The nature of megafaunal extinctions during the MIS 3-2 transition in Japan

Quaternary International

Volumn 211, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 113-122

  Norton, Christopher J ^a   Kondo, Youichi ^b   Ono, Akira ^c   Zhang, Yingqi ^d   Diab, Mark C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Nojiriko Museum   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^e Graduate School of Frontier Sciences   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; EXTINCTION; FAUNA; HERBIVORE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEONTOLOGY; QUATERNARY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

MAMMUTHUS; PALAEOLOXODON; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 71549117261     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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