The Bronze Age climate and environment of Britain
The Bronze Age climate and environment of Britain
Over the last twenty years there have been tremendous advances in our knowledge of climate
change in later British prehistory from a wide variety of proxy-climate sources. This chapter
will summarise our present understanding for the period 2000-500 BC and highlight the areas
in which further research is required. A secondary aim is to review how much we can infer
from these proxy-climate records concerning the wider environment, including the day-today
environment of Bronze Age peoples and the stresses imposed upon their societies. This
area is far more subjective but lies at the heart of serious, i.e. non-superficial, attempts to
relate aspects of change in Bronze Age society to environmental change.
climate change, Bronze Age, palaeoecology, peat stratigraphy
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Brown, Tony
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1 October 2008
Brown, Tony
c51f9d3e-02b0-47da-a483-41c354e78fab
Brown, Tony
(2008)
The Bronze Age climate and environment of Britain.
Bronze Age Review, 1 (11), .
Abstract
Over the last twenty years there have been tremendous advances in our knowledge of climate
change in later British prehistory from a wide variety of proxy-climate sources. This chapter
will summarise our present understanding for the period 2000-500 BC and highlight the areas
in which further research is required. A secondary aim is to review how much we can infer
from these proxy-climate records concerning the wider environment, including the day-today
environment of Bronze Age peoples and the stresses imposed upon their societies. This
area is far more subjective but lies at the heart of serious, i.e. non-superficial, attempts to
relate aspects of change in Bronze Age society to environmental change.
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Published date: 1 October 2008
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climate change, Bronze Age, palaeoecology, peat stratigraphy
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