An almost one million year long (Early to Late Pleistocene) small mammal succession from the archaeological layers of Kozarnika Cave in Northern Bulgaria

CFS Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg

Volumn , Issue 259, 2007, Pages 79-92

  Popov, Vasil V ^a   Marinska, Margarita ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Correlations; Human settlement; Late Biharian; Toringian; Voles

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CORRELATION; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SMALL MAMMAL; SUCCESSION; TAXONOMY;

BALKANS; BULGARIA; CARPATHIAN BASIN; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ARVICOLA; ARVICOLA TERRESTRIS; MAMMALIA; MIMOMYS; MURIDAE;

EID: 38349168110     PISSN: 03414116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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