Human-caused stratigraphic mixing of a coastal hawaiian midden during prehistory: Implications for interpreting cultural deposits

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 527-540

  Khaweerat, Sasiphan ^a   Weisler, Marshall ^a   Zhao, Jian xin ^a   Feng, Yue xing ^a   Yu, Kefu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CORAL; CORRELATION; DATA INTERPRETATION; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PREHISTORIC; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRATIGRAPHY; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; THORIUM ISOTOPE;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; POLYNESIA;

EID: 77957327953     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: 15206548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.20323     Document Type: Article

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