Day, Petra; Tinner, Willy (2012). Holocene: Holocene Environments in Europe. In: Silberman, Neil Asher (ed.) The Oxford Companion To Archaeology (2 ed.). Oxford Reference. Oxford: Oxford University Press 10.1093/acref/9780199735785.001.0001
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The environment of Europe changed dramatically during the Holocene due to both natural and human factors, the relative importance of which varied through time. At the end of the last Ice Age (ca. 17,000 BC), a large part of northern Europe was covered by ice sheets, while much of the area farther south experienced cold conditions and supported open herb-dominated vegetation (e.g., Artemisia, Chenopodiaceae) or open woodlands of birch (Betula) and pine (Pinus). Pockets of temperate forests with oak (Quercus), linden or lime (Tilia), elm (Ulmus),
maple (Acer), ash (Fraxinus), and fir (Abies) were restricted to southern Europe.
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Book Section (Encyclopedia Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS) > Palaeoecology 08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Tinner, Willy |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 580 Plants (Botany) |
ISBN: |
978-0-19-973921-9 |
Series: |
Oxford Reference |
Publisher: |
Oxford University Press |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Peter Alfred von Ballmoos-Haas |
Date Deposited: |
30 Jan 2018 09:00 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:08 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1093/acref/9780199735785.001.0001 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Agriculture; elm decline; Europe; megafaunal extinction; paleoenvironmental reconstruction; Plestocene; Somerset levels; Star Carr. |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.106536 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/106536 |
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