The Late-glacial reoccupation of the British Isles and the Creswellian

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 631-643

  Barton, R N E ^a   Jacobi, R M ^b   Stapert, D ^c   Street, M J ^d  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d Romisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum   (Germany)

Author keywords

AMS radiocarbon chronology; Creswellian; Greenland Interstadial I; Late Upper Palaeolithic; Late glacial Interstadial

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CHRONOLOGY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE GLACIAL; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0142230484     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.772     Document Type: Article

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