The alluvial history and sedimentary record of the priiskovoe site and its place in the paleolithic prehistory of siberia

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 616-648

  Buvit, Ian ^a   Terry, Karisa ^b   Kolosov, Viktor K ^c   Konstantinov, Mikhail V ^d  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^d TRANSBAIKAL STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ARTIFACT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HISTORICAL RECORD; PALEOLITHIC; PALEOSOL; PREHISTORIC; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SELENGA RIVER; SIBERIA; TRANSBAIKALIA;

EID: 79961027388     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: 15206548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.20368     Document Type: Article

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