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The Holocene : an environmental history

Title
  1. The Holocene : an environmental history / Neil Roberts.
Published by
  1. Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell, 1989.
Author
  1. Roberts, Neil, 1953-

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Description
  1. x, 227 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  1. From 10 thousand years ago
  2. Human ecology > History
  3. Paleoecology > Holocene
  4. Environmental archaeology
  5. Paleoecology
  6. Holocene Geologic Period
  7. Human ecology
  8. Holozän
  9. Palökologie
  10. Paleo-ecologie
  11. Paléoenvironnement
  12. Paléoécologie
  13. Écologie humaine > Jusqu'à 1500
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. 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
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. 190-213.