A global perspective on the spatiotemporal pattern of the Late Pleistocene human and woolly mammoth radiocarbon record

Quaternary International

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-81

  Ugan, Andrew ^a   Byers, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MAMMOTH; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; SIBERIA;

MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS;

EID: 55049135975     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.09.035     Document Type: Article

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