Karst depressions as geoarchaeological archives: The palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of Zominthos (Central Crete), based on geophysical prospection, sedimentological investigations and GIS

Quaternary International

Volumn 216, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 75-92

  Siart, C ^a   Hecht, S ^a   Holzhauer, I ^a   Altherr, R ^a   Meyer, H P ^a   Schukraft, G ^a   Eitel, B ^a   Bubenzer, O ^a   Panagiotopoulos, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; COLLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GIS; HOLOCENE; KARST; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

CRETE; GREECE; MOUNT IDA; RETHYMNE;

EID: 77949487714     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.06.020     Document Type: Article

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