Comments on Graf, Journal of Archaeological Science 36, 2009 " "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly": evaluating the radiocarbon chronology of the middle and late Upper Paleolithic in the Enisei River valley, south-central Siberia"

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2730-2733

  Kuzmin, Yaroslav V ^a  

^a SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Radiocarbon chronology; Siberia; Upper Paleolithic; Yenisei River basin

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOLITHIC; RADIOCARBON DATING;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA; YENISEI RIVER;

EID: 70349783790     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.08.012     Document Type: Article

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