Age and the palaeoenvironment of the West Ukrainian palaeolithic: the case of Velykyi Glybochok multi-cultural site

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1376-1389

  Boguckyj, Andrij B ^a   Łanczont, Maria ^b   Łacka, Bozena ^c   Madeyska, Teresa ^c   Sytnyk, Oleksandr ^d  

^a IVAN FRANKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LVIV   (Ukraine)

^b MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Loess soil sequences; Palaeoenvironment reconstruction; Palaeolithic chronology; Podolia Upland; Tovtry Ridge

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CARBON ISOTOPE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LITHOLOGY; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MESOLITHIC; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLITHIC; PEDOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; STABLE ISOTOPE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; PODOLIA; TERNOPOL; UKRAINE;

MOLLUSCA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 67349110807     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.01.027     Document Type: Article

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