Vikings, peat formation and settlement abandonment: A multi-method chronological approach from Shetland

2019/03/18 by Graeme T. Swindles, Zoe Outram, Catherine M. Batt +13 · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Archaeology #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Chronology #Geography #Geology #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Hearth #Human settlement #Oceanography #Paleontology #Peat #Period (music) #Physical geography #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Radiocarbon dating #Settlement (finance) #Shetland #Tephra #Tephrochronology #Volcano

paper · doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.02.026

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