Subboreal
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Subboreal
- A climactic period that is a subdivision of the Holocene epoch running from approximately 3710 to 450 BCE.
- 1955, Willem van Zeist, Pollen analytical investigations in the northern Netherlands:
- According to Iversen the steep decline of Hedera must be effected by a change of climate, viz. a fall in winter temperatures which would be characteristic of the Subboreal time.
- 2006, E. M. Scott, Andrey Yu. Alekseev, Ganna Zaitseva, Impact of the Environment on Human Migration in Eurasia, →ISBN:
- The people had a significant effect on the vegetation in the Subboreal (accelerated replacement of deciduous trees by Picea).
- 2014, R. Fantechi, N.S. Margaris, Desertification in Europe, →ISBN:
- Results obtained from disciplines as varied as pollen analysis, geomorphology and archeology point at more humid and cool climate for the beginning of the Subboreal (5.500 – +/- 4.000 BP) (28) (32) (18) in the Levant.