Postglacial floodplain development and Mesolithic-Neolithic occupation in the Russian forest zone

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 229-237

  Vandenberghe, J ^a   Gracheva, R ^b   Sorokin, A ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Flooding; Floodplain; Intrinsic evolution; Mesolithic; Minino 2; Neolithic; Upper Volga; Zamostye 5

Indexed keywords

FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; GEOACCUMULATION; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; LAST DEGLACIATION; MESOLITHIC; NEOLITHIC; OCCUPATION; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PEDOGENESIS; POSTGLACIAL; SOCIAL HISTORY; VALLEY;

MOSCOW [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 77953708898     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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