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This chapter describes the present environment of Europe: topography, climate, and characteristic associations of plants, animals, and soils. It introduces the reader to the geography of the continent, develops the environmental background for the societies of the last 9,000 years, and provides a point of departure against which we can compare the environments of the more distant past.
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Shackleton, M.R., 1965, Europe: A Regional Geography, 7th ed. New York, NY, Frederick A. Praeger.
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Milisauskas, S. (2011). The Present Environment: A Geographic Summary. In: Milisauskas, S. (eds) European Prehistory. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6633-9_3
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