RESULTS OF ANTHRACOLOGICAL STUDIES IN NEA R-EAST

Authors
WILLCOX G
Citation
G. Willcox, RESULTS OF ANTHRACOLOGICAL STUDIES IN NEA R-EAST, Bulletin de la Societe botanique de France. Actualites botaniques, 139(2-4), 1992, pp. 539-551
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Plant Sciences
Journal title
Bulletin de la Societe botanique de France. Actualites botaniques → ACNP
ISSN journal
01811789
Volume
139
Issue
2-4
Year of publication
1992
Pages
539 - 551
Database
ISI
SICI code
0181-1789(1992)139:2-4<539:ROASIN>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
Recent data from charcoal analysis of Near and Middle Eastern sites In dicate that the forest/steppe zone penetrated into what is now steppe during the Neolithic and Bronze Age. In Mesopotamia we have definite e vidence for the importation of timber. It is not until the later histo rical periods that we begin to see evidence for deforestation, but it is difficult to separate the role of man from that of climatic change as a cause of the change in vegetation.