Last glacial megafaunal death assemblage and early human occupation at Lake Menindee, southeastern Australia

Quaternary Research

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 332-341

  Cupper, Matthew L ^a   Duncan, Jacqui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aeolian dunes; AMS radiocarbon dating; Archaeology; Australia; Climate change; Geomorphology; Last glacial aridity; Megafaunal extinction; Murray Darling Basin; Optically stimulated luminescence dating

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; FAUNA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; LAST GLACIAL; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOCLIMATE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MENINDEE LAKES; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; NEW SOUTH WALES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA; RODENTIA;

EID: 33749628209     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

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