<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kouli, K.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vegetation development and human activities in Attiki (SE Greece) during the last 5,000 years</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vegetation History and Archaeobotany</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84864822289&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=b92e4d8c1e07a8b49992706b9695c660</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">21</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">267 - 278</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Pollen assemblages recovered from a 5 m&amp;nbsp;sediment core from the Vravron coastal marsh suggest a&amp;nbsp;close correlation between vegetation development and&amp;nbsp;human presence in Attica, and provide the first complete&amp;nbsp;record of middle to late Holocene vegetation history.&amp;nbsp;Correlation of pollen with archaeological data attempts to&amp;nbsp;decode the man–environment relations of the past, within&amp;nbsp;the context of the known climatic variability of the mid late&amp;nbsp;Holocene, in the vicinity of ancient Athens, an area of&amp;nbsp;high historical significance. The pollen record of Vravron&amp;nbsp;denotes a rather variable landscape where open Mediterranean&amp;nbsp;evergreen pine woods alternated with maquis&amp;nbsp;shrublands and grasslands, where human activities and&amp;nbsp;climate have left their imprints on vegetation. During the&amp;nbsp;last 5,000 years agricultural practices displayed several&amp;nbsp;variations: cereal cultivation appears more intense during&amp;nbsp;the Bronze Age, especially in the Mycenaean, while a&amp;nbsp;spread of &lt;em&gt;Olea&lt;/em&gt; is observed during Geometric to Classical&amp;nbsp;times. The gradual abandonment of &lt;em&gt;Olea&lt;/em&gt; cultivation evidenced&amp;nbsp;in our pollen diagram came as a result of the displacement&amp;nbsp;of human activities in the interior of Mesogaia&amp;nbsp;in Hellenistic and Roman times. &lt;em&gt;Olea&lt;/em&gt; and cereal cultivation&amp;nbsp;intensification is observed again during the Mesobyzantine&amp;nbsp;period. In the upper part of the core evidence of&amp;nbsp;intense soil erosion and expansion of Vravron wetland was&amp;nbsp;recorded, coinciding with the Little Ice Age climatic event&amp;nbsp;and the introduction of Arvanites populations in the area.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4-5</style></issue><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cited By (since 1996):8Export Date: 22 October 2014</style></notes></record></records></xml>