A revised chronology of the lowest occupation layer of Pedra Furada Rock Shelter, Piauí, Brazil: The Pleistocene peopling of the Americas

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 21-22, 2003, Pages 2303-2310

  Santos, G M ^a,d   Bird, M I ^a   Parenti, F ^b,c   Fifield, L K ^a   Guidon, N ^c   Hausladen, P A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana   (Italy)

^c Fund Musen do Homem Americano   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CHARCOAL; COMBUSTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXIDATION;

RADIOCARBON DATING;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CHARCOAL; RADIOCARBON DATING;

BRAZIL; PIAUI; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0345167017     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(03)00205-1     Document Type: Article

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