Chronological study of archaeological sites and environmental change around 2600 BP in the Eurasian steppe belt (Uyuk Valley, Tuva Republic)

Geochronometria

Volumn 24, Issue , 2005, Pages 97-107

  Zaitseva, G I ^a   Chugunov, K V ^b   Bokovenko, N A ^a   Dergachev, V I ^c   Dirksen, V G ^d   Van Geel, B ^e   Koulkova, M A ^a   Lebedeva, L M ^a   Sementsov, A A ^a   Van Der Plicht, J ^f   Scott, E M ^g   Vasiliev, S S ^c   Lokiiov, K I ^h   Bourova, N ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE   (Russian Federation)

^b The State Hermitage Museum   (Russian Federation)

^c IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF VOLCANOLOGY AND SEISMOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^h A P KARPINSKY RUSSIAN GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Calibration curve; Environmental changes; Geochemical analysis; Pollen analysis; Radiocarbon chronology; Scythian monuments

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952710754     PISSN: 17338387     EISSN: 18971695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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