Middle and Late Pleistocene paleoscape modeling along the southern coast of South Africa

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 1382-1398

  Fisher, Erich C ^a   Bar Matthews, Miryam ^b   Jerardino, Antonieta ^c   Marean, Curtis W ^d  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL DEPOSITS; ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE; CHANGING CLIMATE; COASTAL SITES; DATA SETS; HUMAN ADAPTATION; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MODEL PREDICTION; PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SEA LEVEL HEIGHT; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SOUTH AFRICA; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES;

COASTAL ENGINEERING; FORECASTING; ISOTOPES; SEA LEVEL; STRONTIUM;

LANDFORMS;

ADAPTATION; ARCHAEOLOGY; BATHYMETRY; COASTAL ZONE; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GIS; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PREDICTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHELLFISH CULTURE; SPELEOTHEM; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

AGULHAS BANK; INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 77954819476     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.01.015     Document Type: Article

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