Pleistocene climate change, natural environments and Palaeolithic occupation of East Kazakhstan

Quaternary International

Volumn 220, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 64-87

  Chlachula, Jiri ^a  

^a TOMAS BATA UNIVERSITY IN ZLIN   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; DEGLACIATION; GLACIATION; HOLOCENE; ICE-DAMMED LAKE; NEOTECTONICS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLITHIC; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

ALTAI MOUNTAINS; ALTAY [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; KAZAKHSTAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 77953809190     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.09.011     Document Type: Article

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