Multiphase timing of hominin occupations and the paleoenvironment in Luonan Basin, Central China

Quaternary Research

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 142-147

  Lu, Huayu ^a   Zhang, Hongyan ^a   Wang, Shejiang ^b,c   Cosgrove, Richard ^b   Sun, Xuefeng ^a   Zhao, Jun ^a   Sun, Donghuai ^d   Zhao, Cunfa ^a   Shen, Chen ^e   Wei, Ming ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^d LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Central China; Loess; Luonan Basin; Paleolithic artifacts; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL CHINA; LOESS; LUONAN BASIN; PALEOLITHIC ARTIFACTS; PLEISTOCENE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; STRATIGRAPHY;

DEPOSITS;

ARTIFACT; CARBON ISOTOPE; HOMINID; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLITHIC; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE;

CHINA; LUO RIVER;

POACEAE;

EID: 79959275145     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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