Early-middle Holocene land snail shell stable isotope record from Grotta di Latronico 3 (southern Italy)

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1347-1359

  Colonese, André C ^a   Zanchetta, Giovanni ^b   Dotsika, Elisabeth ^c   Drysdale, Russell N ^d   Fallick, Anthony E ^e   Grifoni Cremonesi, Renata ^b   Manganelli, Giuseppe ^f  

^a GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Archaeological succession; Central Mediterranean; Land snail shells; Palaeoclimate; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOLOCENE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; RAINFALL; SNAIL; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ITALY;

CORNU ASPERSUM; EOBANIA VERMICULATA; GASTROPODA; HELIX; MARMORANA; POMATIAS ELEGANS; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 78649623572     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1429     Document Type: Article

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