A preliminary report on the Stanton Harcourt Channel Deposits (Oxfordshire, England): Geological context, vertebrate remains and palaeolithic stone artefacts

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 397-415

  Buckingham, Christine M ^a   Roe, Derek A ^a   Scott, Katharine ^a  

^a ARC Mammoth Project   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interglacials; Middle Pleistocene; Palaeolithic artefacts; Quaternary sedimentology; Vertebrate palaeontology

Indexed keywords

INTERGLACIAL; PALAEOLITHIC ARTEFACT; PLEISTOCENE; VERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY;

UK, ENGLAND, OXFORDSHIRE, STANTON HARCOURT;

EID: 0030418347     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1417(199609/10)11:5<397::AID-JQS261>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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