Climate, environment, and humans in North America's Great Basin during the Younger Dryas, 12,900-11,600 calendar years ago

Quaternary International

Volumn 242, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 479-501

  Goebel, Ted ^a   Hockett, Bryan ^b   Adams, Kenneth D ^c   Rhode, David ^c   Graf, Kelly ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT   (United States)

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; DIET; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LITHIC FRAGMENT; MATERIAL CULTURE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURE; SUBSISTENCE; VEGETATION COVER; YOUNGER DRYAS;

GREAT BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANATIDAE; ANIMALIA; ANTILOCAPRIDAE; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; ARTIODACTYLA; AVES; CACTACEAE; CENTROCERCUS UROPHASIANUS; HEXAPODA; LEPORIDAE; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS; OVIS CANADENSIS; POACEAE;

EID: 80052400694     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.03.043     Document Type: Article

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