Chronology of the Obi-Rakhmat grotto (Uzbekistan): First results on the dating and problems of the Paleolithic key site in Central Asia

Radiocarbon

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 549-554

  Krivoshapkin, Andrei I ^a   Kuzmin, Yaroslav V ^b   Timothy Jull, A J ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL RECORD; HOMINID; PALEOLITHIC; RADIOCARBON DATING;

CENTRAL ASIA; UZBEKISTAN;

HOMINIDAE;

EID: 78049275835     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200045586     Document Type: Article

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