| Title: |
Climate deterioration and land-use change in the first millennium BC:
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| Subtitle: |
perspectives from the British palynological record |
| Issue: |
J Archaeol Sci 33 (10) |
| Series: |
Journal of Archaeological Science
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| Volume: |
33
(10)
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| Page Start/End: |
1381 - 1395 |
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| Publication Type: |
Journal
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| Abstract: |
The paper presents an evaluation of seventy-five pollen sequences spanning the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Britain to assess whether climatic deterioration was sufficient to cause widespread land abandonment. The results provide no evidence for wholesale land-use change at this time; the overall picture is one of continuity of land use or even increased agricultural activity. There are, however, hints of regional variability, with a greater tendency to abandonment of upland areas in Wales, and signs of woodland regeneration in agriculturally productive areas of lowland central southern England. The latter pattern may reflect a combination of rising ground-water levels affecting local land-use in the immediate vicinity of the mires which provide the source of the pollen data, against a backdrop of regional-scale social and economic changes at the Bronze Age--Iron Age transition. |
| Year of Publication: |
2006
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| Subjects / Periods: |
| Bronze Ageiron Age (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Early Iron Age (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Late Bronze Age (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| First Millennium Bc (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Pollen (Auto Detected Subject) |
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| Source: |
BIAB
(The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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| Created Date: |
12 Jun 2007 |
