Local Holocene environmental indicators in Upper Mesopotamia: Pedogenic carbonate record vs. archaeobotanical data and archaeoclimatological models

Quaternary International

Volumn 209, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 154-162

  Riehl, Simone ^a,c   Pustovoytov, Konstantin E ^b   Hotchkiss, Sara ^c   Bryson, Reid A ^c  

^a Altere Abteilung   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CORRELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MOISTURE FLUX; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PALYNOLOGY; PEDOGENESIS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SPELEOTHEM; STABLE ISOTOPE; TREND ANALYSIS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

EURASIA; MESOPOTAMIA;

EID: 70349904978     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2008.06.012     Document Type: Article

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