Rapid climate change in the Upper Palaeolithic: The record of charcoal conifer rings from the Gravettian site of Dolní Věstonice, Czech Republic

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 15-16, 2011, Pages 1948-1964

  Beresford Jones, David ^a   Taylor, Sean ^a   Paine, Clea ^a   Pryor, Alexander ^a   Svoboda, Jiří ^b,c   Jones, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c Institute of Archaeology   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Archaeobotany; Charcoal; Climate change; Gravettian; Micromorphology; Tree rings; Upper Palaeolithic

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOBOTANY; GRAVETTIAN; MICROMORPHOLOGIES; TREE RINGS; UPPER-PALAEOLITHIC;

CHARCOAL; ECOLOGY; FLOTATION; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CHARCOAL; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; FOSSIL RECORD; MICROMORPHOLOGY; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUATERNARY; TREE RING; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 79960105784     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.04.021     Document Type: Article

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