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Abstract

This paper introduces a special issue on The Changing Face of the Mediterranean: Land Cover, Demography, and Environmental Change, which brings together up-to-date regional or thematic perspectives on major long-term trends in Mediterranean human–environment relations. Particularly, important insights are provided by palynology to reconstruct past vegetation and land cover, and archaeology to establish long-term demographic trends, but with further significant input from palaeoclimatology, palaeofire research and geomorphology. Here, we introduce the rationale behind this pan-Mediterranean research initiative, outline its major sources of evidence and method, and describe how individual submissions work to complement one another.

Publication Date

2019-02-08

Publication Title

Holocene

Volume

29

Issue

5

ISSN

0959-6836

Acceptance Date

2018-12-29

Deposit Date

2024-06-04

Embargo Period

2019-02-16

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