Climate Change and Human Impact on the Landscape
Studies in Palaeoecology and Environmental Archaeology
Description:... Part 1. Precision and Accuracy in Studies of Climatic Change and Human Impact -- 1: Precision, concepts, controversies: Alan Smith's contributions to vegetational history and palaeoecology -- 2: Forward to the past: changing approaches to Quaternary palaeoecology -- 3: Radiocarbon dating and the palynologist: a realistic approach to precision and accuracy -- 4: Great oaks from little acorns ... : precision and accuracy in Irish dendrochronology Part 2. Climatic Change on the Landscape -- 5: Peat bogs as sources of proxy climatic data: past approaches and future research -- 6: Forest response to Holocene climatic change: equilibrium or non-equilibnum -- 7: Isolating the climatic factors in early- and mid-Holocene palaeobotanical records from Scotland -- 8: Radiocarbon dating of arctic-alpine palaeosols and the reconstruction of Holocene palaeoenvironmental change. Part 3. Evidence for Human Impact -- 9: Earliest palynological records of human impact on the world's vegetation -- 10: Vegetation change during the Mesolithic in the British Isles: some amplifications -- 11: The development of high moorland on Dartmoor: fire and the influence of Mesolithic activity on vegetation change -- 12: Models of mid-Holocene forest farming for north-west Europe -- 13: The influence of human communities on the English chalklands from the Mesolithic to the Iron Age: the molluscan evidence -- 14: Mesolithic, early Neolithic, and later prehistoric impacts on vegetation at a riverine site in Derbyshire, England -- 15: Holocene (Flandrian) vegetation change and human activity in the Carneddau area of upland mid-Wales -- 16: Early land use and vegetation history at Derryinver Hill, Renvyle Peninsula, Co. Calway, Ireland. Part 4. Climatic Change and Human Impact: Relationship and Interaction --17: Rapid early-Holocene migration and high abundance of hazel (Corylus avellana L.): alternative hypotheses -- 18: The origin of blanket mire, revisited -- 19: Climatic change and human impact during the late Holocene in northern Britain -- 20: Palaeoecology of floating bogs and landscape change in the Great Lakes drainage basin of North America -- 21: Late Quaternary climatic change and human impact: commentary and conclusions.
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