The cave of the monk (Ban Fa Suai, Chiang Dao wildlife sanctuary, northern Thailand)

Quaternary International

Volumn 220, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 160-173

  Zeitoun, Valéry ^a   Lenoble, Arnaud ^b   Laudet, Frédéric ^a   Thompson, Jeroen ^c   Rink, William Jack ^c   Mallye, Jean Baptiste ^b   Chinnawut, Winayalai ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d 11th Regional Office of Fine Arts Department   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; TAPHONOMY;

THAILAND;

AILUROPODA; MAMMALIA; STEGODON;

EID: 77953809260     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.11.022     Document Type: Article

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