Culture interruptions of archaeological sites in the three Gorges Region of the Yangtze River

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 243-256

  Zhang, Yun ^a   Zhu, Cheng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Archaeological site; Catastrophic events; Culture interruption; Three Gorges of Yangtze River

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CHRONOLOGY; CULTURAL HISTORY; EXCAVATION; HOLOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PREHISTORIC; STRATIGRAPHY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; THREE GORGES; YANGTZE BASIN;

EID: 34250318482     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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