Geoarchaeology of the Kostenki-Borshchevo sites, Don River Valley, Russia

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 181-228

  Holliday, Vance T ^a   Hoffecker, John F ^b   Goldberg, Paul ^c   Macphail, Richard I ^d   Forman, Steven L ^e   Anikovich, Mikhail ^f   Sinitsyn, Andrei ^f  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CAMPANIAN; CHERNOZEM; LOESS; MOLLISOL; PALEOLITHIC; PALEOSOL; VOLCANIC ASH;

BORSHCHEVO; DON BASIN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; RUSSIAN PLAIN; VORONEZH; VORONEZH [RUSSIAN FEDERATION];

EID: 33847047783     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: 15206548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.20163     Document Type: Article

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