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The Holocene, an environmental history / Neil Roberts.

By: Roberts, Neil, 1953-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell, 1989. Description: x, 227 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 0631145753 :; 0631161783 (pbk.) :Subject(s): From 10 thousand years ago | Human ecology -- History | Paleoecology | Environmental archaeologyGenre/Form: HistoryDDC classification: 930.1 LOC classification: GF13 | .R6 1989
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).
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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 190-213.

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).