Interpreting charcoal in New Zealand's palaeoenvironment-What do those charcoal fragments really tell us?

Quaternary International

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 122-128

  Butler, Kevin ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CHARCOAL; DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 44649114162     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.09.026     Document Type: Article

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