The Holocene : an environmental history
- Title
- The Holocene : an environmental history / Neil Roberts.
- Published by
- Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell, 1989.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- x, 227 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Contents
- Reconstructing Holocene environments -- The Pleisticene prelude (>10,000 yr BP) -- Early Holocene adaptations (10,000-5,000 yr BP) -- The first farmers -- The taming of nature (5000-500 yr BP) -- The impact of modern times (500-0 yr BP) -- The environmental future: a Holocene perspective -- Index-Glossary. -- Technical boxes. -- Bristlecone pine calibration -- Lichenometry -- Coleoptera analysis -- Limnology -- Blytt-Sernander classification of the European Holocene -- Morphological changes in plant domestication -- Mollusca analysis -- Reconstructing past erosion rates in a lake catchment -- Diatom analysis -- Dating by short-lived isotopes (210Pb and 137Cs).
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 190-213.