People as an agent of environmental change
| Körperschaft: |
Association for Environmental Archaeology.
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Nicholson, R. A.
O'Connor, T. P. 1954- Dickson, Camilla A. |
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford :
Oxbow Books,
2000.
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| Umfang/Format: |
133 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Symposia of the Association for Environmental Archaeology ; no. 16
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| Online Zugang: |
Table of contents only |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Accelerated geomorphic activity and human causation - problems in proving the links in proxy records, Richard Tipping; palynological evidence from the Strymon Delta, Macedonia, Greece, M.A. Atherden et al; prehistoric copper mining and its impact on vegetational palaeoecological evidence from Mount Gabriel, Co. Cork, south-west Ireland, T.M. Mighall et al; a preliminary investigation into the use of fungal spores as anthropogenic indicators on Shetland, Andrew Hoaen and Geraint Coles; the decline of woodland in Orkney - early Neolithic to late Iron Age, Camilla Dickson; post-Iron Age vegetation history and climate change on the North York Moors, Richard Chiverell and Margaret Atherden; conservation or change? human influence on the mid-Devon landscape, C.J. Caseldine et al; remains of mites as indicators of human impact on past environments - dwelling mounds and marine incursions in the Netherlands, Jaap Schelvis; disappearance of elmid "riffle beetles" from lowland river systems in Britain - the impact of alluviation, David Smith; palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in the Central Mexican highlands - a re-appraisal of traditional theory, Georgina Endfield et al; reconstructing the ethnobotany of a depleted flora - food plant availability in the Murchison Basin, Western Australia, prior to European arrival, R. Esmee Webb; the extinction of endemic faunas in Mediterranean Island prehistory, Mark Patton; estimating the rate of Paleoindian expansion into South America, James Steele et al.
