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  Posted by Petra (U3381859) on Saturday, 1st April 2006

  From what I understand prehistoric Britain underwent several climatic changes - pre-boreal, boreal, atlantic etc. does anybody know any good books where I can find out more about this climatic phenomena..

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  Posted by henvell (U1781664) on Saturday, 1st April 2006

  A good reference text is:
  "Climate Change in Prehistory" by William J Burroughs,2005,Cambridge University Press.

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  Posted by marduk-slayer of tiamat (U2258525) on Thursday, 6th April 2006

  any geology text or geography text for a-level upwards whould have a chapter or so on it.

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  Posted by Stoggler (U1647829) on Friday, 7th April 2006

  From what I understand prehistoric Britain underwent several climatic changes - pre-boreal, boreal, atlantic etc. does anybody know any good books where I can find out more about this climatic phenomena..Β 
  
  Aah, climatic changes in Britain, fond memories of my university degree course...!! Unfortunately I cannot remember any of my textbooks but I suspect they are largely out of date now anyway after a decade. However, a quick look on Amazon has given me these:
  
  Reconstructing Quaternary Environments - John Lowe, Mike Walker (this is more about the methodology involved)
  
  Quaternary Environments - Martin Williams, David Dunkerley, Pat de Deckker, Peter Kershaw, John Chappell
  
  The Holocene: An Environmental History - Neil Roberts
  
  The Two-mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change and Our Future - Richard B. Alley (this is about the ice cores taken from the Greenland ice cap which has Oxygen isotope studies done on it to reconstruct former global climatic conditions - looks good actually, tempted to have a look myself).
  
  There are a number of academic journals on the subject too, the one that immediately springs to mind is "The Holocene". If you live near a university that does geography or geology (especially which studies past climates) with a good library then you may find copies there, along with other texts on the subject.

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