Holocene glacier fluctuations and migration of Neolithic yak pastoralists into the high valleys of northwest Bhutan

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 13-14, 2009, Pages 1217-1237

  Meyer, M C ^a   Hofmann, Ch Ch ^b   Gemmell, A M D ^c   Haslinger, E ^d   Hausler H ^e   Wangda, D ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^e Center for Earth Sciences   (Austria)

^f Geological Survey of Bhutan   (Bhutan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; GLACIAL ACTIVITIES; GLACIAL CHRONOLOGIES; GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIER FLUCTUATIONS; HIMALAYA; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN COLONIZATIONS; HUMAN MIGRATIONS; HUMAN USE; ICE-DAMMED LAKES; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LOCAL INFLUENCES; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCES; PERIGLACIAL PROCESS; RADIO CARBON DATING; SEM ANALYSIS; STREAM NETWORKS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TIBETAN PLATEAUX; VALLEY FLOORS;

CHARCOAL; CLIMATOLOGY; DEBRIS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

LANDFORMS;

GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIER; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GRAZING; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MIGRATION; NEOLITHIC; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PASTORALISM; PLEISTOCENE; UNGULATE; VALLEY;

CHARCOAL; FIBER DEBRIS; GEOLOGY; ICE; LUMINESCENCE; MAPPING; METEOROLOGY; MOUNTAINS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; SUGAR; TEMPERATURE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

BOS GRUNNIENS; HORDEUM; JUNIPERUS; RHODODENDRON;

EID: 67349260003     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.12.025     Document Type: Article

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