The cave of Theopetra, Kalambaka: Radiocarbon evidence for 50,000 years of human presence

Radiocarbon

Volumn 43, Issue 2 PART II, 2001, Pages 1029-1048

  Facorellis, Yorgos ^a,b   Kyparissi Apostolika, Nina ^b   Maniatis, Yannis ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b Ephoreia Paleoanthropol Speleology   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; CHARCOAL; LIMESTONE;

CAVE; PALEOCLIMATE; PREHISTORIC; RADIOCARBON DATING; SKELETAL REMAINS; STRATIGRAPHY;

ARCHEOLOGY; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FIRE; GREECE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; PLEISTOCENE; ROCK; SKELETON; STRATIGRAPHY; TIME;

GREECE;

EID: 0035572247     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0033822200041692     Document Type: Article

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