Middle Paleolithic occupation on a Marine Isotope Stage 5 lakeshore in the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 13-14, 2011, Pages 1555-1559

  Petraglia, Michael D ^a   Alsharekh, Abdullah M ^b   Crassard, Rémy ^c   Drake, Nick A ^d   Groucutt, Huw ^a   Parker, Adrian G ^e   Roberts, Richard G ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arabia; Optically stimulated luminescence; Paleolake; Paleolithic

Indexed keywords

ARABIA; ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE; CLOSE PROXIMITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HOMININS; INTERGLACIAL CLIMATE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; NORTH AFRICA; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; PALEOLAKE; PALEOLITHIC; RANGE EXPANSION; SAUDI ARABIA;

ISOTOPES; LUMINESCENCE;

LANDFORMS;

ARCHAEOLOGY; DESERT; DISPERSAL; GRASS; HOMINID; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; OCCUPATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PALEOLITHIC; RANGE EXPANSION; SHORE (NONMARINE); STRATIFICATION; TREE;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; NEFUD; SAUDI ARABIA;

POACEAE;

EID: 79957978207     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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