Climate Change and Human Impact on the Landscape: Studies in Palaeoecology and Environmental ArchaeologyF. M. Chambers 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. |
Contents
changing approaches to Quaternary | 13 |
a realistic approach | 23 |
55690 | 30 |
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agriculture alder Alnus archaeological basin Betula birch Birks Black Ridge Brook blanket bog blanket mire blanket peat Blytt-Sernander British Isles Bronze Age Calluna Carneddau Caseldine cereal charcoal clearance climatic change Corylus curves Cyperaceae Dartmoor deposits depth early Holocene Ecology elm decline environmental Europe evidence fire Flandrian floating bogs forest fraction glacial glacier Gramineae grassland Haugabreen hazel Holocene horizon human activity human impact Huntley indicate Ireland Iversen Journal Lake land landscape late-glacial Little Ice Age macrofossils Matthews Mesolithic Moore moraine Moss Neolithic northern palaeobotanical palaeoecology palaeosols palynological period phase Phytologist Pilcher pine Pinswell Pinus plant podsol pollen analysis pollen diagrams pollen record post-glacial proxy climatic Quaternary Quercus radiocarbon dates regional Rumex samples Scotland sediments Simmons Smith species Sphagnum stratigraphy studies suggests surface taxa tion tree tree-ring Ulmus upland vegetational change vegetational history woodland zone