A revised chronology for the adoption of agriculture in the Southern Levant and the role of Lateglacial climatic change

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 98-108

  Blockley, S P E ^a   Pinhasi, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN CALIBRATION; CALIBRATION CURVES; CLEANING PROCESS; CLIMATIC CHANGES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXTS; GREENLAND; HIGH PRECISION; HOLOCENES; ICE CORE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LATE QUATERNARY; LATEGLACIAL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; TIME RANGE; TIME-SCALES; WET AND DRY; YOUNGER DRYAS;

AGRICULTURE; CALIBRATION; FLEXIBLE COUPLINGS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AGRICULTURAL CHANGE; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CULTURAL CHANGE; DATA SET; DATABASE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRIP; HUNTER-GATHERER; ICE CORE; LATE GLACIAL; NEOLITHIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; SPELEOTHEM; WETTING-DRYING CYCLE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

EUROPE; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 78650518948     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.09.021     Document Type: Article

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