Radiocarbon dates for pictographs in Ignatievskaya Cave, Russia: Holocene age for supposed Pleistocene fauna

Antiquity

Volumn 76, Issue 292, 2002, Pages 341-348

  Steelman, K L ^a   Rowe, M W ^a   Shirokov, V N ^b   Southon, J R ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMS radiocarbon dating; Bronze Iron Age rock art; Holocene; Palaeolithic rock art; Pictographs; Pleistocene fauna; Russia

Indexed keywords

FAUNA; HOLOCENE; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; ROCK ART;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; URALS;

EID: 0036078451     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00090426     Document Type: Article

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