Quantitative Sourcing of Slackwater Deposits at Boila Rockshelter: A Record of Lateglacial Flooding and Paleolithic Settlement in the Pindus Mountains, Northwest Greece

Geoarchaeology - An International Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 501-536

  Woodward, J C ^a   Hamlin, R H B ^a   Macklin, M G ^b   Karkanas, P ^c   Kotjabopoulou, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Ephoreia Palaeoanthropology S   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; COMPOSITE; DATA SET; FLOOD; HEINRICH EVENT; MICROMORPHOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOCARBON DATING; RIVER BASIN; TRACER;

GREECE; PINDUS MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0009920635     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.1003     Document Type: Article

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