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The Holocene : an environmental history

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

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Description

x, 227 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 190-213.

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).

ISBN

0631145753
9780631145752
0631161783
9780631161783

LCCN

88026063

OCLC

ocm18411365
18411365
SCSB-8872189

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library