Climate and pre-Columbian settlement at Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe, northeastern Caribbean

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 271-280

  Beets, C J ^a   Troelstra, S R ^a   Grootes, P M ^b   Nadeau, M J ^b   van der Borg, K ^b   de Jong, A F M ^c   Hofman, C L ^d   Hoogland, M L P ^d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; RECONSTRUCTION; SEASONALITY; SNAIL; VEGETATION COVER;

GUADELOUPE; LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES];

EID: 33644917415     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: 15206548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.20096     Document Type: Article

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