Is more precise dating of paleoindian expansion feasible?

Radiocarbon

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 337-345

  Fiedel, Stuart J ^a   Kuzmin, Yaroslav V ^b  

^a Louis Berger Group   (United States)

^b SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ICE CORE; OVERTURN; RADIOCARBON DATING; THEORETICAL STUDY; TREE RING;

NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 78049233761     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200045380     Document Type: Article

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