GELASINOSPORA;

EID: 85011807457     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683617726651     Document Type: Erratum

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