ESR at Treugol'naya Cave, Northern Caucasus Mt., Russia: Dating Russia's oldest archaeological site and paleoclimatic change in Oxygen Isotope Stage 11

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 62, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 237-245

  Blackwell, Bonnie A B ^a,b   Liang, Sisi ^b   Golovanova, Lubov V ^c   Doronichev, Vladimir B ^c   Skinner, Anne R ^a,b   Blickstein, Joel I B ^b  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b RFK Science Research Institute   (United States)

^c Laboratory of Prehistory   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Electron spin resonance (ESR) dating; Lower Paleolithic; Oxygen Isotope Stage (OIS) 11; Pebble tool cultures; Russia; Treugol'naya Cave

Indexed keywords

DENTISTRY; DEPOSITS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; OXYGEN; RADIOISOTOPES;

ISOCHRON ANALYSIS; OCCUPATION; PALEONTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS;

CAVES;

OXYGEN;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; HOMINID; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; THICKNESS;

EID: 10644263485     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2004.08.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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