Post-Clovis survival of American Mastodon in the southern Great Lakes Region of North America

Quaternary Research

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 359-363

  Woodman, Neal ^a   Beavan Athfield, Nancy ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Accelerator mass spectrometer; Extinction; Indiana; Mammut; Paleoindian; Radiocarbon

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; EXTINCTION; MAMMAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SURVIVAL;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MAMMUT; MAMMUT AMERICANUM;

EID: 70350017866     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2009.06.009     Document Type: Article

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