Late Holocene biological records from the middens of stick-nest rats in the central Australian arid zone

Quaternary International

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-46

  Pearson, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MIDDEN; PALEOECOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA;

RATTUS;

EID: 0032841697     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1040-6182(98)00070-6     Document Type: Article

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