Human responses to the Younger Dryas in Japan

Quaternary International

Volumn 242, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 416-433

  Nakazawa, Yuichi ^a   Iwase, Akira ^b   Akai, Fumito ^c   Izuho, Masami ^b  

^a Zao Board of Education Enda   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Kagoshima Board of Education   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; HUNTER-GATHERER; LATE GLACIAL; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RADIOCARBON DATING; SURVIVAL; VEGETATION HISTORY; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; JAPAN;

EID: 80052416741     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.12.026     Document Type: Article

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