The Campanian Ignimbrite and Codola tephra layers: Two temporal/stratigraphic markers for the Early Upper Palaeolithic in southern Italy and eastern Europe

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 208-226

  Giaccio, Biagio ^a,c   Isaia, Roberto ^b,c   Fedele, Francesco G ^b,c   Di Canzio, Emanuele ^c,d   Hoffecker, John ^c,e   Ronchitelli, Annamaria ^c,f   Sinitsyn, Andrey A ^c,g   Anikovich, Mikhail ^c,g   Lisitsyn, Sergey N ^c,g   Popov, Vasil V ^c,h  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b OSSERVATORIO VESUVIANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^g INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE   (Russian Federation)

^h INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Campanian Ignimbrite; Codola Plinian eruption; Early Upper Palaeolithic; MIS3 climatic cultural changes; south eastern Europe

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; CAVES; COASTAL ZONES; CORRELATION METHODS; INNOVATION; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY; VEGETATION; VOLCANOES;

CAMPANIAN IGNIMBRITE; CODOLA PLINIAN ERUPTION; EARLY UPPER PALAEOLITHIC; MIS3 CLIMATIC/CULTURAL CHANGES; SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE;

LANDFORMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTURAL CHANGE; IGNIMBRITE; LAST GLACIAL; LITHOLOGY; MARKER BED; PALEOLITHIC; PLINIAN ERUPTION; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

BORSHCHEVO; BULGARIA; CAMPANIA [ITALY]; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; KOSTENKI; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VORONEZH [RUSSIAN FEDERATION];

PLINIA;

EID: 54049120281     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2007.10.007     Document Type: Article

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