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Climate Change and Human Impact on the Landscape

Studies in palaeoecology and environmental archaeology

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  • © 1993

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  1. F. M. Chambers

    1. Environmental Research Unit, Keele University, UK

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  4. Evidence for Human Impact

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-99
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    2. Earliest palynological records of human impact on the world’s vegetation

      • D. Walker, G. Singh
      Pages 101-108

    3. Vegetation change during the Mesolithic in the British Isles: some amplifications

      • I. G. Simmons
      Pages 109-118

    4. The development of high moorland on Dartmoor: fire and the influence of Mesolithic activity on vegetation change

      • Chris Caseldine, Jackie Hatton
      Pages 119-131

    5. Models of mid-Holocene forest farming for north-west Europe

      • Kevin J. Edwards
      Pages 133-145

    6. The influence of human communities on the English chalklands from the Mesolithic to the Iron Age: the molluscan evidence

      • J. G. Evans
      Pages 147-156

    7. Mesolithic, early Neolithic, and later prehistoric impacts on vegetation at a riverine site in Derbyshire, England

      • Patricia E. J. Wiltshire, Kevin J. Edwards
      Pages 157-168

    8. Holocene (Flandrian) vegetation change and human activity in the Carneddau area of upland mid-Wales

      • M. J. C. Walker
      Pages 169-183

    9. Early land use and vegetation history at Derryinver Hill, Renvyle Peninsula, Co. Galway, Ireland

      • Karen Molloy, Michael O’Connell
      Pages 185-199
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About this book

I am pleased to present this volume of invited reviews and research case studies, produced to mark the retirement of Professor A. G. Smith - one of the leading researchers in Holocene palaeoecology. A. G. Smith took his first degree at the University of Sheffield, graduating in 1951 with a first-class honours degree in Botany. His doctorate was awarded in 1956 for a study in late-Quaternary vege­ tational history, based in the Sub-Department of Quaternary Research at the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of the late Sir Harry Godwin, FRS. He then researched and taught at Queen's University, Belfast, from 1954, leading the Nuffield Quaternary Research Unit there, becoming Co-Director of the Palaeoecology Laboratory from 1964. He was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Botany (later, Plant Science) at University College, Cardiff, in 1973, and retired from the School of Pure and Applied Biology at the renamed University of Wales College, Cardiff, in August 1991. Although his principal interests have been concerned with the post-glacial environmental history of the British Isles, Professor Smith has significantly in­ fluenced many researchers elsewhere in their interpretation of biological and other evidence for human modification of the natural environment.

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  • Environmental Research Unit, Keele University, UK

    F. M. Chambers

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