"Mind the gap": Caves, radiocarbon sequences, and the mesolithic-neolithic transition in Europe - Lessons from the Mala Triglavca Rockshelter Site

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 398-416

  Mlekuž, Dimitrij ^a   Budja, Mihael ^a   Payton, Robert ^b   Bonsall, Clive ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVE; DISTURBANCE; IMMIGRANT; MESOLITHIC; NEOLITHIC; POPULATION DECLINE; RADIOCARBON DATING;

SLOVENIA;

EID: 52649083619     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: 15206548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.20220     Document Type: Article

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