Paper II - Dirt, dates and DNA: OSL and radiocarbon chronologies of perennially frozen sediments in Siberia, and their implications for sedimentary ancient DNA studies

Boreas

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 417-445

  Arnold, Lee J ^a,h   Roberts, Richard G ^a   Macphee, Ross D E ^b   Haile, James S ^c   Brock, Fiona ^d   Möller, Per ^e   Froese, Duane G ^f   Tikhonov, Alexei N ^g   Chivas, Allan R ^a   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^c   Willerslev, Eske ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^g ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^h CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; DNA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRESERVATION; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY;

KRASNOYARSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA; TAYMYR PENINSULA;

EID: 79959541010     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00181.x     Document Type: Article

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