The Mammal Faunas of the British Late Pleistocene

Developments in Quaternary Science

Volumn 14, Issue C, 2011, Pages 165-180

  Currant, Andrew P ^a   Jacobi, Roger ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH MUSEUM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bio stratigraphy; Late Pleistocene; Mammal assemblage zones; Ultrafiltration radiocarbon; Uranium series

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049474227     PISSN: 15710866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53597-9.00010-8     Document Type: Book

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