The Canadian archaeological radiocarbon database (CARD): Archaeological 14C dates in North America and their paleoenvironmental Context

Radiocarbon

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 371-394

  Gajewski, K ^a   Munoz, S ^a   Peros, M ^a   Viau, A ^a   Morlan, R ^a,b   Betts, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Ontario History at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and Chair of the Canadian Nursing History Collection Working Group   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCHAEOLOGY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CIVILIZATION; DATABASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISSOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOACCUMULATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; LANDSCAPE; MIGRATION; MUSEUM; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOCARBON DATING; TAPHONOMY; VULNERABILITY; WOODLAND;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 79958106910     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200056630     Document Type: Article

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