Landscape transformations and human responses c. 11,500-c. 4500 years ago

• Main Authors: Rabett, Ryan J, Barker, Graeme, Barton, Huw, Hunt, Chris, Lloyd-Smith, Lindsay, Paz, Victor, Piper, Philip, Premathilake, Rasmathiri, Rushworth, Garry, Stephens, Mark, Szabo, Katherine
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Research Online 2013
• Subjects: Medicine and Health Sciences; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Greenland; Rasmussen; Ice cap
• Online Access: https://ro.uow.edu.au/smhpapers/1752

This chapter discusses the character of human activity at Niah after the transition to the Holocene, the modern climate era. The beginning of the Holocene was marked by an abrupt warming in the palaeotemperature records of the Greenland ice cap at 11,700 BP (Rasmussen et al. 2006; as in the case of...