Palaeogeographical reconstructions of Lake Maliq (Korça Basin, Albania) between 14,000 BP and 2000 BP

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 525-535

  Fouache, Eric ^a   Desruelles, Stéphane ^b   Magny, Michel ^c   Bordon, Amandine ^f   Oberweiler, Cécile ^d   Coussot, Céline ^h   Touchais, Gilles ^d   Lera, Petrika ^e   Lézine, Anne Marie ^f   Fadin, Lionel ^g   Roger, Rébecca ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^c University of Franche Comté   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^e Archaeological Museum   (Albania)

^f LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^g Ecole Francaise d'Athenes   (Greece)

^h Institut National des Recherches Archéologiques Préventives   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

Author keywords

Albania; Geoarchaeology; Geomorphology; GIS; Holocene; Palaeoenvironment; SRTM DEM

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GIS; HOLOCENE; LAKE LEVEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENTATION;

ALBANIA; KORCA; LAKE MALIQ;

EID: 72649102212     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.10.017     Document Type: Article

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