Dating a flautist? Using ESR (electron spin resonance) in the mousterian cave deposits at Divje Babe I, Slovenia

Geoarchaeology - An International Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 507-536

  Lau, Beverly ^a   Blackwell, Bonnie A B ^b   Schwarcz, Henry P ^c   Turk, Ivan ^d   Blickstein, Joel I ^b  

^a CSD 25   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Slovenske Akademije Znanosti U   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ARCHAEOLOGY; CAVE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; INHOMOGENEITY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERSTADIAL; LAST INTERGLACIAL; NEANDERTHAL; TOOTH;

IDRIJA; SLOVENIA;

EID: 0005969342     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6548(199709)12:6<507::AID-GEA2>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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