The Holocene
Neil Roberts(Author)
Blackwell Publishers
Published on 11. May 1989
Book
Hardback
220 pages
978-0-631-14575-2 (ISBN)
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Description
The last 10,000 years, the post-glacial or Holocene, has seen the world's climates and environments take on their modern natural form. It has also seen the development of Homo Sapiens form hunter-gatherer to farmer to city-dweller with consequent impact on the natural environment. For the most part, this transformation of nature has not been described in written records. Therefore alternative, proxy sources of information have to be used to reconstruct past environments. Neil Roberts discusses Palaeoecological techniques such as pollen analysis and radiocarbon dating in his first chapter. He then recounts the changes in nature from the ice age to modern times using these proxy techniques. Primarily suitable for undergraduates in geography, archaeology , environmental history, science, and ecology as well as scholars of a wide range of professional interests and informed lay-readers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
50ill.50figs.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-631-14575-2 (9780631145752)
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05/1998
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Content
Reconstructing Holocene Environments; The Pleistocene Prelude (Pre 10,000 yr BP) Early Holocene Adaptations (10,000 - 5,000 yr BP); The First Farmers; The Taming of Nature (5,000 - 500 yr BP); The Impact of Modern Times (500 - 0 yr BP); A Perspective on Holocene Environmental History.