Palaeoenvironmental and chronological investigations of the Magdalenian sites of Goyet Cave and Trou de Chaleux (Belgium), via stable isotope and radiocarbon analyses of horse skeletal remains

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 653-662

  Stevens, Rhiannon E ^a   Germonpré, Mietje ^b   Petrie, Cameron A ^a   O'Connell, Tamsin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bone; Carbon; Collagen; Nitrogen; Palaeoclimate; Palaeoecology; Palaeolithic; Radiocarbon dating

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARTIFACT; BONE; CARBON; CAVE; CHRONOLOGY; COLLAGEN; CULTURAL HISTORY; HORSE; INTERSTADIAL; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LATE GLACIAL; NITROGEN; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLITHIC; RADIOCARBON DATING; SKELETAL REMAINS; STABLE ISOTOPE;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; GOYET; NAMUR [BELGIUM]; WESTERN EUROPE;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 58149312969     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2008.10.008     Document Type: Article

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