The impact of the Neolithic agricultural transition in Britain: a comparison of pollen-based land-cover and archaeological 14C date-inferred population change

► Spatially-aggregated demographic and land-cover change for the whole of Britain. ► Transformed pollen records are compared with archaeological 14C date densities. ► Neolithic population growth was accompanied by decreased woodland cover. ► Human impact is the main pace-maker of mid-Holocene land-cover change.