Quaternary fluvial and eolian deposits on the Belan river, India: paleoclimatic setting of Paleolithic to Neolithic archeological sites over the past 85,000 years

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 391-410

  Gibling, M R ^a   Sinha, R ^b   Roy, N G ^b   Tandon, S K ^c   Jain, M ^d  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROPS; CULTIVATION; GROUNDWATER; LUMINESCENCE; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

EOLIAN DEPOSITS; MESOLITHIC HABITATION; PALEOCLIMATIC ANALYSIS; PALEOCLIMATIC SETTING;

DEPOSITS;

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; BEDROCK; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NEOLITHIC; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLITHIC; RADIOCARBON DATING; RICE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ASIA; BELAN VALLEY; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 39149113121     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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